The only criminal trial to arise out of the years-long probe into former president Donald Trump’s eponymous real estate and licensing company kicked off on Monday with opening statements from prosecutors who said the case was not about the ex-president.
Last year, a New York grand jury indicted two subsidiaries of the Trump Organization after a two-year investigation into whether the ex-president’s companies violated New York State tax laws. The companies — as well as their then-chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg — were charged with multiple counts of fraud and other tax-related crimes for not reporting millions of dollars in perks paid to Weisselberg and others as income.
