The amount — $810,000 for the Trump Corporation and $800,000 for the Trump Payroll Corp.
“While corporations can’t serve jail time, this consequential conviction and sentencing serves as a reminder to corporations and executives that you cannot defraud tax authorities and get away with it,” he said.
Authorities said that for 13 years, the company engaged in a sophisticated scheme that gave high-level executives lavish job perks while dodging income taxes.
Attorneys for the Trump Organization on Friday blamed an outside accounting firm, Mazars USA, and Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg for the wrongdoing, according to The New York Times.
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