Trump Organization, CFO plead not guilty to tax crimes

Allen Weisselberg, former US President Donald Trump’s company chief financial officer, sits in court in lower Manhattan in New York

The Trump Organization - owner of Trump Tower in New York - is an unlisted family holding company that owns golf clubs, hotels and luxury properties

Donald Trump's company and its long-serving finance chief pleaded not guilty in a New York court Thursday after they were charged with fraud and tax crimes, in a major blow to the former president.

The investigations also center on eight years of Trump's tax returns, obtained by the prosecutors in February after a long legal battle that went to the Supreme Court.