*Allen Weisselberg*, CFO Trump Org, gave sworn testimony to state investigators last month!!

[Leghorn21]

Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer and a longtime confidant of Trump, gave sworn testimony to the state investigators over two days last month. He is expected to meet again with the office.

Link to tweet

Sorry, WSJ has a paywall, but this guy has worked at the Org since the days of Fred and holy shit, who needed a bump of good news here tonight?? Well, moi, for one!!!

BRING IT, NY

[soothsayer]

1. Nice

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R!

[2naSalit]

4. This is way better than the ...

Gloom and doom family shitshow.

[SheltieLover]

5. Rhona Graff, too?

Never heard a word about her being interviewed.

[Leghorn21]

7. I'd swear she was at some point, Lover, but a google reveals nothing

[SheltieLover]

9. Ty!

I thought Mueller was going to, bit I never saw a story.

[Leghorn21]

10. Got it - the House did!!

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2020/05/rg20.pdf

Yeah, it’s all coming back now...it was a bust
Dammit

[SheltieLover]

11. Wow! You're good! 😍

She wouldn't talk?

Ty!!!

[Leghorn21]

12. Yeah, she talked, but nothing of interest was learned, apparently

grrrr

[SheltieLover]

13. Ty, Leghorn

Damned disappointing.

[RockRaven]

6. It could all be "I don't remember" and anti-self-incrimination-invokations...

Don't get too excited until there are public court documents with juicy quotations from him.

[Leghorn21]

8. I know, I hear ya, Rock, but dammit...I'm very NEEDY lately, for good GOOD NEWS

but okay, I’ll calm down......somewhat....wannhh

[triron]

14. Hope generating.

[Dopers_Greed]

15. Sounds promising

But don't make a Fitzmas list

[Marie Marie]

16. I was wondering whatever happened to him and his role in any of these investigations.

He came up a while ago and everyone was saying that this is the GUY who knows all about Trump's finances. Oh here's hoping he sang like a beautiful canary.

[DallasNE]

17. Wasn't He Involved In Some Way With The McDougal Hush Money Payment? n/t

[DeminPennswoods]

19. Yes, per Michael Cohen

Trump told him to get Weisselberg to figure out how to do make the payments happen.

[DallasNE]

23. So Weisselberg Put Together The Company

For the purpose of money laundering the $150,000 payment to McDougal and write it off as a business expense meaning the tax payers pick up part of the tab by trump reducing his taxes by about $20,000.

[DeminPennswoods]

24. Cohen set up the LLCs, but

from the taped conversation that was made public between him and Trump discussing the payments, the inference was that Weissleberg would figure out how to do it and Cohen would execute the plan.

[Leghorn21]

20. Yes, D, and the tape of Cohen discussing the situation with bunkerboi is how a lot of us first

became aware of this Weisselberg guy (I remember instantly googling his name and going HOLY SHIT!!!)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/24/the-trump-michael-cohen-tape-transcript-annotated/

[central scrutinizer]

18. Trump will deny knowing him

It’s amazing how many people who are in his inner circle that he doesn’t know

[Leghorn21]

21. This is where a lot of us first heard of Weisselberg - Cohen and rump discuss payoff

Recording starts at 25 seconds in

[dchill]

22. K to the R.