USA Two years after the assault on the Capitol: "This could happen again"
The family business of former US President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, was fined this Friday in New York with
a maximum of 1.6 million dollars for
financial and tax fraud, the Manhattan prosecutor's office announced in a statement.
The group of the American billionaire, a candidate for the Republican Party's nomination for the 2024 presidential elections,
was being tried for tax fraud and falsification of accounting statements
, in particular with the aim of hiding from the tax authorities the financial compensation of some top executives.
This is the first criminal case for the former president's group, which includes golf clubs, luxury hotels and real estate.
The Trump Organization expects an even larger civil trial in 2023
in a different financial fraud case.
"Today, former President Trump's companies were fined the maximum penalties allowed by law after historic convictions totaling 17 felonies," US Attorney
Alvin Bragg
said in a statement.
Specifically, two of the companies in the group, Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation, were accused of
having granted economic or in-kind benefits to senior executives
, hiding them from the tax authorities to avoid paying taxes, between 2005 and 2018.
Among them, a former financial director of the company,
Allen Weisselberg
, who has long been close to Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to 15 charges and was sentenced Tuesday in the same case to five months in prison and more than two million dollars. of fine.
Weisselberg, 75, who started working in 1973 as an accountant for Donald Trump's father, left handcuffed for Rikers Island prison to serve his sentence.
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