Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of Trump Organization Inc., center, arrives at criminal court in New York, U.S., on on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021.
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A lawyer for Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg told a judge Monday that more indictments are expected in the criminal tax fraud case against former President Donald Trump’s company and its longtime executive.
That judge said he anticipates a trial taking place in late August or early September of 2022.
“We have strong reason to believe there could be other indictments coming,” Weisselberg attorney Bryan Skarlatos said in Manhattan Supreme Court, NBC News reported.
Weisselberg’s attorneys told Judge Juan Merchan that they have been swamped by the millions of documents handed over to them from the Manhattan district attorney’s office and pleaded for more time before the court schedules motion or trial dates, NBC News said.
“There could be more indictments coming, Judge, what’s the rush,” Skarlatos, argued in the hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to NBC.
Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of Trump Organization Inc., center, appears in criminal court in New York, U.S., on on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021.
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In all, Weisselberg alone received about $1.76 million worth of “indirect compensation,” the indictment said.
The Trump Organization, Trump Payroll and Weisselberg, who has worked for the former president and his family for more than four decades, in July pleaded not guilty to the charges, which do not include Donald Trump himself.
“We have studied the indictment and it is full of unsupported and flawed factual and legal assertions regarding Allen Weisselberg. We look forward to challenging those assertions in court,” Weisselberg attorneys Skarlatos and Mary Mulligan said in a statement to NBC.
In court Monday morning, Weisselberg’s lawyers told Merchan they have received roughly 6 million pages of materials as part of the evidence-gathering phase of the case, a deluge that forces them to review 30,000 pages a day, seven days a week, NBC reported.
A prosecutor countered that Weisselberg “is no stranger to these documents, he has been with the Trump Org for 35 years,” according to NBC.
— CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed to this report.
