The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns (2015-2020), ending a four-year legal battle and providing unprecedented public access to a sitting president’s financial records. The release followed the committee’s December 20, …
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A Manhattan jury convicted the Trump Organization on all 17 criminal counts of tax fraud and falsifying business records after deliberating for approximately one day, marking the first time Donald Trump’s company faced criminal charges, trial, and conviction. The jury found two …
Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization who served the company for nearly five decades, pleaded guilty in New York state court to 15 felony counts related to a 15-year tax fraud scheme, admitting he failed to pay taxes on $1.7 million in income including …
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office unsealed criminal charges against the Trump Organization, longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg, and the Trump Payroll Corporation, marking the first criminal case ever brought against former President Donald Trump’s company. Prosecutors charged the …
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The New York Times obtained and published a comprehensive investigation into President Donald Trump’s tax returns covering more than 20 years, revealing that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 (the year he won the presidency) and 2017 (his first year in office). The …
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On September 12, 2019, Google agreed to pay €945 million ($1.1 billion) to French authorities to settle a four-year tax fraud investigation—avoiding criminal prosecution by negotiating a financial settlement despite evidence of systematic tax evasion. The case exemplified how corporate tax fraud is …
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort received a combined sentence of 7.5 years (90 months) in federal prison across two separate criminal cases stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, representing the longest prison term imposed on any defendant in the Mueller …
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