Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Saturday he believes federal tax fraud charges filed in New York City against the Trump Organization’s longtime finance chief will end up being dismissed. “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 said in an interview with Newsmax. “One of the charges, a major charge, is grand larceny against the United States government,” Dershowitz added. “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.” Last week, the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Allen Weisselberg, were charged in what New York prosecutors called a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme in which Trump’s company and Weisselberg allegedly cheated the state and city out of taxes by conspiring to pay senior …
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