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A New York indictment of the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg landed like a branding iron on the former president’s finances, family business, and political mythology.
On July 2, 2021, the Trump Organization and longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg were hit with criminal charges over an alleged years-long tax scheme. The case put Trump’s own company back in the legal crosshairs just as he was trying to reassemble his political operation. It also revived the ugly question of whether the former president’s business empire ran on routine cheating dressed up as genius.
The immediate political punch here is simple: Trump keeps selling strength, but his business keeps arriving in court looking small, sloppy, and legally radioactive. On a holiday weekend, that is not the kind of fireworks any campaign wants.
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Two days earlier, on July 1, 2021, Manhattan prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, in a case that accuses them of hiding compensation and evading taxes. Both defendants pleaded not guilty as the criminal case began.