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"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Boardwalks. It's day three of a nurse's strike in New York City, nurses and Mount Sinai and montefiore say they are on the picket lines because of understaffing issues. It's just not safe. The days are incredibly overwhelming and stressful. And montefiore both sides are talking and said that they are close. Former Trump organization chief financial officer Allen weisselberg spent his first night in Rikers Island, as he begins his sentence for pleading guilty last year to tax fraud. Weisselberg was sentenced to 5 months in jail as part of a pre arranged plea agreement with the Manhattan district attorney's office. Global news, 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts and more than a 120 countries. I'm Michael Barr and this is Bloomberg, Nathan. Thanks, Michael. And now it's time for the Bloomberg sports update brought to you by tri state out. Good morning, John Stan shower. Good morning, Nathan safe to say no one's ever had a more bizarre off season than Carlos Correa. He was a free agent a year ago signed a late deal with Minnesota opted out, cut a deal with San Francisco where they scheduled his introductory press conference and then canceled it hours before it was to take place amid concerns about an ankle injury, so Correa pivoted and agreed to a deal with the mets who then had similar concerns about that ankle. Let's try to keep Correa, but with changes to the original agreement, Correa balked at that he is instead going back to Minnesota 6 year deal for 200 million, could turn out to be longer and more lucrative, but the deals
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"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"From Bloomberg radio. You're listening to a special yearend edition of Bloomberg law. Looking back at some of the biggest legal issues over the past year. I'm June brasso. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. When you have the namesake company of former president of the United States, held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, it's tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, got Kirk, so I'm talking about the company CFO Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment buildings as well as their car licenses and registration carries forward. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even like weisselberg got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from ABC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got these perks and they claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. They're still being paid. They're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were behold and still to the Trump company and wanted it inflicted little damage upon their employer, the Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the VA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million in fines for not having their employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's all three for a company like Trump or why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name and goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction because why would you want to do business with a felon. In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, find checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments. And you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharpie okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executive getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments to these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that show he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the public may be moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know that the witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something for conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, terrible for you to go home to a cold house in Long Island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get in an apartment in Manhattan? And you can work longer hours. So different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump personally. And Donald Trump was personally paying for twice a first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, a private school person, but you're quite a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks authorizing the payments by Trump. And then later on when Trump became president, who took over Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.. So weisselberg testified, yep, there it was. I had to go to Eric and dawn, and they signed the check. Authorizing the payment for the private school tuition. And then during the closing arguments, the prosecutor actually argued that Trump knew exactly what was going on. Joshua steine glass said, this whole narrative that Donald Trump is blissfully ignorant is just not real. Actually, with stunning because he got up at one point and he said, I'm going to argue now that Trump knew and defense got up there and said, objection, the objection there was an instruction that your classification of which model allowed to argue Trump knew because tops on indicted and exotic defense table and the judge told them, well, you're the ones who brought Donald Trump into the discussion. You kept saying he didn't know, well now the DA gets to argue to the jury what they have that he did know that you
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of the biggest legal issues over the past year. I'm June Grasso. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. I'm gonna have the namesake company of a former president of the United States held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, and I'm talking about the company's CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment building as well as their car licenses and registration carries forward. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even like rifle Burke got flat screen CDs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from APC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got these Kirk and the Nate claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. They're still being paid. They're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were behold and still to the Trump company and wanted it inflicted little damage upon their employer. The Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million in fines for not having their employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's paltry for a company like Trump or why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name and goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, signed checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments and you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharpie okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executives getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments to these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that show he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether a witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence selling Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something for conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there. It's terrible for you to go home to a cold house in Long Island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get in an apartment in Manhattan and you can work longer hours, so different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump personally now. And Donald Trump was personally paying for twice a first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, their private school commission, which is quite a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks authorizing the payments by Trump. And then later on when Trump became president, who took over Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.. So weisselberg testified, yep, there it was. I had to go to Eric and dawn and they signed the check. Authorizing the payment for the private school tuition. And then during the closing arguments, the prosecutor actually argued that Trump knew exactly what was going on. Joshua Stein glass said, this whole narrative that Donald Trump is blissfully ignorant is just not real. Actually, with stunning because he got up at one point and he said, I'm going to argue now that Trump knew and defense got up there and said, objection, if you actually, there was an instruction that your prosecution was not allowed to argue Trump knew because Trump saw indicted an exotic defense table. And the