After being grilled on the witness stand, Trump Organization's former CFO Allen Weisselberg is being looked at for committing perjury after taking incoming from a Forbes reporter publishing a story accusing the convicted tax cheat of lying when he claimed he "never focused" on tallying the former president's Manhattan Trump Tower triplex, The Messenger reported.
Forbes senior editor Dan Alexander, who has been a steady chronicler on Trump's business career beat, published a new piece Thursday accusing the former president's accountant of lying under oath during the New York fraud trial.
"Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, lied in sworn testimony on Tuesday when questioned about Donald Trump’s penthouse atop Trump Tower," he wrote.
Hours after the article published, open court proceedings halted.
The Messenger verified with a source close to New York AG Letitia James that she is aware of the Forbes report and is determining whether Weisselberg indeed lied on the stand.
In court, Weisselberg repeatedly insisted that he wasn't putting an emphasis on assessing Trump's penthouse apartment's square footage in his eponymous high rise.
The state attorney general alleges the home in the sky had been listed at 30,000 square feet on financial documents when it instead it actually 10,996 square feet.
Alexander countered, "That's not true."
He continued: "A review of old emails and notes, some of which the attorney general’s office does not possess, show that Weisselberg absolutely thought about Trump’s apartment — and played a key role in trying to convince Forbes over the course of several years that it was worth more than it really was. Given the fact that these discussions continued for years, and that Weisselberg took a very detailed approach in reviewing Trump’s assets with Forbes, it defies all logic to think he truly believes what he is now saying in court."
Alexander was also the same reporter whom the former president this week called a "psycho."
