New York prosecutors have subpoenaed a Manhattan private school as they seek the cooperation of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer in their investigation of former President Donald Trump and his company, according to people familiar with the matter.
The subpoena seeks information from Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, where grandchildren of Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg are students, the people said. From 2012 to 2019, more than $500,000 of the children’s tuition was paid for with checks signed by either Mr. Weisselberg or Mr. Trump, the two children’s mother, Jennifer Weisselberg, told The Wall Street Journal. She is the former wife of Mr. Weisselberg’s son Barry.
Ms. Weisselberg said she told Manhattan prosecutors that she and Barry understood the tuition payments to be part of her ex-husband’s compensation package at the Trump Organization, where he worked. Former prosecutors not involved in the probe said the Manhattan district attorney’s office could be examining whether the Weisselbergs evaded taxes with the tuition-payment arrangement.
The subpoena marks a separate front in the investigation of Mr. Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office, which has for months been seeking Allen Weisselberg’s cooperation, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Weisselberg has worked for the Trump Organization for decades and is regarded as Mr. Trump’s confidante and his company’s financial gatekeeper. Mr. Weisselberg hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing.
Prosecutors often seek the cooperation of someone possibly involved in a crime to obtain confidential information and provide a potential road map to records or documents. Typically, prosecutors offer a potential defendant leniency in exchange for their help. Putting pressure on a possible defendant’s family is one way to encourage cooperation.
Reminds me of South Africa's former guy, Zuma. He is been investigated for about 15 years and nothing happened so far. Nothing will come out of that. Justice in the word is pathetic, controlled by the ones with money. This happens to any society controlled by profit, capitalism.
Why does Don Jr. always look greasy/slimy in his photos?
some words come to mind -'lock em up'
I hope Allen Weisselberg has a security detail.
Whole neighborhoods destroyed in the era of artificial intelligence, live on air, what next
I miss those mean tweets & 1.56 gas We now have border crisis, war in the Middle East, lumber prices inflation coming, and cancel culture
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Jajaja more hoax waist of tax payers money.
was the headline written by a lawyer? A 38-word paragraph without a full stop
Lock him up!!
And the circle widens!