NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s family real estate company offered employee benefits that were so lucrative they classified as crimes — so it kept the details in two sets of books, prosecutors told a Manhattan jury Monday during opening arguments of the long-awaited tax fraud trial.
“This case is about greed and cheating. Cheating on taxes,” Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger told jurors at Manhattan Supreme Court.
“These two defendants, the Trump Organization and Trump Payroll Corporation, paid their already highly paid executives even more by helping them cheat on taxes from about 2005 to 2018.”
