NY AG seeks 'forensic exam of Trump Org emails' after claims of Allen Weisselberg perjury

Last week, business publication Forbes wrote that longtime Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg had perjured himself during sworn testimony based on years-old emails that Weisselberg had sent the publication in which he tried to convince its reporters that Trump's apartment in Trump Tower was worth more than what they were estimating.

Now The Messenger reports that New York Attorney General Letitia James' office is requesting a "forensic examination of Trump Organization emails" between Weisselberg and Forbes to determine whether he really did lie under oath as Forbes had claimed.

"The failure to produce these later emails indicates a breakdown somewhere in the process of preserving, collecting, reviewing and producing documents," the AG's office said in a letter to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. "This failure also comes in the face of a years-long process to ensure a complete response to OAG’s subpoenas and multiple affidavits on behalf of the Trump Organization attesting to the completion of their production obligations. The failure is also suggestive of potentially broader issues in the production process."

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Because of this, the AG's office requested that a court monitor "undertake a forensic examination of electronic data held by the Trump Organization for the very brief period August to September of 2016."

During his testimony last week at a civil fraud trial in New York City, Weisselberg testified that he never put any thought into the measurements of Trump's apartment, which was listed in some documents as having nearly triple its actual square footage.

Shortly after this, Forbes claimed to have emails that were not in the NY AG's possession showing that Weisselberg's claim simply was not true.