Trump Organization, CFO Are Criminally Charged. What Does It Mean For Trump?

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump's family business and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been criminally charged by the Manhattan district attorney's office in a case involving alleged tax-related crimes. The former president was not charged, but it's his name on the business. How could this impact him?

This episode: Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and journalist Andrea Bernstein (author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power).

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.9	I'm Susan Davis.
0:06.9	I cover Congress.
0:07.9	And I'm Ryan Lucas.
0:08.9	I cover the Justice Department.
0:09.9	And it is 4.12 p.m. on Thursday, July 1st.
0:13.5	And this afternoon, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office charged the Trump Organization
0:17.7	and its chief financial officer, Alan Weiselberg, for alleged tax crimes.
0:22.6	Joining us to talk through the case is Andrea Bernstein, who covered the court appearance
0:26.0	for MPR.
0:27.0	Hey, Andrea.
0:28.0	Hey, it's so great to be on with you all.
0:29.9	It's so good to have you on the podcast.
0:32.8	Can you start us off by talking about what the charges are in this case?
0:37.8	Yes.
0:38.8	So, this is a 15-count criminal indictment.
0:45.8	Both Trump's chief financial officer, Alan Weiselberg, and his company are charged with
0:51.8	serious crimes.
0:52.8	The most serious of which is a charge to Alan Weiselberg of Grand Larceny in the second
0:58.1	degree, and I've spoken to a few criminal lawyers in the two hours since the indictment was
1:04.7	handed up.
1:06.2	And they both feel like a C felony.
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