judge told them, well, you're the one who brought Donald Trump into this discussion. You kept saying he didn't know, well now the DA gets to argue to the jury what they have that he did know that you opened the door. So they basically fell into the trap of the judge now allowing the prosecutors to start arguing and show evidence. For prosecutors noted, Trump actually had an open door policy. He actually enjoyed talking to employees at the Trump corporation and hearing about what was going on at his company. Jeff mccarney could have blown the whistle at any time, yet he never went to Trump and said, your CFO is making me commit fraud. Your COO is also making me commit fought. This wasn't just makani following orders. It wasn't just the soldiers. He was a co-conspirator. And the other reason he didn't walk down the hall to blow the whistle is because he undoubtedly knew what you almost already at least that Donald Trump knew exactly what was going on with his top executive. And that was a pretty dramatic moment. Right now says that the investigation is continuing and this trial is just one chapter in it, but he had dropped the ball on the prosecution of Trump, and that was very well publicized. Now he's back on track? Well, he has insisted throughout this entire time period and also in the middle of the turmoil and controversy over the
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"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is Bloomberg law with June grosso from Bloomberg radio. You're listening to a special yearend edition of Bloomberg law. Looking back at some of the biggest legal issues over the past year. I'm June Grasso. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. You have the namesake company of former president of the United States, held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg, to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, some talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment building as well as their car licenses and registration cared for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even likewise got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from APC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got these perks and they claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg, as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. They're still being paid. They're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were beholden still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict as little damage upon their employer. The Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million in fine for not having their employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's all three for a company like Trump or why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name and goodwill of the company that belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, signed checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments and you saw his signature in initial with a black sharpie okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executives getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments or these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that shows he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something or conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for you to go home to a cold house and learn an island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get in an apartment in Manhattan and you can work longer hours, so different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump personally now. And Donald Trump was personally paying for twice a first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, their private school commission, but you kind of a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks authorizing the payments by Trump and then later on when Trump became president who took over Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.. So weisselberg testified, yep, there it was. I had to go to Eric and dawn, and they signed the check. Authorizing the payment for the private school tuition. And then during the closing arguments, the prosecutor actually argued that Trump knew exactly what was going on. Joshua stained glass said, this whole narrative that Donald Trump is blissfully ignorant is just not real. Actually, with stunning because he got if at one point and he said, I'm going to argue now that Trump knew and defense got up there and said objection objection there was an instruction that just got a speech in which not allowed to argue Trump knew because tops on indicted and exotic defense table. And the judge told them, well, you're the one who brought Donald Trump into this discussion. You kept saying he didn't know, well now the DA gets to argue to the jury what they have that he did know that you
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"June grosso from Bloomberg radio. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. When you have the namesake company of a former president of the United States, held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, it's tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, and I'm talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment buildings as well as their car licenses and registration carries for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even likewise oberg got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from ABC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got the Kirk and the Nate claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. There's still being paid. You're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were beholden still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict his little damage upon their employer, the Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million and fine for not having your employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's paltry for a company like Trump or why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name, a goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, signed checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments. And you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharky okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executive getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments or these leads for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that show he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something or conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for you to go home to a cold house in Long Island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get in an apartment in Manhattan? And you can work longer hours, so different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Law with June Grasso from Bloomberg radio. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. You have the namesake company of a former president of the United States held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, got perks, and I'm talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment building as well as their car licenses and registration carries for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even like rifle Burke got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from ABC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got these Kirk and they claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited about weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. They're still being paid. You're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were behold and still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict his little damage upon their employer, the Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million in fine for not having your employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's paltry for a company like Trump court. Why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name and goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, signed checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments and you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharpie okay these payments you saw him approving certain executive getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments to these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that showed he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know that a witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something for conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is Bloomberg law with June grosso from Bloomberg radio. