Witness offers new evidence Allen Weisselberg potentially gave false testimony

Claudia Mouradian, an underwriter in Zurich North America’s commercial insurance division, testified on Tuesday that Allen Weisselberg told her things about the way appraisals worked at the Trump Organization that appear to directly contradict testimony he made earlier this month.

Law360's Stewart Bishop reported that Mouradian, during her testimony at the Trump civil fraud trial in New York, said that the longtime Trump Organization CFO told her that Trump's properties "held onto their value year after year with little fluctuation." She then said that Weisselberg told her they used appraisal firms like Cushman & Wakefield and Newmark Group as third parties to determine the property values.

Prosecutors showed her earlier Weisselberg testimony in which he said that they never used appraisals to value Trump's properties for the "statements of financial condition."

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She testified: "It was not consistent with what he told me."

In the cross-examination, Trump's lawyers focused on trying to get Mouradian to confirm that the company found Trump's company to be an important client.

Tuesday's testimony comes after the magazine Forbes accused Weisselberg of lying during sworn testimony by claiming he never used Trump's penthouse apartment in Trump Tower when evaluating the former president's net worth, when old emails between Weisselberg in Forbes reporters showed the Trump CFO pressing the case that the Trump Tower apartment should factor into the magazine's estimates of his total value.

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