Weisselberg, Trump Organization's CFO, gave sworn testimony to NY State investigators over 2 days

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Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus (Wall Street Journal)

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.

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1. "Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer and a longtime confidant of Trump..."

"He is expected to meet again with the office." (NY's A.G.)

And Bill Barr can't do shit about this because it is in NY's state court.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Hoping he dropping lots of dimes on the Trump Organization....

and not spending all of his time taking the 5th.

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6. Fed prosecutors gave Weisselberg full immunity, which means he had to give up everything he knows.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/trump-org-cfo-allen-weisselberg-given-immunity-prosecutors-testify-n903566

I would guess NY AG Letitia James made a similar deal with Weisselberg for NY State. She is an ass-kicker.

[MineralMan]

3. Sauve Qui Peut!

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May he sing like a meadowlark!

[Botany]

11. "May he sing like a meadowlark!"

[northoftheborder]

12. Beautiful bird. We don't have those in this area.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. probably lots of pleading the fifth.

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7. I doubt it. See post #6.

[Thomas Hurt]

15. Nice!

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5. Is there any indication he has tax records?

He certainly does for trump org, but would he have any for trump himself? Those may have been needed to apply for loans for example.

His testimony will almost certainly justify a corrupt enterprise charge against each of the trumpists. That carries an absolutely certain jail sentence (judges can't not give a min amount of I think 1-3 years) of up to 25 years. The bar is not that high to get over from a legal standpoint. Too bad guns weren't involved in any of this. That would raise it up to aggravated criminal enterprise.

But I digress. Trump couldn't prevent him from turning them over since they would part of his defense and plea agreement, to which trump is not a party.

It would be delicious if he had documents that would prove trump falsified his tax returns when providing them to banks. We know he falsified the "summary" sheets he released during the campaign. Getting his real tax returns would prove both of those.

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8. He was the Trump Org's accountant from the 1970's until he resigned a couple years ago

and he has already cooperated with federal prosecutors. See the link in post #6.

Weisselberg knows everything.

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9. yeah, but the feds buried everything.....

Did they get all the copies?

It's a dead cinch certainty that trumps lawyers have everything the fbi collected from him, so there will be no surprises to them. That sucks.

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10. I think this story is why Dump Jr is telling his friends that he thinks the whole family

will be indicted as soon as his father loses in November.

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13. Is this pursuant to possible state charges??

Or federal?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. State.

Meaning that any crimes they turn up are not pardonable by this or any other president.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Rest assured,

he was given immunity in exchange for facts as well as documents. Do hope AG James provides 24/7 protection for this Guy. And they have food tasters.