All posts tagged "Allen Weisselberg"

Lawyers for Donald Trump in the New York fraud case tried to falsely implicate Michael Cohen again in emails to Judge Arthur Engoron, who was presiding over the New York fraud trial. It backfired again.

Judge Engoron was so infuriated that he issued a blistering email.

Allen Howard Weisselberg, former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was reported to have lied in Engoron's courtroom during his testimony, prompting the District Attorney's office to explore perjury charges. Raw Story explained on Wednesday that this isn't the first time Weisselberg has been purportedly caught in a lie, the first of which being in Michael Cohen's case. ...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a new weapon in his fight to prosecute former President Donald Trump for business fraud, said former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance on MSNBC Thursday: keep his former top accountant off the witness stand for the defense.

This comes amid reporting that prosecutors in his office are trying to work out a perjury plea deal for former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, a witness in past Trump litigation who has largely remained loyal to the Trump family.

"I think [it's] a very important word of caution that is not inked by any stretch and could absolutely fall apart," said anchor Alex Wagner. "If it does go through, what are the implications for other witnesses in Trump's orbit who are watching the treatment of Allen Weisselberg?"...

Donald Trump’s former finance chief Allen Weisselberg is negotiating a deal to plead guilty to perjury, according to a new report.

Weisselberg is in talks with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to potentially admit he lied in the witness box in Trump’s $370 million civil fraud trial and during an interview with the New York Attorney General’s office, according to the New York Times.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last year indicted Trump over hush money payments they say he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels, the New York Times notes. ...