Trump Org. defense lawyer scolded for using struck testimony

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Closing arguments at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial got off to a rocky start as a lawyer for the company was caught showing jurors portions of witness testimony that had previously been stricken from the official court record

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Necheles said she didn’t intend to show any testimony that had been stricken as a result of a sustained objection. Merchan noted that the objections themselves had been removed from the excerpts Necheles showed, but not the objectionable testimony. The tax fraud case is the only trial to arise from the Manhattan district attorney’s three-year investigation of Trump and his business practices.

“We are here today for one reason and one reason only: the greed of Allen Weisselberg,” Necheles said, her remarks accompanied at one point by the wail of a siren from an emergency vehicle outside. Prosecutors and another company lawyer are expected to make their closing arguments Thursday afternoon. The prosecutors argue that the Trump Organization — through its subsidiaries Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. — is liable because Weisselberg, the longtime finance chief, was a “high managerial agent” entrusted to act on behalf of the company and its various entities.

Weisselberg pleaded guilty in August to dodging taxes on $1.7 million in extras and testified against the Trump Organization in exchange for a promised sentence of five months in jail.

 

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