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. I'm going to have the namesake company of a former president of the United States held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, it's tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, some talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment buildings as well as their car licenses and registration cared for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even likewise will Burke got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from ABC arc. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got the Kirk and the Nate claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. There's still being paid. You're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were beholden still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict his little damage upon their employer, the Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million and fine for not having your employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's paltry for a company like Trump court. Why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name, a goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president, he obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, find checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okay, certain bonus payments. And you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharky, okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executive getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments or these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that showed he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something for conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for you to go home to a cold house in Warren island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get into the department in Manhattan? And you can work longer hours. So different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump personally now. And Donald Trump was personally paying for twice a first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, a private school person, but you're quite a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks authorizing the payments by Trump. And then later on when Trump became president, who took over, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
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"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Indicating Donald Trump personally now and his sons also approved a conversation that weisselberg had where Donald Trump was talking to one of the employees and he was indicating to them that he was going to okay and authorize paying for the private school tuition of his grandchildren. It's called Columbia grammar and prep school in a private school in the upper west side of Manhattan. So while silver is standing there and it says, hey, you know, my grandson, I want my grandson to go there. And Donald Trump goes, okay, yeah. And he goes, oh, don't worry, I'll pay you back. So Donald Trump was personally paying for weisselberg first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, a private school commission, which is quite a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks, and they thought it seemed safe to and approved by Trump. And then later on when Trump became president, who took over Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.. So weisselberg testified, yep, there it was. I had to go to Eric and Don and they signed the check. Authorizing the payment for the private school tuition. So the DA in the end, he actually was stunning because he got up at one point and he said, I'm going to argue now that Trump knew and defense got up there and said, objection, if you actually, there was an instruction from it that you couldn't worry, you know, just classification of which not allowed to argue Trump knew because chops on indicted and he's not at the defense table. And the judge told them, well, you're the one who brought Donald Trump into this discussion. You kept saying he didn't know, well now the DA gets to argue to the jury what they have that did know that you opened the door. So they basically fell into the trap of the judge now allowing the prosecutors to start arguing and show evidence. And that was a pretty dramatic moment. Coming up next on the Bloomberg long show, I'll continue this conversation with Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Herta, and we'll talk about what the prosecutor is said to the jury about Trump in the closing arguments, also, why wasn't Trump charged personally and is the Manhattan district attorney's office still pursuing cases against Trump. I'm June grass on your listening to
Mark Levin
Allen Weisselberg Testifies Trump Family Not Involved in Tax Fraud
"Don't want to pass up on this There was testimony today in a courtroom in New York City How about the Trump organization And Alan weisselberg a senior adviser former chief financial officer at former president Trump's organization He said he conspired with a subordinate to hide more than a decade's worth of extras from his taxable income Ready And I quote but that neither Trump nor the family were involved Excuse me But neither Trump nor the family were involved Can you tell me why that's not the leading story on every single cable news show I haven't even seen it once Can you tell me why that's not the lead story the headline at the New York Post front page Let's see if it is tomorrow Can you see if this is going to be the headline on one of the editorials from the office nerds at The Wall Street Journal Maybe it'll be a headline at the national review legal analyst Andy McCarthy He'll jump into this no question about that Let's just see Ladies and gentlemen how much the media how much the media focus on this
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Officer. Allen weisselberg. And you think George is tough when you see Alex? Alan weisselberg played a bit role on the apprentice, but he'll be the star of the criminal trial of the Trump organization, albeit a reluctant one. Weisselberg was the company's CFO, the money man for decades. And now he'll testify for the prosecution against the company he still employed by. As prosecutors try to prove the Trump organization routinely lowballed its tax exposure by paying senior executives with perks like company cars, unreported cash, and rent free apartments. Joining me is Greg Farrell, Bloomberg, senior legal reporter. Trump has not been charged personally in the case, but it seems like his presence is looming over the jury selection, where all the jurors ask questions about their feelings about Trump? Yes, June, absolutely. In fact, the questionnaire that all the potential jurors had filled out had a number of questions that tried to elicit their feelings about Trump as a person as a politician. Then there's another set of questions that's interesting about whether or not you feel that corporations have an obligation to pay their fair share of taxes. So you can usually reverse engineer these questionnaires into what interests each set of lawyers had, and obviously the lawyers for the Trump corporation wanted to see how deep the bias is. And I saw a clear example of it. All the jurors say to the question, can you render a fair and impartial verdict based on the evidence? And they all say yes to varying degrees of certainty, but one guy it was clear that he was not a Trump fan, one of the lawyers for the Trump organization asked him, well, why do you think you can be fair then? And he said, listen, the guy's no morals. He's a criminal. He's a fraud, but he's caused so much damage in such a large scale that something like this kind of a small potatoes. Okay, I could be fair on that. So obviously he did not make the cut. He was struck from the panel. But some jurors who are not fans of Trump were put on the jury, so they're not looking for a juror who has no feelings about Trump because I don't think they could find that. No, I don't think there's like fine 5 people in the United States of America above the age of 18 who have no opinion of Trump that would be impossible. But there's a certain amount of strategy that goes on with selecting the jury as well. And that is one Trump lawyer said no, that on the island of Manhattan, it's a fairly severe 80 20 or even 90 ten split between the anti Trump deep blue liberal state feelings and Trump supporters. And they've got a limited number of peremptory challenges. So I think they realize they're going to have to settle some people who are not Trump fans, but