Lawyers claimed the company and former CFO were 'improperly targeted....based on political animus.'
The Trump Organization and former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney's criminal fraud and tax evasion charges against them, claiming they've been targeted because of politics.of providing executives with lavish untaxed perks, or"indirect employee compensation.
They argued that Cohen's later cooperation in the Manhattan case was in part due to Cohen having a"vendetta" against Weisselberg for his role in Cohen's conviction. In a text message to CBS News on Tuesday, Cohen said,"There is no vendetta, as alleged here…only an interest in seeing justice served and to ensure that no one is above the law!"
Weisselberg's attorneys are also asking the judge in the case to suppress evidence from two Manhattan district attorney investigators who they say"struck up small talk" with Weisselberg while he was in custody, arguing the investigators essentially tricked him into divulging information he might otherwise not have with a lawyer present.The filings comes less than a week after Trump and the companyin their fight against a parallel civil investigation being run by James.
A February 14 filing in that investigation revealed that Trump's longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, recently informed the Trump Organization that it was
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