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US jury begins deliberating in Trump Organization tax fraud trial

Former US President Donald Trump, who has been beset by legal woes and investigations, was not charged in the Trump Organization's tax fraud case [File: Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]

United States jurors in the Trump Organization’s tax fraud trial have started deliberating after four weeks of testimony and arguments about executive pay practices at Donald Trump’s real estate company that prosecutors say amounted to a years-long criminal scheme.

The former US president’s company was charged in 2021 with paying personal expenses for some executives without reporting the payments as income and compensating them as if they were independent contractors.

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