During his closing argument Friday in the criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization, Manhattan assistant district attorney Joshua Steinglass showed jurors a memo initialed by former President Donald Trump.

In the memo, Trump Organization chief operating officer Matthew Calamari asked the company’s controller, Jeffrey McConney, to reduce his salary by $72,000, the amount the Trump Organization paid for his rent in 2012. Prosecutors have argued the process of “backing out” personal expenses from executives’ salaries was one way the Trump Organization avoided taxes in the later years of the alleged fraud scheme.

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