Washington: Alan Weiselberg, the longtime chief financial officer (CFO) of former US President Donald Trump’s company, has been charged with fraud. Prosecutors have called it a case of tax fraud in which officers were rewarded more than $1.7 million in payments for apartment rent, cars and school tuition. This payment is not recorded in any record.
Although Trump has not been charged in the case, prosecutors said the former president had signed some checks related to an alleged plan to fraud. New York officials are investigating Trump’s business practices for the first time in two years in a criminal case.
According to the allegations that were uncovered, from 2005 to this year, the Trump Organization and Weiselberg financially ravaged the state and the city by tax evasion, conspiring to pay senior officials, including Weiselberg, through fringe benefits and other means. Do not enter any record.
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On the other hand, lawyers for Weiselberg and the Trump Organization have pleaded innocent. Weiselberg was asked to submit his passport and then he was let go. Weiselberg, 73, has a good knowledge of the financial dealings of the Trump Organization and has been associated with the company for nearly five decades.
Trump called it a politically motivated case and Weiselberg’s lawyers said they would face the charges.
