Trump’s convicted finance chief Allen Weisselberg plays down sketchy numbers in fraud trial
The loyal moneyman who oversaw Trump's company coffers for a half-century and went to jail for committing tax fraud as CFO took the stand in
Judge
The judge's stunning pretrial ruling ordered Trump stripped of his
During the non-jury case now on trial, Engoron will consider the AG's remaining six claims. They focus on the conspiracy underlying the valuation scheme and the methods Trump and his crew employed to carry it out.
James says Weisselberg oversaw the preparation of Trump's annual "statements of financial condition" that wildly overstated the value of assets like his skyscrapers and golf courses to banks and lenders by as high as
The AG wants to stop Trump and his codefendants from ever heading a
Weisselberg, who in 2015 described himself as Trump's "eyes and ears from a financial standpoint," on Tuesday declined to shed much light on the paperwork central to the case, answering "I don't know" or "I don't recall" to scores of questions by AG lawyer
Weisselberg said his was memory was fuzzy about conversations he may or may not have had with Trump and his ex-lawyer,
The CFO placed Trump closer to the action later in his testimony when he told Solomon he shared the statements with Trump before they were finalized from 2011 until his election in 2016.
Weisselberg said Trump sometimes had input – like telling his finance chief to describe his properties as "beautiful" rather than "magnificent."
But the CFO largely downplayed his boss's fraud.
Faced with a document signed by Trump proving he knew his
He acknowledged awareness of the discrepancy but insisted the price tag of his boss's
"(The) value of that apartment relative to his net worth is not material – it's about 1%," Weisselberg testified.
The CFO, who made at least
Weisselberg served 99 days in jail for stiffing the tax man on
It wasn't clear Tuesday who among Trump's lawyers was handling Weisselberg's defense in the AG's case.
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