strike them as reasonably reliable that they can follow the evidence. So that I think is their game right now. I thought this was odd. The prosecutors told prospective jurors that the government star witness may be reluctant to answer questions. So they're taken on the weisselberg factor right away? Yes. And the voir dire process, there's first of all, just the answering of the questions on the jury questionnaire, so you find out what the potential jurors, political views might be, or just other things, like basic facts about married single native New York or blah, blah, blah. But then going to the next level, this is interesting at state court. You have a representative of the DA's office, speak for about 30 minutes, and it's kind of like a Osaka game show. He now knows a lot about the 18 jurors were sitting in the box, and he can call them by name and say like you mentioned something yesterday, sir about you ran a business. Can you tell me more about that? And do you think it's fair for a business like you could actually engage with that? As part of his presentation, also, is to prepare the jury the potential hold jury for what the case will be, which is not like a sexy thing with lots of videos, but it's going to be very dry, accounting driven lots of spreadsheets and receipts and things like that and tax forms are going to be up on the board. So to that end, also wanted to prepare the potential jury for the fact that, yes, we have someone who pled guilty to these crimes and he might not be as forthright with you as he should because, you know, internal pressure for guys worked for the organization for his career, you know, Mike, I have difficulty having marinated in that culture for decades, have difficulty stepping out of it and giving you a full answer. And he says, you can credit that. Use your common sense. As to whether or not you believe someone's telling the truth, or if there have been pressured or if they're just trying to avoid answering something. What is weisselberg's position? He's not cooperating with the prosecution, but he's testifying for them in their case against the Trump organization. I mean, good question. He is not necessarily cooperating with the DA's investigation of Donald Trump the person. However, once a last minute attempt to get this case thrown out in early August failed, and it was going to go to trial. He did the math and made a very rational decision. And he and his lawyers reached a deal with the DA's office if I plead guilty to the charges you've been filed. Can you cap my jail time at 5 months? And the prosecutors agreed to it. And as part of that agreement, he has to testify truthfully at trial. So there's a bit of risk here for the DA's office, however, if weisselberg abides by that and testifies truthfully and he's asked about whether or not any of these perks went to Trump family members, a, I think they'll be able to prove that because they have to documentation, but B, who knew about it and did the recipients know that this is something that probably would cause problems on taxes. That is probably going to be the most interesting part of the trial. His testimony and that fine line that he's trying to straddle between not cooperating against Donald Trump because he's not been cast out of Trump land yet. And because he's on leave of absence, I think Trump is paying his legal bills. So it's a very delicate dance. It's not a simple plea deal with cooperation. For those who are not aware of his Trump family connections, tell us a little bit about weisselberg. Well, he goes back to Trump's father, Fred Trump. Fred Trump is the founder of the Trump real estate dynasty or success story. Starting in 1973, he was working for Fred Trump's organization in accounting and eventually through the 80s moved up in his Donald Trump game to take over the business in the 1990s, became Trump's guy, comptroller, and eventually CFO of the Trump organization and a number of its subsidiaries. So he's been the CFO of the Trump organization for the least 20, 25 years. If you remember the TV show the apprentice, he would show up sometimes. In the series demeanor is the Trump with the family out to present the serious business that America was introduced to through that show. So he's been basically it's entire career. His adult life and his wealth. And he's become wealthy because he's been paid well, comes through the Trump organization and Donald Trump. So that's another factor. So is this trial just going to be about the perks that were not reported? The perks, the cars, the apartment, the hiding
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Officer. Allen weisselberg. And you think George is tough when you see Alex Alan weisselberg played a bit role on the apprentice, but he'll be the star of the criminal trial of the Trump organization, albeit a reluctant one. Weisselberg was the company's CFO, the money man for decades. And now he'll testify for the prosecution against the company he still employed by. As prosecutors try to prove the Trump organization routinely lowballed its tax exposure by paying senior executives with perks like company cars, unreported cash, and rent free apartments. Joining me is Greg Farrell, Bloomberg, senior legal reporter. Trump has not been charged personally in the case, but it seems like his presence is looming over the jury selection, where all the jurors ask questions about their feelings about Trump? Yes, June, absolutely. In fact, the questionnaire that all the potential jurors had fill out had a number of questions that tried to elicit their feelings about Trump as a person as a politician. Then there's another set of questions that's interesting about whether or not you feel that corporations have an obligation to pay their fair share of taxes. So you can usually reverse engineer these questionnaires into what interests each set of lawyers had, and obviously the lawyers for the Trump corporation wanted to see how deep the bias is. And I saw a clear example of it. All the jurors say to the question, can you render a fair and impartial verdict based on the evidence? And they all say yes to varying degrees of certainty, but one guy it was clear that he was not a Trump fan, one of the lawyers for the Trump organization, asked him well, why do you think you can be fair then? And he said, listen, the guy's no morals. He's a criminal. He's a fraud, but he's caused so much damage in such a large scale that something like this kind of a small potatoes. Okay, I could be fair in that. So obviously he did not make the cut. He was struck from the panel. But some jurors who are not fans of Trump were put on the jury, so they're not looking for a juror who has no feelings about Trump because I don't think they could find that. No, I don't think there's fine 5 people in the United States of America above the age of 18 who have no opinion of Trump that would be impossible. But there's a certain amount of strategy that goes on with selecting the jury as well. And that is one Trump lawyers who know that on the island of Manhattan, it's a fairly severe 80 20 or even 90 ten split between the anti Trump deep blue liberal state feelings and Trump supporters. And they've got a limited number of peremptory challenges. So I think they realize they're going to have to settle some people who are not Trump fans, but strike them as reasonably reliable that they can follow the evidence. So that I think is their game right now. I thought this was odd. The prosecutors told prospective jurors that the government star witness may be reluctant to answer questions. So they're taken on the weisselberg factor right away? Yes. And avoid dear process, there's first of all, just the answering of the questions on the jury questionnaire, so you find out what the potential jurors, political views might be, or just other things like basic facts about married single native New York or blah, blah, blah. But then going to the next level, this is interesting at state court. You have a representative of the DA's office, speak for about 30 minutes, and it's kind of like a Osaka game show. He now knows a lot about the 18 jurists were sitting in the box and he can call him my name and say like you mentioned something yesterday, sir about you ran a business. Can you tell me more about that? And do you think it's fair for a business like you can actually engage with that as part of his presentation also is to prepare the jury the potential hold jury for what the case will be, which is not like a sexy thing with lots of videos, but it's going to be very dry, accounting driven lots