United States: the Trump Organization and its CFO indicted by justice
The Trump Tower in New York where the headquarters of the Trump Organization are located (illustrative image).
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The Trump Organization, the family group of Donald Trump, and its financial director will be indicted this Thursday, July 1 for tax crimes by prosecutors in New York, say several American newspapers, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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According to the
Wall Street Journal
, the
New York Times
and the
Washington Post
, the indictment relates to benefits in kind granted to the financial director of the holding, Allen Weisselberg, loyal among the faithful of Donald Trump, and presumed not declared to the tax authorities. Allen Weisselberg is expected to be brought before a judge on Thursday, who will serve him on the charges against him, according to US media. The indictment should then be made public.
The former US president and members of his family should not be worried, at least initially, by prosecutors who have been investigating the real estate company for two years, which also operates luxury hotels and golf clubs.
The indictment of Allen Weisselberg is believed to be aimed at putting pressure on him to agree to collaborate with investigators to bring more evidence to the prosecution.
Asked several weeks ago to determine whether prosecution could indeed be brought, a grand jury gave the green light to Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance to move forward, according to the three dailies.
A setback for Trump
An accountant by training, Allen Weisselberg, 73, spent most of his career in the Trump family's real estate empire, which he joined in 1973. When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, he had been tasked with managing the Trump Organization with the two sons of the new president, Eric and Donald Jr.
These charges, if they are confirmed, would be
a setback for Donald Trump
who suggests that he could be a candidate for the presidential election of 2024. He remains very present on the political scene, remains the strong man of the Republican Party and has resumed last week the major meetings that have made its trademark.
The former president, now domiciled in Florida, had again qualified Monday these investigations of the justice of New York of "
continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time
".
He also accused Democratic prosecutors of being "
desperate
" to hamper his political ambitions, "
going so far as to commit professional misconduct
."
(
With
AFP)
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