The long-expected indictment by the political hit squad under Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. was served today on the Trump Organization and its financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. Vance has been trying for months to get Weisselberg to “turn” on Trump and help manufacture some crime, as the DOJ and the Democrats in the Congress have been trying to do for the past five years. Both the Organization and Weisselberg pled not guilty. The “Get Trump” crowd are still cheering for Vance to turn Weisselberg, and in any case to continue the investigation to criminally indict the former President.
The charges are acknowledged by one and all to be thoroughly bogus. The defendants are charged with failing to include $1.7 million in “percs'’ for Weisselberg as income and to pay taxes on them. Weisselberg’s lawyer said that in his fifty years in practice he had never seen criminal charges for these actions. One may expect his lawyer to say that, but even the CNN in-house legal commentator, and even the New York Times, say the same thing. In fact, CNN reported that in most such cases, there is not even civil litigation — the IRS simply informs the target that he has to pay taxes on the percs, the taxes are paid, and case closed.