of spreadsheets and receipts and things like that and tax forms are going to be up on the board. So to that end, also wanted to prepare the potential jury for the fact that, yes, we have someone who pled guilty to these crimes and he might not be as forthright with you as he should because, you know, internal pressure for a guy who's worked for the organization for his career, you know, Michael, I have difficulty having marinated in that culture for decades, have difficulty stepping out of it and giving you a full answer. And he says, you can credit that. Use your common sense. As to whether or not you believe someone's telling the truth, or if there have been pressured or if they're just trying to avoid answering something. What is weisselberg's position? He's not cooperating with the prosecution, but he's testifying for them in their case against the Trump organization. I mean, good question. He is not necessarily cooperating with the DA's investigation of Donald Trump, the person. However, once a last minute attempt to get this case thrown out in early August failed, and it was going to go to trial. He did the math and made a very rational decision. And he and his lawyers reached a deal with the DA's office if I plead guilty to the charges you've been filed. Can you cap my jail time at 5 months and the prosecutors agreed to it? And as part of that, agreement, he has to testify truthfully at trial. So there's a bit of risk here for the DA's office, however, if weisselberg abides by that and testifies truthfully and he's asked about whether or not any of these perks went to Trump family members, a, I think they'll be able to prove that because they have to documentation, but B, who knew about it, and did the recipients know that this is something that probably would cause problems on taxes. That is probably going to be the most interesting part of the trial. His testimony and that fine line that he's trying to straddle between not cooperating against Donald Trump because he's not been cast out of Trump land yet. And because he's on leave of absence, I think Trump is paying his legal bills. So it's a very delicate dance. It's not a simple plea deal with cooperation. For those who are not aware of his Trump family connections, tell us a little bit about weisselberg. Well, he goes back to Trump's father, Fred Trump. Fred Trump is the founder of the Trump real estate dynasty or success story. Starting in 1973, he was working for Fred Trump's organization in accounting and eventually through the 80s moved up in his Donald Trump game to take over the business in the 1990s, became Trump's guy, comptroller, and eventually CFO of the Trump organization and a number of its subsidiaries. So he's been as the CFO of the Trump organization for at least 20, 25 years. If you remember the TV show the apprentice, he would show up sometimes. In the series demeanor is the Trump with the family out to present the serious business that
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Allen weisselberg. And you think George is tough when you see Alex Alan weisselberg played a bit role on the apprentice, but he'll be the star of the criminal trial of the Trump organization, albeit a reluctant one. Weisselberg was the company's CFO, the money man for decades. And now he'll testify for the prosecution against the company he still employed by. As prosecutors try to prove that Trump organization routinely lowballed its tax exposure by paying senior executives with perks like company cars, unreported cash, and rent free apartments. Joining me is Greg Farrell, Bloomberg, senior legal reporter. Trump has not been charged personally in the case, but it seems like his presence is looming over the jury selection, where all the jurors ask questions about their feelings about Trump? Yes, June, absolutely. In fact, the questionnaire that all the potential jurors had to fill out had a number of questions that tried to elicit their feelings about Trump as a person as a politician. Then there's another set of questions that's interesting about whether or not you feel that corporations have an obligation to pay their fair share of taxes. So you can usually reverse engineer these questionnaires into what interests each set of lawyers had, and obviously the lawyers for the Trump corporation wanted to see how deep the bias is. And I saw a clear example of it. All the jurors say to the question, can you render a fair and impartial verdict based on the evidence? And they all say yes to varying degrees of certainty, but one guy it was clear that he was not a Trump fan, one of the lawyers for the Trump organization, asked him, why do you think you can be fair then? And he said, listen, the guy's no morals. He's a criminal. He's a fraud, but he's caused so much damage in such a large scale that something like this kind of a small potatoes. I could be fair in that. So obviously he did not make the cut. He was struck from the panel. But some jurors who are not fans of Trump were put on the jury, so they're not looking for a juror who has no feelings about Trump. Because I don't think they could find that. No, I don't think there's like fine 5 people in the United States of America above the age of 18 or have no opinion of Trump that would be impossible. But there's a certain amount of strategy that goes on with selecting the jury as well. And that is one Trump lawyers know that on the island of Manhattan, it's a fairly severe 80 20 or even 90 ten split between the anti Trump deep blue liberal state feelings and Trump supporters, and they've got a limited number of peremptory challenges. So I think they realize they're going to have to settle some people who are not Trump fans, but strike them as reasonably reliable that they can follow the evidence. So that I think is their game right now. I thought this was odd. The prosecutors told prospective jurors that the government star witness may be reluctant to answer questions. So they're taken on the weisselberg factor right away? Yes. And the voir dire process, there's first of all, just the answering of the questions on the jury questionnaire, so you find out what the potential jurors, political views might be, or just other things, like basic facts about married single native New York or blah blah blah. But then going to the next level, this is interesting at state court. You have a representative of the DA's office, speak for about 30 minutes, and it's kind of like a game show. He now knows a lot about the 18 jurors were sitting in the box and he can call them by name and say like you mentioned something yesterday, sir about you ran a business. Can you tell me more about that? And do you think it's fair for a business like you can actually engage with that as part of your presentation also is to prepare the jury the potential whole jury for what the case will be, which is not like a sexy thing with lots of videos, but it's going to be very dry, accounting driven lots of spreadsheets and receipts and things like that and tax forms are going to be up on the board. So to that end, also wanted to prepare the potential jury for the fact that, yes, we have someone who pled guilty to these crimes and he might not be as forthright with you as he should because internal pressure, a guy who's worked for the organization for his career, you know, Michael, I have difficulty having marinated in that culture for decades, have difficulty stepping out of it and giving you a full answer, and he says, you can credit that. Use your common sense. As to whether or not you believe someone's telling the truth, or if there have been pressured or if they're just trying to avoid answering something. What is weisselberg's position? He's not cooperating with the prosecution, but he's testifying for them in their case against the Trump organization. I mean, good question. He is not necessarily cooperating with the DA's investigation of Donald Trump the person. However, once a last minute attempt to get this case thrown out in early August failed, and it was going to go to trial. He did the math and made a very rational decision. And he and his lawyers reached a deal with the DA's office if I plead guilty to the charges you've been filed. Can you cap my jail time at 5 months and the prosecutors agreed to it? And as part of that, agreement he has to testify truthfully at trial. So there's a bit of risk here for the DA's office, however, if weisselberg abides by that and testifies truthfully and he's asked about whether or not any of these perks went to Trump family members, a, I think they'll be able to prove