Timothy Clary/GettyFormer President Trump’s family business and its chief financial officer have been charged with criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records, grand larceny, and scheming to defraud the government, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday afternoon.The Manhattan district attorney’s office alleges that, for 15 years, the company and CFO Allen Weisselberg “operated a scheme to defraud” the federal, state, and city governments by paying executives a huge chunk of their real salaries “off the books.”Weisselberg is formally accused of hiding $1.76 million in “indirect employee compensation” he received from the Trump Organization over a period of 12 years, from 2005 until 2017, and is described in the indictment as “one of the largest individual beneficiaries.” Prosecutors also suggest there were others involved, who remain unidentified. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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