Ex-CFO confesses he certified Trump's financial docs so boss wouldn't default on loans
Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan continued Tuesday with the Trump Organization's former CFO Allen Weisselberg confessing he approved company financial documents so that Trump wouldn't default on loans.
ABC News, which has a running blog update of the trial, cited the moment, revealing that it was he and not Trump who approved loan documents that grossly exaggerated the assets.
Certifying Trump's financial statements were "true, correct and complete," Weisselberg said that he signed them.
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"Please see the attached report required per our loan documents, for the above-referenced loan," someone with the Trump Organization wrote to banks like Wells Fargo, evidence showed.
The employee would then put in a "certification" swearing to the accuracy, signed by Weisselberg.
"Did you understand that if you failed to provide this, the Trump organization would be in breach of its obligations under the loan agreement?" asked state attorney Louis Solomon. She held up each of the emails and asked the question over and over.
"Yes," Weisselberg confessed.
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