that because they have to documentation, but B, who knew about it and did the recipients know that this is something that probably would cause problems on taxes. That is probably going to be the most interesting part of the trial. His testimony and that fine line that he's trying to straddle between not cooperating against Donald Trump, because he's not been cast out of Trump land yet. And because he's on leave of absence, I think Trump is paying his legal bills. So it's a very delicate dance. It's not a simple plea deal with cooperation. For those who are not aware of his Trump family connection, tell us a little bit about weisselberg. Well, he goes back to Trump's father, Fred Trump. Fred Trump is the founder of the Trump real estate dynasty or success story. Starting in 1973, he was working for Fred Trump's organization in accounting and eventually through the 80s moved up in his Donald Trump game to take over the business in the 1990s, became Trump's guy, comptroller, and eventually CFO of the Trump organization and a number of its subsidiaries. So he's been this the CFO of the Trump organization for at least 25 years. If you remember the TV show, the apprentice would show up sometimes. In the series demeanor is the Trump with the family out to present the series business that America was introduced to through that show. So he's been basically his entire career. His adult life and his wealth and he's become wealthy because he's been paid well, comes through the Trump organization and Donald Trump. So that's another factor. So is this trial just going to be about the perks that were not reported? The perks, the cars, the apartment, the hiding
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Officer. Allen weisselberg. And you think George is tough when you see Alex. Allen weisselberg played a bit role on the apprentice. But he'll be the star of the criminal trial of the Trump organization, albeit a reluctant one. Weisselberg was the company's CFO, the money man for decades. And now he'll testify for the prosecution against the company he's still employed by. As prosecutors try to prove that Trump organization routinely lowballed its tax exposure by paying senior executives with perks like company cars, unreported cash, and rent free apartments. Joining me is Greg Farrell, Bloomberg senior legal reporter. Trump has not been charged personally in the case, but it seems like his presence is looming over the jury selection, where all the jurors ask questions about their feelings about Trump? Yes, June, absolutely. In fact, the questionnaire that all the potential jurors had to fill out had a number of questions that tried to elicit their feelings about Trump as a person as a politician. Then there's another set of questions that's interesting about whether or not you feel that corporations have an obligation to pay their fair share of taxes. So you can usually reverse engineer these questionnaires into what interests each set of lawyers had, and obviously the lawyers for the Trump corporation wanted to see how deep the bias is. And I saw a clear example of it. All the jurors say to the question, can you render a fair and impartial verdict based on the evidence? And they all say yes to varying degrees of certainty, but one guy it was clear that he was not a Trump fan, one of the lawyers for the Trump organization asked him, well, why do you think you can be fair then? And he said, listen, the guy's no morals. He's a criminal. He's a fraud, but he's caused so much damage in such a large scale that something like this kind of a small potatoes. Okay, he's like, I could be fair in that. So obviously he did not make the cut. He was struck from the panel. But some jurors who are not fans of Trump were put on the jury, so they're not looking for a juror who has no feelings about Trump. Because I don't think they could find that. No, I don't think there's like fine 5 people in the United States of America above the age of 18 who have no opinion of Trump that would be impossible. But there's a certain amount of strategy that goes on with selecting the jury as well. And that is one Trump lawyer said no, that on the island of Manhattan, it's a fairly severe 80 20 or even 90 ten split between the anti Trump deep blue liberal state feelings and Trump supporters. And they've got a limited number of peremptory challenges. So I think they realized they're going to have to settle some people who are not Trump fans, but strike them as reasonably reliable that they can follow the evidence. So that I think is their game right now. I thought this was odd. The prosecutors told prospective jurors that the government star witness may be reluctant to answer questions. So they're taking on the weisselberg factor right away? Yes. And avoid dear process, there's first of all, just the answering of the questions on the jury questionnaire, so you find out what the potential jurors, political views might be, or just other things, like basic facts about married single native New York or blah blah blah. But then going to the next level, this is interesting at state court. You have a representative of the DA's office, speak for about 30 minutes, and it's kind of like a game show. He now knows a lot about the 18 jurors who are sitting in the box and he can call them by name and say like you mentioned something yesterday, sir about you ran a business. Can you tell me more about that? And do you think it's fair for a business like you could actually engage with that as part of his presentation also is to prepare the jury the potential hold jury for what the case will be, which is not like a sexy thing with lots of videos, but it's going to be very dry, accounting driven lots of spreadsheets and receipts and things like that and tax forms are going to be up on the board. So to that end, he also wanted to prepare the potential jury for the fact that, yes, we have someone who pled guilty to these crimes and he might not be as forthright with you as he should because internal pressure for guys worked for the organization for his career, you know, Michael, I have difficulty having marinated in that culture for decades, have difficulty stepping out of it and giving you a full answer, and he says, you can credit that. Use your common sense. As to whether or not you believe someone's telling the truth, or if there have been pressured or if they're just trying to avoid answering something. What is weisselberg's position? He's not cooperating with the prosecution, but he's testifying for them. In their case against the Trump organization. I mean, good question. He is not necessarily cooperating with the DA's investigation of Donald Trump the person. However, once a last minute attempt to get this case thrown out in early August failed, and it was going to go to trial. He did the math and made a very rational decision. And he and his lawyers reached a deal with the DA's office if I plead guilty to the charges you've been filed. Can you cap my jail time at 5 months and the prosecutors agreed to it? And as part of that, agreement, he has to testify truthfully at trial. So there's a bit of risk here for the DA's office, however, if weisselberg abides by that and testifies truthfully and he's asked about whether or not any of these perks went to Trump family members, a, I think they'll be able to prove that because they have to documentation, but B, who knew about it and did the recipients know that this is something that probably would cause problems on taxes. That is probably going to be the most interesting part of the trial. His testimony and that fine line that he's trying to straddle between not cooperating against Donald Trump because he's not been cast out of Trump land yet. And because he's on leave of absence, I think Trump is paying his legal bills. So it's a very delicate dance. It's not a simple plea deal with cooperation. For those who are not aware of his Trump family connections, tell us a little bit about weisselberg. Well, he goes back to Trump's father, Fred Trump. Fred Trump is the founder of the Trump real estate dynasty or success story. Starting in 1973, he was working for Fred Trump's organization in accounting and eventually through the 80s moved up in his Donald Trump game to take over the business in the 1990s. He became Trump's guy comptroller and eventually CFO of the Trump organization and a number of its subsidiaries.