The Trump Organization Indicted
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Manhattan district attorney and the New York attorney general's office have issued an indictment against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg. It was, shall we say, not the indictment that many people who imagined accountability for Donald Trump would have prayed for or would have expected. It focuses on under-the-table compensation for senior executives—one senior executive in particular. To discuss it all, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic; Daniel Hemel, a tax law expert at the University of Chicago; and Rebecca Roiphe of the New York Law School, who is an expert on prosecutions and politicization and a veteran of the New York office that brought the case.
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| 1:09.0 | It's the responsibility of the IRS to audit the president every year. |
| 1:14.0 | Trump was in years that were covered by those audits, |
| 1:17.0 | writing personal checks to pay for the tuition of Weiselberg's grandkids tuition. |
| 1:23.0 | So this suggests that that audit wasn't very thorough. |
| 1:27.0 | And one of the original reasons for focusing on Trump's tax returns |
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