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Undated: Allen Howard Weisselberg (born August 15, 1947) is an American businessman. He is the chief financial officer (CFO) of The Trump Organization. Weisselberg and Donald Trump Jr. also serve as the two sole trustees of the company, making them the only people who know details of Trump's finances.[1]
He has been subpoenaed by a grand jury to testify in the probe into campaign finance violations and tax and bank fraud by Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty in August 2018 to the charges, implicating Trump in a statement made under oath.[2]
Weisselberg lived in Nassau County on Long Island as of 2005.[5] He appeared as a judge on the seventh episode of the second season of The Apprentice.[12] His son, Jack Weisselberg, is a loan-origination executive at Ladder Capital, which has acted as a lender to the Trump Organization.[13][14][15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weisselberg
-- 2018 --
July 27: The Trump Organization CFO Has Been Called to Testify in the Michael Cohen Probe
So who is Allen Weisselberg, the long-time chief financial officer of the Trump Organization?
Weisselberg has been working with the Trump family since the 1980s, at which time he was hired to work with Trump’s father, Fred, in his real estate firm. He later moved to the Trump Organization, where he reported directly to Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal. He has served as the firm’s CFO for years, taking on more responsibility—along with Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump—after the president’s election in 2016.
In addition to his role at the Trump Organization, Weisselberg also served as treasurer of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which is the subject of a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General’s office. He was also on the board of the Miss Universe Organization during the period in which the pageant was owned by Trump, and was once a vice president of Trump’s Atlantic City casino company.
Weisselberg is now considered a witness in the ongoing investigation of Cohen for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations. It is unclear whether he has already appeared before the grand jury or not, nor what questions will be or have been asked of him.
http://fortune.com/2018/07/27/who-is-allen-weisselberg-trump-finance-chief/
August 24: Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg granted immunity in Cohen probe
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/longtime-trump-organization-cfo-weisselberg-granted-immunity-in-cohen-probe-dj-citing-sources.html
August 24: Trump on Weisselberg: ‘He Did Whatever Was Necessary’
Perhaps the most important person in the Trump Organization has had the lowest profile. Until he agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/24/donald-trump-allen-weisselberg-cfo-219598
August 24: Why the Allen Weisselberg immunity deal may be the biggest news of this bananas week
"Follow the money."
Those three words -- which first emerged in the Watergate scandal and have become the iconic call to arms for investigative journalists everywhere -- tell you exactly why the news that Allen Weisselberg was granted immunity in the investigation into Michael Cohen is such a gigantic deal.
Weisselberg is the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization -- but he's so much more than that. Hired first by Trump's father, Weisselberg has been the money man in Trump's orbit for decades. And, he didn't just handle finances for the Trump Organization but also for Trump's personal accounts.
As the man in charge of the money, he was/is uniquely positioned to explain to prosecutors how Cohen was paid back for the $130,000 he gave to Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford). Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer, broke news on that front in May when he made clear that Trump had repaid Cohen the money -- despite Trump's denials a month earlier that he had no idea about the payment or where the money for it came from.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/24/politics/allen-weisselberg-trump/index.html
-- 2019 --
February 28: The Trump Organization's coming "proctology exam"
Near the end of Michael Cohen's testimony yesterday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked the former fixer whether President Trump had ever run an insurance fraud. Cohen said yes, naming three Trump Organization executives: Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari.
Why it matters: Cohen offered no proof for this allegation — and given his record of lying, his claims can't be believed without evidence. But by making this allegation — and coughing up the names of the executives — Cohen gave House investigators and federal prosecutors yet another trail to chase.
https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-hearing-trump-organization-executives-119c11fc-e84e-4796-8e07-da631e140f3e.html
March 2: Former Trump Executive Claims His CFO Could Reveal More Hush-Money Payments
“Trump would do that kind of thing, and Allen would be the guy that would draw up the check.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/trump-res-weisselberg-hush-money/
March 2: Weisselberg is so important to the investigations of Trump that prosecutors in Manhattan have reportedly offered him immunity in order to get his cooperation with their efforts.
So it may be some time before the Justice Department could authorize him to talk to Congress — but that isn't stopping lawmakers from asking for him.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699309857/who-from-trump-world-do-house-democrats-likely-want-to-talk-to-next
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