A dozen New York jurors will soon decide if two Trump Organization companies committed fraud and tax evasion.
After a six-week-long trial, Judge Juan Merchan reminded jurors Monday that in October they promised to"set aside any biases that you have for or against Donald Trump or his family" in deciding if executives working for the Trumps broke the law by avoiding taxes, while reducing payroll liabilities, through a variety of alleged schemes.
The former president was not charged in the Manhattan District Attorney's effort to prosecute the Trump companies, but his name was invoked frequently at the monthlong trial, by both sides.
On Monday, Merchan rejected a defense effort to have a mistrial declared, as well as a challenge to one of New York's criminal corporate liability statutes as"unconstitutionally vague." The Trump Organization's lawyers said in their closing arguments Thursday that Trump and his company were
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