Former Trump financial lieutenant Allen Weisselberg testifies against two Trump companies

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After working for Trump family businesses for nearly 50 years, Allen Weisselberg, 75, took the witness stand Tuesday and started testifying for prosecutors in the criminal tax fraud case against two of those companies.

state court case and is not expected to appear in court during the trial.quickly testified that he knowingly received $1.7 million of the tax-free benefits during the alleged scheme without telling his tax preparer. in August to 15 criminal counts that parallel the charges against the two companies. The cooperation agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office requires Weisselberg to testify truthfully in exchange for roughly 100 days of incarceration.

Lowering his salary enabled him to continue receiving the tax-free perks and gave the companies a savings via his reduced paycheck, said Weisselberg.The start of Weisselberg's testimony in the trial came hours before an expected announcement by Trump, possibly of a third presidential campaign during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida Tuesday night.

On Monday, Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the trial, granted Steinglass' request to designate McConney as a hostile witness. That enabled the prosecutor to ask leading – yes-or-no – questions which McConney answered.

 

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Wow this shit is a circus shit show Stop try to take down Trump already . Waste even more of our tax dollars. Wake up people Dam...

I’ve known people that have spent more time in jail for failure to appear warrants than the Trumps have. And the Trumps are the actual crooks

Mafiosi.

Nobody in the Trump family will spend one day in jail because of this testimony. Stop continually falling for this

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