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Possible indictment of the Trump Organization draws closer

Lawyers for the Trump Organization have met with prosecutors to present their final arguments in favor of not charging Donald Trump’s company.

The Trump Organization indicted in the days to come? Lawyers for Donald Trump’s company pleaded this Monday, June 28 to try to avoid him with prosecutors, accused by the former Republican president of “harassing a political opponent”.

In recent days, it was reported that investigations closed the business of the former real estate mogul New York-open for two years by the Manhattan District Attorney and State Attorney New York , two elected Democrats, and relating to suspicions of tax fraud or insurance fraud fraude were preparing to bear their first fruits.

According to several media, lawyers for the Trump Organization were to meet with prosecutors on Monday to present their final arguments in favor of not indicting the company.

Information indirectly confirmed by Donald Trump himself on Monday evening, who indicated in a press release that his lawyers had been given “one day, today, to defend us from having done things that are commonplace in the world of business”.

An indictment of Trump himself?

Anonymous sources quoted by the New York Times had indicated last week that an indictment of the Trump Organization was under consideration, concerning benefits in kind granted to the financial director of the holding, Allen Weisselberg, faithful among the faithful of Donald Trump, and presumably not reported to the tax authorities.

For Bennett Gershman, Pace University law professor and ex-Manhattan prosecutor, a Trump Organization indictment should now be “a matter of days.”

Could the legal person that is the Trump Organization be sued, without Donald Trump or one of his family members leaving the reins of his business to his two eldest sons and Weisselberg when he leaves for the White House? in early 2017― be it too?

Many forensic experts deem this unlikely and expect Weisselberg, who has so far refused to cooperate with the justice system, to be indicted as well, at the same time as the Trump Organization or soon after.

But no one risks a prognosis concerning a possible indictment of the former Republican president, who held his first major political rally in Ohio on Saturday since leaving the White House and maintains the ambiguity on a new candidacy for the presidential election in 2024.

“Not out of the woods yet”

One of the lawyers for the Trump Organization, Ron Fischetti, assured American media on Monday evening that Donald Trump would not be personally indicted, “at least not in what will fall this week” – while stressing that he was “not yet out of the woods”.

The former president, now domiciled in Florida, again qualified Monday these investigations as “continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time”. He also accused Democratic prosecutors of being “desperate to stop” his movement and himself, “going so far as to commit professional misconduct and harass a political opponent”.

Even if he was indicted, that would not theoretically prevent him from running for president again, under US election laws. The ongoing investigations are based in particular on eight years of tax returns from the former president obtained by prosecutors after a long legal battle, and on testimonies from his personal ex-lawyer Michael Cohen.

Sentenced to three years in prison, the latter, who works with investigators, said the company regularly overvalued or undervalued its assets, possible crimes of tax fraud or insurance fraud.

The investigations should in any case continue beyond the first indictments, leaving the door open to new prosecutions in the long term. And the possibility of seeing justice catch up with Donald Trump does not fail to delight his opponents: “He never followed the rules” and “deserves to go to prison”, notably declared on CNN Barbara Res, a former president of the Trump Organization.

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