After many months of anticipation and nearly three years of investigation, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg with 15 offenses related to tax fraud. According to the lengthy indictment, former President Donald Trump’s namesake corporation engaged in a 15-year scheme to “compensate Weisselberg and More

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