That's from reading the indictment. Wait until a good defense attorney has at this.
receipts prove transactions, not intentions.
Yeah, I know. Rich people don’t get convicted because the can afford good attorneys. God bless the USA.
There’s no argument to be made here. They knew it was compensation. That’s why they reduced his compensation at the same time as paying for his tax free shit.
They also tend to commit crimes, or be accused of crimes that are more "what happened" than "who did it"
Murder is murder. all you have to do is prove who killed the person. This is tax law, and not only do you have to prove that what happened happened, but the person doing it knew what they were doing was criminal, and not just bad accounting or misunderstanding tax law.
And you have to prove it to a jury.
You don't keep a second set of books on it, if you didn't KNOW what you were doing...
So they have both sets of books?
according to item 19 on page 13, yes.
it doesn't refer to two sets of books, it says they think there was fraud in reporting.
Now they get to prove it.
Good luck lol.
oy vey. of course the indictment refers exactly that. by comparing both data sets they found the discrepancies leading to this indictment. this is not hard to understand, for non-trumptards.
They think they found it, lets see what the defense does to it.
you finally learned to understand the indictment, at least with regard to the two sets of books. baby steps, baby steps.
There are no book sets, the accusation doesn't explicitly state that.
aw. and i had such high hopes for you.
time for your nap, fat boy.
WE have no hope that you will ever commit logic, NAZI.
19. Weisselberg’s authorized annual compensation at all relevant times was fixed at a number certain. For example, from 2011 through 2018, his compensation was fixed at $940,000, to be comprised of $540,000 in base salary and $400,000 in end-of-year bonus. However,
at Weisselberg’s direction, the Trump Organization
excluded from his reported gross income the amounts that were paid to him indirectly in the form of rent paid on his New York City apartment, tuition paid on his behalf to his family members’ private school, the automobile expenses paid in connection with his and his wife’s personal cars, and the other items described above. Weisselberg, received the benefit of these payments, and the Trump Organization
internally tracked and treated many of them as part of his authorized annual compensation,
ensuring that he was not paid more than his pre-authorized, fixed amount of gross compensation.
However, the corporate defendants falsified other compensation records so that the indirect compensation payments were not reflected in Weisselberg's reported gross income. Therefore, the W-2 forms and other compensation records reported to federal, state, and local tax authorities fraudulently
understated the income that the Trump Organization had paid Weisselberg. Weisselberg included the falsified information set forth on his W-2 forms when he filed his personal income tax returns.