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.