Prosecutors Investigating the Trump Organization Zero In on Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg

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Prosecutors Investigating the Trump Organization Zero In on Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg
Weisselberg is one of the Trump Organization’s longest tenured employees and is now co-running the business. He escaped federal prosecution for the Stormy Daniels payments but is now a focus of an investigation by Manhattan’s district attorney.
by Peter Elkind Nov. 21, 10:51 a.m. EST


Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s criminal investigation of the Trump Organization is scrutinizing the actions of one of the president’s oldest and most trusted deputies, ProPublica has learned.

The focus on Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, a 72-year-old accountant now running the business with Trump’s two adult sons, stems from his involvement in arranging a payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump (which Trump has denied).

Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, or SDNY, contended that the Trump Organization had improperly booked reimbursements for the hush-money scheme as “legal expenses,” with the aid of sham invoices. They granted legal immunity to Weisselberg and later closed their 18-month investigation with the guilty plea of one Trump associate, Michael Cohen. But Weisselberg’s immunity deal applied only to federal proceedings.

Now Vance’s state grand jury is examining whether Weisselberg, among others — and even the Trump Organization — should face state criminal charges for falsification of business records, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Neither Weisselberg nor the Trump Organization responded to requests for comment. Vance, through a spokesman, declined to comment.

A handful of lawyers and investigators from Vance’s office, led by Chris Conroy, chief of the DA’s major economic crimes bureau, traveled to the federal minimum-security prison camp in Otisville, New York, on Oct. 30 to meet for the third time with Cohen, who is serving a three-year prison sentence, according to two sources knowledgeable about the matter. Much of the discussion involved Weisselberg.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/prosecutors-investigating-the-trump-organization-zero-in-on-trump-cfo-allen-weisselberg

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I suspect that lots were falsified, faked, or whatever. Seems like with all of the time rump...

spent for example in this whole Ukraine mess, he's hasn't a wit of crap as president for the US. Think of it. All of the people he's been jawboning, trying to get them to do illegal acts, and such, and look at the fraud and history surrounding his university (fake), the fraud in donations (I'm sure a great deal of these so called deductions he's claimed are fake (just like his foundation, fake))...as it's looking more and more, he's a total fake. Weisselberg did this faking of receipts and/or business records, etc. at the behest of one person and one person only...our fake president Donald 'the fake' president.

[bluestarone]

2. trump will say i did nothing wrong!

It was ALL Weisselberg!

[OhNo-Really]

3. Gee, what the hurry?

[Roland99]

4. K&R

[triron]

5. Why are prosecutors always going after aids to Trump and not him or his immediate family?

[struggle4progress]

6. "Since I know the President, I can claim executive privilege!"

[crickets]

7. Good. K&R