Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, has surrendered to New York authorities, according to US media reports, ahead of criminal charges expected to be announced later on Thursday against him and the former president’s company.
The Trump Organization issued a blistering statement, accusing prosecutors of using Mr Weisselberg, “a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather”, as “a pawn in a scorched earth attempt to harm the former president”.Lawyers for Mr Weisselberg said he “intends to plead not guilty and he will fight these charges in court”. He reportedly entered the court complex through a back entrance early on Thursday morning. The Manhattan DA and the attorney-general did not comment.
“In my more than 50 years of practice, never before have I seen the district attorney’s office target a company over employee compensation or fringe benefits,” Mr Fischetti said last week.In recent months, Mr Weisselberg has become a focus of prosecutors, who hoped to convince the man who once described himself as Mr Trump’s “eyes and ears” to aid their investigation into a private business that features hundreds of byzantine partnerships.
Mr Vance, who leaves office at the end of this year, will have to hand any case on to a successor. His current probe has been overshadowed by criticism for dropping a previous investigation of the Trump Organization, in 2012, which stemmed from condominium-buyer complaints that Donald jnr and Ivanka had misled them. The parties later settled.
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