New York's Trumped-Up Tax Evasion Charges

Using the hyperbolic and sensationalist language of the American ruling class, the New York Times gleefully announced that President Trump's real-estate company and its 73-year-old CFO, Allen H. Weisselberg, have been charged with "Running a 15-year scheme to help its executives evade taxes by compensating them with fringe benefits."

After more than four years of going after Donald Trump with every weapon in its considerable arsenal, the best the state of New York could come up with is a charge that requires it to prove that the Trump Organization provided fringe benefits to its employees with the intent to allow them to commit tax fraud.

Trump's accountant Weisselberg stands charged with tax fraud for "Accepting secret perks," which is to say for failing to report the monetary value of fringe benefits.

Trump is also alleged to have personally paid tuition for the Weisselberg's grandkids to attend the same private school where his own child was enrolled while in New York.

So the Senate Finance panel in charge of Geithner's confirmation met in a secret session and issued a report designed to fudge his improprieties, noting only that he had recently filed amended tax returns without questioning why he had put off amending his 2001 and 2002 returns until after his nomination.

The case against Weisselberg and Trump's real estate company on the state level is as trumped up as the Mueller investigation was on the federal level.

New York Attorney General Letitia James echoed that sentiment, saying she will shine "a bright light into every dark corner of real estate dealings, and every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn," shamelessly campaigning on a promise of selective prosecution.
 

https://spectator.org/new-york-tax-evasion-charges-trump/