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   Donald Trump’s Odds of Going to Prison Just Skyrocketed   
   The Trump Organization and its CFO will reportedly be hit with criminal   
   charges on Thursday, and additional indictments may be coming.   
      
   By Bess Levin   
   June 30, 2021   
      
      
   Three years after it began its criminal investigation of Donald Trump’s Trump   
   Organization and its executives, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is   
   reportedly expected to charge the ex-president’s company and its chief   
   financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with tax-related crimes on Thursday,   
   according The Wall Street Journal. Obviously this marks a major escalation of   
   the probe, and Trump will presumably respond to the news by lashing out like   
   a man increasingly concerned that prison may be in his future.   
      
   According to the Journal, Weisselberg and the company are expected to be hit   
   with charges related to allegedly avoiding paying taxes on fringe benefits.   
   For months Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office has been investigating whether the perks   
   the CFO (and other employees) was awarded, including cars, corporate   
   apartments, and private school tuition, were a way of evading money owed to   
   the IRS. In addition to reportedly obtaining Weisselberg’s personal tax   
   returns, the D.A.’s office scored a trove of financial documents from his ex-   
   daughter-in-law, Jennifer Weisselberg, whose former husband, Barry   
   Weisselberg, is also a longtime employee of the company. (In his divorce   
   deposition Barry was unable to answer a number of questions about his taxes,   
   and when asked if taxes had been paid on the Trump Organization–owned   
   apartment where his family previously lived, he said he didn’t know. Pressed   
   to explain discrepancies between what he said he earned and what he actually   
   reported on tax forms, he responded: “I’m not an accountant. I know what I   
   make. I’m not too sure of certain things.”)   
      
   While Weisselberg has thus far refused to cooperate with the investigation,   
   being personally charged, and contemplating the prospect of prison time,   
   could obviously change his decision re: testifying against Trump—and if it   
   were to, it would undoubtedly be a very, very bad turn of events for the 45th   
   president. Weisselberg has described himself as the “eyes and ears“ of the   
   company from a financial standpoint, and he could presumably connect any   
   number of dots about potential crimes committed by Trump.   
      
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