‘A Scheme To Defraud’: Manhattan DA’s 15-Count Indictment Hits Trump Inc. And Weisselberg

New York prosecutors on Thursday unveiled an indictment charging the Trump Organization\u2019s finance chief Allen Weisselberg with grand larceny and the company with fraud. Both Weisselberg and the company pleaded not guilty.https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-organization-cfo-allen-weisselberg-surrenders-to-authorities-11625138416?mod=hp_lead_pos1\u00a0\u2026

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@Rebecca Ballhaus) 1625164936

NEW: New York Attorney General Letitia James: "This investigation will continue, and we will follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead.\u201d http://abcn.ws/3xaRLph\u00a0pic.twitter.com/4PLoFgPoQb

— ABC News (@ABC News) 1625166130

15 counts. Wow.https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1410668093051965444\u00a0\u2026

— Bradley P. Moss (@Bradley P. Moss) 1625164558

"If the allegations in the indictment are true, this was pants-on-fire tax evasion," said Daniel Hemel, a tax law professor at the University of Chicago (about the Weisselberg indictment). "It is very hard to believe that this could have happened without the man on top knowing."

— Jonathan Landay (@Jonathan Landay) 1625173217

4. Charges are \u201cmuch broader than we were led to believe\u201d by Trump's lawyers over past few days.\n\nAppears to be a \u201cvery conscious,\u201d "orchestrated" criminal scheme.\n\n- @DanielRAlonso, former federal and New York State prosecutor (via @AymanMSNBC in response to question by @AymanM)

— Ryan Goodman (@Ryan Goodman) 1625167860

Presuming these allegations are true, Weisselberg seems really screwed. He lived in an apartment paid for by the Trump Organization which neither he nor the organization reported as part of his income and he falsely claimed not to be a NYC Resident to avoid city taxes.https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1410671146324971525\u00a0\u2026

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@Aaron Reichlin-Melnick) 1625165569

Wow. If these allegations are true, it is not a close case. They've got the goods on Weisselberg, & it would be surprising if he were the only person in Trumpworld who knew about thispic.twitter.com/mVQkcg1oNe

— Daniel Hemel (@Daniel Hemel) 1625166345

Breaking: the Trump Org indictment alleges a federal tax scheme, not just a NY state one. See paragraph 4.

— Andrew Weissmann (@Andrew Weissmann) 1625165611

The \u201clock her up\u201d people are worried about holding former officials accountablehttps://twitter.com/acyn/status/1410674398697119745\u00a0\u2026

— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1625166062

Shocker: Trump says liberal Democrats are out to get him

— Joyce Alene (@Joyce Alene) 1625167140