It is actually a fairly simple case about reporting of benefits. If the benefits were not reported, there is a problem. If the benefits were reported, then not a problem.
The Jury basicly said that the organization did not follow the law with regards to reporting benefits to the IRS during the company tax filing. Those benefits are treated as income.
So it was a federal case?
“the organization did not follow the law with regards to reporting benefits to the IRS during the company tax filing. Those benefits are treated as income.”
The specifics are that Trump staff were allowed to live in unsold units of Trump buildings.
It’s basically the boss being nice and letting his staff us an empty unit for a few months and not forcing them to pay the large amounts of tax on a multi-million dollar property.
It’s really not a -simple- case of “benefits”. They were calling it a benefit if a car was sent to get someone. It was them criminalizing several small things in the workplace they deemed a “benefit”. Meanwhile leftist companies inundate employees in wine and food bars, massages, ubers etc etc... and it’s suddenly not a benefit when they do it.
This was a dishonest case, brought to a dishonest jury, for political retribution. They literally started investigating their target to see what they could find. We are beyond rule of law.
Except the IRS had nothing to do with the case. This was a New York State case, not a Federal case.