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Last week's convictions of two Donald Trump companies for criminal tax fraud may help ensure Trump's business remains under court-ordered supervision, former Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said.

CFO Weisselberg used the free cash to live large, saving the Trump Organization from paying taxes on it as well.

Former President Donald Trump's attempt to derail evidence gathering in New York's $250 million civil fraud suit against him and his company is a "baseless" delay tactic, the state's attorney general told a judge.

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.

The Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, testified that greed fueled a scheme he says he engaged in with the firm's controller and the two Trump companies standing trial.

Allen Weisselberg told the jury that soon after he pleaded guilty, the firm booted him off the prestige floor on which Donald Trump worked.

Democrats on the tax-writing House and Ways Means Committee are asking the Justice Department and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to investigate.

New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed on Monday ruled that Mary Trump waived her right to sue her uncle and aunt, former federal judge Maryanne Trump, in a 2001 settlement.

The criminal tax fraud trial of two Trump Organization companies saw some drama — and a win for the prosecution.

Donald Trump himself was aware of allegedly abusive tax practices at his company, testimony at the criminal fraud trial of two Trump Organization business units suggested.

The former president's company is blocked from issuing financial statements that don't disclose the "assumptions and techniques" used to value its assets.