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is Bloomberg law with June gros from Bloomberg radio. I've been talking to Bloomberg legal reporter Greg Farrell about the Trump organization's criminal tax fraud trial, which began on Monday in Manhattan with jury selection. Prosecutors claim that Trump organization routinely lowballed its tax exposure by paying senior executives with perks like company cars and rent free apartments. The company's former chief financial officer, Alan weisselberg, will be the reluctant star witness for the prosecution. What is weisselberg's position? He's not cooperating with the prosecutors, but he's testifying in this trial. I mean, good question. Because that has caused a lot of confusion. He is not necessarily cooperating with the DA's investigation of Donald Trump the person. However, once a last minute attempt to get this case thrown out in early August failed, and it was going to go to trial. He did the math and made a very rational decision. And he and his lawyers reached a deal with the DA's office if I plead guilty to the charges you've been filed. Can you cap my prison time jail time at 5 months and the prosecutors agreed to it? And as part of that agreement, he has to testify truthfully at trial. So there's a bit of risk here for the government for the DA's office. However, if weisselberg abides by that and testifies truthfully and he's asked about whether or not any of these perks went to Trump family members, a, I think they'll be able to prove that because they have the documentation, but B, who knew about it and did the recipients know that this is something that probably would cause problems on taxes. That is probably going to be the most interesting part of the trial. His testimony and that fine line that he's trying to straddle between not cooperating against Donald Trump because he's not been cast out of Trump land yet. He is on a leave of absence from the Trump organization where he was CFO, but he's not been fired or anything like that. And because he's leaving absence, I think Trump is paying his legal bills. So it's a very delicate dance. It's not a simple plea deal with cooperation. He's supposed to be the star witness for the prosecution. Normally they'll prep witnesses extensively for their testimony is he being prepped for his testimony by the prosecution or not. I don't know that he's being prepped as extensively. Let's say I cover the enron trial, 20 plus years ago, as you know. And the amount of prep that former CFO Andrew fastow went with through just over and over again, it was just like limitless. I guess deal or agreement between weisselberg and the DA's office was only struck in mid to late August. So he's only had two months of times. I don't think he's been through it. I think they have been prepping him at least going through his work and ask you give us your answers, et cetera, but not that kind of like a star witness that the FBI is persuaded to cooperate on a big corporate fraud case. It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. That has not been the same here to the best of my knowledge. For those who are not aware of his Trump family connections, tell us a little bit about weisselberg. Well, he goes back to Trump's father, Fred Trump. Fred Trump is the founder of the Trump real estate dynasty or success story. Starting in 1973, he was working for Fred Trump's organization in bookkeeping accounting and eventually through the 80s moved up in his Donald Trump game to take over the business in the 1990s, became Trump's guy. I'm not sure if his title was chief accounting officer, but comptroller and eventually CFO of the Trump organization and a number of its subsidiaries. So he's been the CFO of the Trump organization for at least 20, 25 years. If you remember the TV show the apprentice, he would show up sometimes as he would in the series demeanor is the Trump with the family I would like to present the series business that America was introduced to through that show. So he's been basically his entire career. His adult life and his wealth. And he's become wealthy because he's been paid well, comes through Trump and Trump organization and Donald Trump. So that's another factor. About a year ago, I worked on a story about what were the odds of their weisselberg would flip and cooperate. His choice was facing X number of years in prison. But on the other side, it would be like, not only turning on his boss, who had treated him well and paid him well over so many years, but also it would be repudiating his entire life and career. That would have been very difficult to psychologically. Like his entire career, not just he had this job for two years and decided that the hell with it, I'm going to rat him out. But no, since 1973, we're coming up on a 50 years that he's been employed by the family. It's not something you can just look in the mirror and say, well, I guess I was a fraud. No one could do that. Yeah, so is this trial just going to be about the perks that were not reported to the IRS or New York State authorities? Is that all it's about? The perks, the cars, the apartment, the hiding of compensation as bonuses and some stuff like that. And also the tax implications. So part of this case is a tax case. It's surprisingly small dollar. It's done sort of like in pennies and dimes and quarters so that in the case of weisselberg he had to pay back taxes and stuff. $1.76 million
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Now the latest news from New York City and around the world, here's Michael Barr. Tom John caley, U.S. customs and border protection agents say that they are highlighting the dangers of illegal immigration. Agents say a truck carrying a 150 people will stop by Mexican authorities before it entered Texas and added they have apprehended a record number of migrants this year. Since April, Texas has sent nearly 8000 migrants to Washington D.C. and New York City a move those cities mayors have called inhumane. Texas emergency management chief nim Kidd insists otherwise. Some have claimed or tried to accuse that we are putting people on these buses and we are holding them hostage and making them go to a final destination. That is exactly not true. Texas emergency management chief nim kit. The federal judge who signed a search warrant for former president Trump's moral law go home has ordered the Justice Department to propose a redacted document for public release. This comes as Trump organization CFO Allen weisselberg pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges and agreed to serve 5 months in prison and testify against the Trump organization. The trial involving the Trump organization is set for October. He has not compelled to testify against his former employer or members of the Trump family, but former federal prosecutor can nowadays says weisselberg's testimony will be hard to defend against. This is a huge, huge, huge win for the Manhattan DA's office, because right now they have a cooperating witness Alan weisselberg, who's going to show them the keys to the kingdom here against the remaining co defendants, the Trump organization and another Trump related company. Former federal prosecutor can nowadays spoke to ABC. The United Nations is urging Russia to stand down and not proceed with its mission to carry out military action at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Secretary general Antonio Guterres repeatedly urged for the plant to be demilitarized and suggested any action there would be in his words suicide. President Joe Biden will host a White House summit next month aimed at combating hate fueled violence in the U.S.. The White House announced today that Biden will host the united we stand summit on September 15th. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is
Bloomberg Radio New York
"weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To Amy Mars for world national news. Oh, I think you, Paul, First Lady Jill Biden testing positive for the coronavirus after developing cold like symptoms late yesterday. She's now isolating at a private residence in South Carolina where she was on vacation with President Biden. Now Biden you recall just recovered from his own infection a week ago, The White House says the president tested negative for the virus this morning. Wyoming representative Liz Cheney is fighting to hold on to her seat in today's GOP primary. Cheney is vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6th capitol riot and a vocal opponent of former president Trump, and that has voters split over her candidacy. She's the person I want in that seat. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like a no brainer for me. It was a time that I told her that I would vote for her for president. I rescind that with a vengeance. Cheney's opponent Trump backed Harriet hagerman leads Cheney by double digits in the polls. The longtime chief financial officer for the Trump organization is now in complete talks with state prosecutors to avoid an October trial. Allen weisselberg and the Trump organization were charged last year accused of conspiring to avoid income taxes by giving some employees unreported perks, including $1.7 million in benefits for weisselberg. Sources say weisselberg's legal team is talking with prosecutors to find resolution before the trial, they did meet yesterday, and they are scheduled to meet again on Thursday, if weisselberg's plea goes forward, it would still leave the Trump organization facing the tax fraud case alone. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Allen Weisselberg Removed as Officer of Trump Organization Subsidiaries
