Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: Trump Target 'Bribed' to Flip; Charges Won't Stick
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 03 July 2021 12:48 PM
Charges related to federal taxes that have filed in New York City against the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg, will end up being thrown out, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Saturday.
"You can't get a city district attorney indicting somebody for failing to pay federal income taxes when the IRS hasn't even gone after him," Dershowitz told "Saturday Report." "One of the charges, a major charge, is grand larceny against the United States government. That shows the extent to which they are prepared to stretch existing law and the Constitution to give them authority over federal taxes? It's absurd."
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty Thursday to fraud and theft charges in the first criminal case coming from a years-long investigation of former President Donald Trump and his business dealings.
Weisselberg and company lawyers appeared in a lower Manhattan courtroom Thursday afternoon for arraignment the charges filed by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. The charges that were read include grand larceny and scheme to defraud.
Dershowitz added, if Weisselberg's name "was not what it is," and if he did not work for the Trump Organization, "he would never be indicted."
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