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Several Trump Organization executives were collectively paid more than a million dollars on the side as “independent contractors” in 2015 in a way that helped them avoid taxes, Manhattan prosecutors revealed at the company’s criminal trial on Thursday.
Although that particular detail didn’t become a formal criminal charge against the company, it was among many dirty deeds at the former president’s namesake firm that was placed under a microscope this week by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The Trump Organization is on trial over the way it allegedly dodged taxes by showering its then-chief financial officer with off-the-books corporate benefits, like a ritzy New York City apartment, luxury cars, and paid tuition at an expensive private school for his grandkids.