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Former President Donald Trump has a slew of legal woes hanging over his head as he mounts his recently announced bid to retake the White House in 2024.
The 76-year-old faces the threat of a federal indictment over classified documents allegedly found at his Mar-a-Lago club and his namesake company, the Trump Organization, is on trial for criminal tax fraud in Manhattan.
A couple of lawsuits against him are also still being fought in court, though some have recently been resolved, including the ex-president snagging wins in cases brought by his niece Mary Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen.
The 45th president could face a potential indictment as the Justice Department — and a grand jury — probes whether he mishandled classified information that the FBI said it seized during the Aug. 8 raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Some 11,000 documents — about 100 of which had classified markings — were seized by the feds. But after the raid, Trump claimed that he had declassified the records before he left the White House and brought them to his residence.
The Trump Organization has been on trial for the past two weeks in Manhattan Supreme Court, with the District Attorney’s Office alleging that the real estate company cheated on its taxes from 2005 to 2021 by failing to report huge perks that top executives received — like apartments and luxury cars.
The prosecution’s star witness, former Trump Org chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, began his testimony in the case Tuesday. Weisselberg, 75, pleaded guilty in August to tax fraud charges, admitting to accepting more than $1.7 million in “off the books” benefits to avoid taxes.
