Exquisitely analyzed piece.
Trump lawyers laid false claim #Weisselberg-#TrumpIndictments were "fringe benefits" case.
Since then, DJT, Eric and Don Jr. have maintained that frame. So has much of the media!
Top #TaxLaw expert demolishes that framing.
justsecurity.org/77331/the-weis…
Trump lawyers laid false claim #Weisselberg-#TrumpIndictments were "fringe benefits" case.
Since then, DJT, Eric and Don Jr. have maintained that frame. So has much of the media!
Top #TaxLaw expert demolishes that framing.
justsecurity.org/77331/the-weis…
2. Paying a senior executive their income in wads of cash to avoid paying taxes is ... not a fringe benefit case. 
3. Professor @DanielShaviro (the very top tax law expert who authored the article) also provides a list.
"The following items that the company paid for, on Weisselberg’s behalf, most emphatically do not fit the profile of potentially excludable fringe benefits":
"The following items that the company paid for, on Weisselberg’s behalf, most emphatically do not fit the profile of potentially excludable fringe benefits":
4. There's plenty more in the article itself, which clearly lays out the interlocking parts of the alleged criminal scheme.
Also a couple insights from Shaviro on criminal enforcement of such alleged activity...
Also a couple insights from Shaviro on criminal enforcement of such alleged activity...
5. "It is hard to fathom that the IRS–if it agrees that those facts are true–would not promptly indict the defendants .... Failing to bring charges would amount to saying that overt and deliberate tax cheating of the most brazen kind need not be addressed criminally."
6/6 "If the Manhattan DA can prove the facts asserted, this is not a trivial case, or one that ordinarily would not be brought, or one that bespeaks political bias.... It is unimaginable to me that any prosecutor would not bring these or similar charges under the asserted facts."
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