The Manhattan District Attorney’s has obtained indictments against the Trump Organization and its officials, according to two officials who briefed the Washington Post Wednesday.
Officials expect prosecutors to unseal the criminal charges in court Thursday afternoon, NBC News reported. Obtaining an indictment means prosecutors presented the proposed charges to a grand jury, which then decided charges should be filed.
Donald Trump is not expected to be charged himself, but one of his most trusted advisors and long-time employees, Allen Weisselberg, was instructed to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday.
Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, is expected to face criminal charges on corporate tax evasion. He has worked for Trump since the 1970s. Trump once described Weisselberg as someone who “did whatever was necessary to protect the bottom line.”
Prosecutors have scrutinized the company’s handling of fringe benefits that provided cars, vehicles, and private school tuition payments.
The former Republican president dismissed the investigation Tuesday, calling it a politically motivated continuation of the “witch hunt.”
Earlier this week, Trump’s attorney Ron Fischetti said the case was “much ado about nothing,” adding he could not believe he would have to go to court for “a case like this.”
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