In their New York criminal trial for tax fraud, Trump’s attorneys tried to throw both their CFO and their former accounting firm under the bus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the recent trial for criminal tax fraud, attorneys for the Trump Organization tried to blame Allen Weisselberg, their own Chief Financial Officer (CFO), since he already had entered guilty pleas. They also tried to shift blame to their former accounting firm, Mazars – saying they should have caught the fraud. (On February 18, 2022 I blogged about how Donald Trump’s Organization got fired by his accountants). An article by Matthew Chapman at Salon on December 2, 2022 is titled Trump Org lawyers throw Allen Weisselberg under the bus after he spilled the beans at trial.

 

But the jury didn’t think any of that was credible. There were 17 counts. Another article by Kara Scannell and Lauren de Valle at CNN on December 7, 2022 reported Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud.

 

Merriam-Webster has yet another article on Where does the expression ‘throw someone under the bus’ come from? Their thesaurus explains that ‘spill the beans’ means to make known information previously kept secret.  

 

I created an ‘under the bus’ cartoon from modified versions of this bus  at Openclipart and this man at Wikimedia Commons.