Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief were charged in what a prosecutor called a 'sweeping and audacious' tax fraud. Trump Organisation's CFO Allen Weisselberg, second from left, appears in court in New York a grand jury returned an indictment charging him and Trump's company with tax crimes. The 73-year-old Weisselberg has intimate knowledge of the Trump Organisation's financial dealings from nearly five decades at the company. Donald Trump with his chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg and his son Donald Trump Jr. during a news conference in 2017. Weisselberg came under scrutiny in part because of questions about his son's use of a Trump apartment at little or no cost.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 01, 2021 21:11 UTC