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breaking news just moments ago from the
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washington post reporting that a
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manhattan grand jury
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has filed criminal indictments against
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the trump organization
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and his longtime chief financial officer
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alan weiselberg
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the indictments came down tonight but
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will remain sealed until tomorrow
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afternoon
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leaving us in the dark about the
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specific charges until then although
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they are expected to be focused
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on tax related crimes post also reports
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that alan weisselberg is expected to
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surrender
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at the manhattan district attorney's
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office tomorrow morning and will be
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arraigned later in the day
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the trump organization the entity the
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company itself will also be arranged
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represented
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by a lawyer these are the first charges
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resulting from the nearly three-year
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investigation into donald trump
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and his businesses trump himself is not
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expected to be charged
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with any crimes at this time the charges
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against his business will of course
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exacerbate his legal issues
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and charges against weisselberg could
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increase pressure on the longtime cfo to
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flip on his boss joining me now by phone
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one of the washington post reporters who
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just broke that story
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david farrenhold david what more can you
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tell us
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well tomorrow as you said we will learn
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more about the evidence that the
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manhattan d.a has against allen
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weisselberg
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the trump organization we anticipate
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that the charges filed tomorrow
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well two things about that we anticipate
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that they will relate to taxes that
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should have been paid on
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payments benefits to trump organization
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indexes you know
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this will not just be one or two you
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know missed tax payments this may be
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sort of alleged as a
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conspiracy or something that happened
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over a long period of time
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we also don't believe this to be the end
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of the case i think this will be
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the first charges in this case but i
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don't think that we're seeing the end
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in fact we may be sort of seeing the
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beginning as prosecutors put their
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pressure on weisselberg in the hopes
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that he will flip and become one of
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their witnesses
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yeah and weisselberg obviously has been
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the key here all
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this entire time and the question i
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think was you know we knew investigators
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were looking around weisselberg
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um we also know that in the past you
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know investigators looked to michael
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cohen
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initially michael cohen had not uh had
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not flipped he had been
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you know had a search warrant surged on
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him he had been charged and then he
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uh ended up striking a deal for
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testimony in exchange for
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for leniency clearly that's the number
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one fear i would imagine for donald
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trump or for people in his orbit
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that's right i mean michael cohen as you
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said
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he had a huge amount of other
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liabilities that didn't have to do much
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with his work with donald trump he had
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some related to that
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he also had a whole uh entanglement
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involving taxi licenses and loans in new
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york city
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that was part of the pressure on him to
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flip michael cohen thought he might
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spend more than 10 years in prison
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he changed the tune and started he
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testified pleaded guilty but also
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testified against trump
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we will see tomorrow what kind of
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sentence is facing weisselberg
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you know is he talking about some kind
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of offense that usually just gets off at
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the fine
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or is he looking at something that could
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be years and years in prison weisselberg
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in the 70s
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will he feel the pressure that michael
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cohen fell as i said it's really hard to
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evaluate this case until you know what's
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going to happen with weisselberg
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and it's really hard to know what's
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going to happen with weiselberg until
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you see what's facing tomorrow
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and the the arraignment of the i mean
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again it's sort of a strange to sort of
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encounter the
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legal fiction or legal entity of the
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corporation and its arraignment
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um obviously the corporation cannot
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march into court
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uh it highlights i think how relatively
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rare criminal charges are against
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a business enterprise or corporation um
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what do we know about that channel of
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charges
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well as you said the trump organization
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will be represented in court by a lawyer
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who will probably enter a not guilty
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plea on its behalf
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it'll be interesting to me to see what
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specifically they charge what entity the
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trump organization is more than 500
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different llc's
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it's created on purpose to be sort of
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this opaque nest of llc's that all own
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pieces of each other
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all reporting back up to trump so i'll
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be interested to see which entities they
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charge
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you could you could these cases probably
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they're not that common when they do
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happen
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they often end in fines uh for the
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companies that have been charged
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but there's also sort of collateral
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damage or there could be collateral
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damage
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if it makes banks lenders you know
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people who have contracts with the trump
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organization
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leery of doing business with an indicted
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company
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