Adelson Institute checks
Forty-four payroll checks drawn on an Adelson Institute account, each for $407.58 and signed by Donna Adelson, were issued to Katherine Magbanua over approximately two years. The prosecution cited the payment series in a motion for judgment of acquittal proceeding in the Donna Adelson 2025 trial. In the Charlie Adelson 2023 trial, defense counsel recharacterized the checks as routine payroll of approximately $1,000 per month and offered an innocent explanation for their batched delivery.
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Documents a sustained financial relationship between Donna Adelson and Magbanua spanning the period relevant to the conspiracy; the competing characterizations of the payments — prosecution as irregular, defense as routine payroll — made this exhibit a contested point across two trials.