Allen Weisselberg, the former CFO of Trump Org, is on five years probation for his conviction in the tax fraud case brought against him by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. The conditions include that he testify in subsequent cases and that he not be convicted of other crimes. It seems that people around Don 'Legit' have a problem with truth-telling as does the boss himself.
Weisselberg testified in the civil fraud case brought by the New York Attorney General this week. According to a journalist who has followed the misfortunes of the Trump's business empire he may have committed perjury. Dan Alexander of Forbes magazine accused the Weisselberg of perjury in an article on Thursday. One of the lies Trump used to inflate his worth on financial documents is the size of his penthouse apartment. He reported it as 30,000 sq.ft. when is just shy of 11,000. Weisselberg testified he did not consider the size of the apartment when calculating Trump's net worth, calling it "de minimus" several times during his testimony. Alexander says communications and reporters' notes show Weisselberg actually did take into consideration the apartment's size during a dispute with Forbes over the its value. Eventually after more than three years of discussion, Weisselberg convinced reporters that it was worth more than the figures Forbes used after accepting the 30,000 sq. ft. figure. Trump even gave Forbes reporters a tour of the apartment, during which he emphasized the size of his pad. Subsequently in 2016 Forbes found property tax records that listed the apartment at 10,996.
Trumpilini, in his usual ad hominem fashion has called Alexander a "psycho writer". Chalk up another defamation suit for Trumpillini. He has been at war with the "globalist rag" since it dropped him from its infamous richest list due to his twisting of financial facts. AG Letitia James is aware of the reporting from Forbes and is evaluating whether Weisselberg should be prosecuted for perjury. That is bad news for Weisselberg since a conviction would mean he would go back to jail to serve the remainder of his tax fraud sentence.
Way down home in Ft. Pierce, the MAGA jurist is up to her tricks again. She has apparently settled on a strategy of incremental delays in scheduling the Mar-a-Lago trial--which is almost entirely in her discretion-- that do not give the government an opportunity to file an interlocutory appeal to the Eleventh Circuit. She terminated a Garcia hearing on potential conflicts of interest among defense attorneys this week after chastising a government attorney for wasting the court's time. The government wanted to restrict co-defendant Nauta's attorney Woodward from cross examining a government witness since Woodward represented the witness previously during grand jury proceedings. Defense counsel objected to arguing this issue since it was not raised prior to the hearing. The judge agreed saying,“I do want to admonish the government for frankly wasting the court’s time,” Cannon said. She added she was “disappointed” that David Harbach, one of the prosecutors, had raised the request without warning, and without citing supporting cases from the southern district of Florida. And so it goes.
