Jurors have started deliberating in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial
NEW YORK — — Jurors started deliberating Monday in the Trump Organization's criminal tax fraud trial, weighing charges thatcompany helped executives dodge personal income taxes on perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars.
Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to dodging taxes on $1.7 million in extras, testified that he and McConney conspired to hide extras from his income by deducting their cost from his pre-tax salary and issuing falsified W-2 forms. Jurors must decide if Weisselberg was a “high managerial agent” acting on the company’s behalf, as prosecutors allege, or if he was acting in his own interest, as Trump Organization lawyers contend. They must also determine if he intended to benefit the company’s bottom line, not just his own.in exchange for a promised five-month jail sentence. Other executives were also accused of avoiding taxes on company perks, but no one else was charged.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass attempted to refute that claim during his closing argument last week, showing jurorsfor Weisselberg's company-paid apartment and a memo Trump initialed authorizing a pay cut for another executive who got perks.
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