The lease represents part of the prosecution’s efforts to show that the Trump Organization and its executives engaged in a years-long scheme to avoid taxes — one that was pushed by the highest levels of the company, according to Bloomberg. Weiselberg, the prosecution’s key witness, reportedly received a $6,500-a-month apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and $10,000 in moving fees from the Trump Organization. Florida parents, teachers file new lawsuit over ‘Don’t say gay’ law Judge rejects bid to dismiss defamation suit against Giuliani The lease presented to jurors on Tuesday said the apartment was intended to be rented by Weisselberg or other company employees and was signed by Trump himself, Bloomberg reported. The Trump Organization has been indicted on charges that it provided corporate executives with tax evasion privileges. The former president himself is not charged in the case, although the presiding judge said last week that Trump and his three grown children may be called to testify. However, the trial was halted later Tuesday after Trump Organization auditor Jeffrey McConey, the prosecution’s first witness, tested positive for COVID-19.
