The MeidasTouch Podcast - BREAKING: Trump Organization GUILTY on ALL COUNTS in Criminal Trial (Feat. Michael Cohen)

On this MeidasTouch Podcast/Legal AF crossover, Legal AF hosts Michael Popok, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Ben Meiselas are joined by guest Michael Cohen to break down the conviction of the Trump Organization on all counts in the criminal trial in New York.Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.comJoin us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouchRemember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts:MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101

Duration: 1h 33m
Broadcast on: 07 Dec 2022
Audio Format: other

This is Michael Popok, legal AF with my co-anchor Karen Freeman at Nifilo. For a special Trump organization has been convicted of all 17 counts, mid-week show. You heard it right folks. I know that's why you joined. We finally have our first major conviction of a Trump and Trump-related entity. The only entity that matters to him is the Trump organization, ever since he changed the name of it when his father left it to him in his will, that has been the primary vehicle for the family Trump to do all of their business slash drifting from the very beginning. So for the Trump organization to now have a jury in a Manhattan trial court, Manhattan's Supreme Court, come back after less than one full day of deliberation and find that the Trump organization is guilty of all 17 counts of tax evasion and fraud that the prosecutors had put on. They didn't get off on one. There was not one hung count. All 17 counts have now been reached by the jury and that's all guilty, guilty, guilty 17 times against the Trump organization. As I suggested in my hot take yesterday, the fact that the defense had even thought about moving for a mistrial during closing arguments in response to the prosecutor putting up evidence that had already been produced in the case that demonstrated for the jury that even Donald Trump knew about the fraud, the payments under the table to his three key executives for years to allow them to pay for without any tax consequence to them. No tax liability for them for apartments in Manhattan for tuition for children and grandchildren for car services and as people that live near Manhattan know those things all add up pretty quickly. This went on for years until 2017 after Trump already was in office and they then decided to clean that mess up led by Ivanka and led by the children and ended up just giving those executives $200,000 more a year to cover all of these benefits that they had been getting under the table. It was a benefit to the Trump organization. That's the fraud because they were able to take these things as improper tax deductions meaning they lowered their payroll taxes and didn't have to pay taxes on that and the recipient of this benefits under the table, Alan Weisselberg, Calamari and the controller, they didn't declare it as income to themselves. Of course, who got screwed in this? You, me and all the rest of the US taxpayers, that's what the jury has found and that fact that they changed their practices after Trump became president. I'm sure it was one of the things that the jury focused on to say there was knowledge at the ownership level, the highest level of the fraud. Remember that the defense primarily focused on that this was just the defense for the Trump organization, that this was just the rogue acts of three out of control executives that the senior ownership, that means the Trump family had no idea, no idea that the these payments were being made, I mean, I can't even get that out with a straight face. I don't know how the defense team did, but that was their defense that Alan Weisselberg who testified, who was, as I called him, the bride at the wedding and the body at the funeral, he testified that yes, it was on him, but he also had to testify that people above him, meaning the Trump family, knew about these benefits being paid to him and I'm sure Alan Weisselberg's testimony was very important to the decision-making by the jury. Karen Friedman at Nipalo formally, the number two prosecutor, the number two head of that office, the Manhattan DA's office that just got this tremendous victory.

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