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It is the first time a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct and comes as the former president is running for a second term.

The celebrity lawyer was ordered to pay nearly $11 million in restitution to four clients as well as the IRS.

Prosecutors worked to show that Trump executives, including former CFO Allen Weisselberg, evaded taxes on perks such as free apartments and luxury cars.

In his closing statement at the end of the month-long trial, Assistant DA Joshua Steinglass blasted claims by lawyers for the two Trump companies that former CFO Allen Weisselberg had acted alone.

Following a Supreme Court ruling, the IRS handed over the returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.

An accountant with Mazars USA who prepared the former president's tax returns for years was the first defense witness in the tax fraud trial of two Trump companies.

The judge said depositions of all parties in the case must be completed by March 20.

The court's terse two-sentence order, letting a House committee get six years of Trump's tax returns, marked the fourth time the justices have rejected him over documents since he left office.

The House Ways and Means Committee had been racing the calendar to obtain the records before Republicans assume control of the House in January.

The criminal tax fraud case against a pair of Trump Organization companies playing out in a Manhattan courtroom this month went all the way to trial because of one man: Donald Trump.