Criminal charges are expected to be filed against the Trump Organization as soon as next week in connection with the Manhattan district attorney’s long-running …
Criminal charges are expected to be filed against the Trump Organization as soon as next week in connection with the Manhattan district attorney’s long-running inquiry into the financial dealings of former President Donald Trump’s namesake company, a Trump attorney said Friday. Trump attorneys met with local prosecutors Thursday in an attempt to persuade officials not to proceed, Trump Organization lawyer Ron Fischetti said in an interview with USA TODAY. “In my more than 50 years of practice, never before have I seen the District Attorney’s Office target a company over employee compensation or fringe benefits,” Fischetti said. “Even the financial institutions responsible for causing the 2008 financial crises, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, were not prosecuted.” A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
