The Trump organization received criminal charges from the Manhattan prosecutor

The Trump Institution and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been indicted next week for criminal offenses filed by Manhattan neighborhood lawyer Cyrus Vance next week, according to information on the matter.

People said Trump’s attorneys at the approximately 90-minute Zoom meeting warned people that possible charges related to accounting for benefits accounted for by prosecutors at Vance’s office and Attorney General’s office at New York’s Attorney General are possible.

Vance convened a special grand jury at the end of May to hear the evidence, an indicator of what turns out to be a critical phase of years of investigation. Under New York state law, prosecutors cannot charge a company with fraud without even charging a senior official who is held responsible for the alleged activities.

Jennifer, a former daughter of Weisselberg, has called on prosecutors for the marginal benefits distributed by the Trump Organization, including rent-free apartments, school enrollment, luxury cars and other benefits. Off-book gifts, he said, were used to boost loyalty and limit taxes.

He was married to Jennifer Allen’s son, Barry Weisselberg, who ran a Trump-operated skating rink in Central Park.

“Things in Weisselberg are immediate,” said a report on the subject.

Donald Trump, agitated to return to politics and warned of a 2024 White House offer, has repeatedly dismissed the investigations of Vance and James, two New York Democrats, as “partisan witch hunts.”

Mary Mulligan Weisselberg’s lawyer declined to comment. Spokesmen for the Manhattan DA and the New York Attorney General, who are working alongside the investigation, have also declined.

Trump representative Ronald Fischetti released a lawyer with the statement dismissing the allegations.

“In my practice of more than 50 years, I have never seen a district office direct compensation or employee benefits to a company,” he said. “The IRS would not bring such a case and has never brought it.”

At the meeting, Trump’s attorneys argued that the attorney did not charge a large Wall Street bank after the 2008 financial crisis, and the lawsuit against the former president was even unjustified, according to a person informed of the Zoom call.

Vance opened his investigation in 2018, informing women that former president-elect Michael Cohen’s relationship with the then-presidential candidate had been paid “silently for money”. Cohen testified in Congress that he had agreed with Weisselberg to return the funds to the Trump organization listed as a legal fee.

The probe then examined whether the Trump organization had possible bank and accounting frauds, including whether it inflated the values ​​of some properties to secure bank loans on favorable terms, while minimizing them for tax purposes.

Prosecutors have been putting pressure on Weisselberg in recent months, who was hired by the father of former President Fred Trump, and said they are the company’s “eyes and ears.”

Former prosecutors say his cooperation could be key to bringing a larger case against the company or Trump himself. Trump’s three adult children – Donald, Jr., Ivanka and Eric – have also held management positions at the company. So far, however, Weisselberg has refused to cooperate, according to people who know the subject.