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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump Org. guilty of tax fraud; Manhattan DA joins on conviction

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Tuesday, December 12 and reports on the Trump Organization found guilty on all 17 counts in the NY tax fraud case. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg joins on the breaking news. Plus, Michael Cohen on the conviction, and Chai Komanduri and Tia Mitchell join on the GA runoff. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

I am Ari Melbert. We're watching these two big stories. Polls in Georgia close within the hour.

0:05.0

We begin now with continuing coverage of some major legal breaking news.

0:11.1

Guilty. Guilty on all charges. That is the verdict in the Trump Ord trial. A jury has now convicted the entire company that came in late today of every charge leveled in the case.

0:22.8

That's criminal tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying records.

0:26.3

This is a blow to Trump's entire company to his financial standing and to how that company may try to do business in the future.

0:33.3

Now, if you've followed this here, if you're one of these Americans who's watched American news and wondered, when will there ever be accountability for what looks like a long trail

0:41.8

of Trump misconduct, malfeasance, and, as seen today, convicted illegal activities, well,

0:47.8

you might know some of the path. Let's just go through it briefly. The path to this verdict

0:51.4

really took off when a former Trump lawyer and Trump

0:55.2

org executive, Michael Cohen first publicly blew the whistle on what he alleged was financial

1:00.3

misconduct and testimony before Congress. Now, whatever you think of that path,

1:05.9

and whatever you think of Mr. Cohen, who ultimately also went to prison for other convicted crimes related to working

1:13.4

for Donald Trump, the fact is he made those allegations in public, he made them under oath,

1:17.9

and that's the kind of thing that then investigators, prosecutors look at, and they have to

1:22.5

make an individual determination over whether to act on that.

1:25.7

Well, act they did.

1:27.3

The DA's office pursued that case

1:28.9

based in part on Mr. Cohen's information, which they found to be both credible and provable,

1:33.9

because you've got to get a jury on board. And they convicted Donald Trump's top money man,

1:38.1

CFO Alan Weisselberg. That was just this past August, which led to his testimony

1:42.8

against the entire Trump organization in this case.

1:46.6

It also got him a reduced prison sentence.

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