All posts tagged "Perjury"

Donald Trump's own biographer says the ex-president may have recently perjured himself.

Tim O'Brien, the author of Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald, appeared on Saturday on MSNBC's Weekends With Alex Witt, where he was asked about Trump's recent social media post that appears to contradict what he has argued before a judge in court.

"Is there reason to believe that he has the money, even if it contradicts his lawyer's claims they're struggling to secure a bond? Is it worth noting that he has not contributed his own money to his presidential campaign since 2016?" the host asked....

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump in his $370 million civil fraud trial Wednesday called Judge Arthur Engoron’s demand for information about Allen Weisselberg’s potential perjury plea deal “unprecedented, inappropriate and troubling."

Engoron Monday demanded information about a New York Times report that Weisselberg may have perjured himself during testimony given in the civil fraud trial, but attorney Clifford Robert retorted he had no reason to do so.

“The Article simply does not provide any principled basis for the Court to reopen the record or question the veracity of Mr. Weisselberg's testimony in this case,” Robert wrote in the letter, which later appeared in New York's court record database. ...

The New York Attorney General’s office urged Arthur Engoron Wednesday not to delay ruling on the $370 million civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump after the judge raised questions about possible perjury during the trial, court records show.

Engoron Monday demanded information about a New York Times report on Allen Weisselberg’s possible perjury plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which the report suggested was linked to testimony the former Trump Organization chief financial officer gave on the stand.

“We are not involved in any negotiations and are unaware of what specific trial testimony may be the subject of the plea negotiations,” prosecutors wrote in response. ...

Former President Donald Trump has been put on notice that there are serious consequences for lying in court, said former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman on MSNBC Friday.

This comes amid reporting that Allen Weisselberg, the ex-president's former CFO at the Trump Organization, is in talks to take a guilty plea for perjury.

"Andrew, help me understand how this plays out, what you make of this," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "Would a plea take an important chess piece off the board in this case?"...

The judge who holds the fate of Donald Trump's real estate empire in a stroke of his pen is likely stalling to deliver a verdict now that it was learned the Trump Organization's former finance chief Allen Weisselberg is negotiating a deal to plead guilty to perjury.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig appeared on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins to explain how it's more than likely Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron requested more time to render a verdict in the $370 million civil fraud trial now that he and the world know that Weisselberg is hashing out a plea.

"If I'm in Judge Engoron's position here, and getting ready to issue a big verdict and ruling, and now I've heard this, and we've all heard it, that one of the key witnesses committed perjury in front of me — I slam on the brakes and say, 'I'm not going to rule until I know the specifics of this,'" he said. ...

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. ...