"As an officer at some of the company's subsidiaries Less. Goldberg's removal comes after prosecutors recently accused him and the Trump Organization of a 15 year tax fraud scheme. Wall Street Journal reports. Weisberg was terminated last week as director at Trump International Golf Club. Scotland. President Biden will travel to Philadelphia today to warn Americans that the constitutional right to vote
The Stuttering John Podcast
"weisselberg" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Trump off. Allen weisselberg is in trouble for collecting nonemployee compensation. While company Chief Financial Officer similar similar to fax reported an arrangement involving Ivanka Trump. Now let me explain this to the article Stray From The Huffington Post. One of the charges filed this week against the Trump organization and its Chief Financial Officer involves a type of pay strategy. Reportedly also linked to Ivanka Trump among the 15. Felony charges. Detailed in the indictment against the Trump organization and Allen, weisselberg involves a scheme to pay weisselberg as both an employee of the company. And then it's a non-employee contract sound familiar Ivanka and Jared did that the whole time Trump was president or consulted into other businesses in the Trump organization. Allegedly as a way for both the company and weisselberg to dodge taxes, this is where it gets great, folks. The process involved, Trump organization tax write-offs on millions millions of dollars in Consulting fees. Some of which appear to have gone to Donald Trump's girlfriend Ivanka. Trump Sources told the times. Although there was no indication that the time at the former president's daughter was a target of the investigation, the newspaper noted. So what is going on here is J. Trump will organization is money and then putting it in places that they could hide it and don't pay taxes. And by the way, see this. And I'm so sick of people cuz just right here, G Canada, smoke and mirrors. They will never go after the door Todd. So they do this to make it look good money. First of all, Jim Canada, I'm pretty sure people have called you out for being a troll and I think you are. But that being said, I am so sick of people like G Canada, who sit there and say, oh, come on Trump's never. Going to go down. He's always Dodge getting arrested. He has dodged it now know, you know, he's never going to go down, guess what? That's what they said. About John Gotti. You remember that Teflon? Don he died in prison. That's what they said.
Our Body Politic
"weisselberg" Discussed on Our Body Politic
"I want to go to another big news item this week. And that is the trump organization and it. Cfo alan weisselberg. I being charged in tax related investigation. Tiffany what can you say about these charges. And and what can happen to the trump organization as a result so it's important to remember legally corporations of function as people and so. It's important also not to conflate the trump organization with donald trump himself so we're looking at charges against the corporation the trump organization that holds his name. And it's cfo weisselberg and what this means is that for the corporation. there could be fines. There could be mandated oversight in its financial practices. It could mean incarceration time for if the f. o. is convicted but it doesn't at this point have any criminal implications for donald trump himself but it seems that the prosecutor would likely be working to get inside information from weisselberg. Potentially some type of agreement some type of plea deal based on what evidence they have. I think donald trump is the big fish. They'd like to secure a conviction against but at this stage again important to remember that it's just the trump organization and it. Cfo who have been criminally charged with these tax related crimes. Yeah that's a really good point. So variety i mean what does this mean for former president trump or his political image his influence there are people. You know who still believed that former president trump is the president that he's just in absentia away people to put him back in the white house. You know in a culture war sometimes. Any action can be leveraged for power especially if you are not bound by facts if you are bound by quote. Alternative facts the hit that keeps on giving kellyanne conway so i do worry a little bit not that it changes anything that the investigation into the trump organization will end up bolstering some of his supporters. I agree farai and what's interesting about donald trump being back on the campaign trail that rally. He had in wellington ohio. I watched portions of it and it was difficult to watch. I have to be honest. There's no platform. There's nothing but grievances fear and anger lots of rage emanating from donald trump and his supporters. Are eating it up. It's it's a scary sight. His supporters will follow him to the ends of the earth and we saw that at his first rally back on the campaign trail recently. Yeah tiffany. I want to jump in here because let's listen to a little bit to former president trump at that rally in wellington. Right outside of cleveland ohio. And we're going to elect an amazing slate of proud. American first republicans next year america first so forever i mean. How much impact do you think that. Trump's revenge plan is going to have on the midterms. Yeah that's a phrase from politico. The idea of a revenge plan. I mean you know you do start seeing again looking at Some of the the far right media outlets you are starting to see some people who are trump est saying that trump is no longer the standard bearer for his own ideology. So it's like it's not that these supporters are becoming more centrist. But they're saying you know what someone else needs to step into his place. And i actually think that there will be. There already are a wide range of elected officials in the federal government in in the legislature. Who have very trump ideologies. Not all of them you know the marjorie retailer greens. Some that are much more ready for prime time in a traditional sense..
AP 24 Hour News
Trump Organization, CFO Allen Weisselberg Charged With Tax Crimes
Mark Levin
Manhattan DA Targets Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg for Things Celebrities Do Regularly
"Prosecutors in Manhattan Da's office have been examining bonuses, luxury perks. Mr Wiesel Berg received including an apartment in Manhattan. Leased Mercedes Benz cars and private school tuition for at least one of his Children. So He's gotten some perks. And he's really earned them. That is an apartment in Manhattan. These leased Mercedes Benz and one of his grandchildren going The private school. Now, ladies and gentlemen. You don't typically criminally indicted individual for this. Let alone The corporation itself that has absolutely nothing to do with Think about the people on television. Think about people who write for The Washington Post and The New York Times. Think about people in Hollywood entertainers and so forth. Think about sports figures in sports broadcasters and even other broadcasters. How many times do they pay taxes? On the use of a car. Car service. How many times did they pay taxes on that? Or any other luxury perks that they receive. So typically, it's a civil matter. That involves penalties and interest in a slap on the wrist, and don't do it again. And after five years Of criminal investigation and millions of pages of documents. This is what this political hack district attorney in Manhattan does.
Morning News with Hal Jay & Brian Estridge
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Turns Himself In
"The Trump Organization, CFO Alan Weiss Tilburg has turned himself into the Manhattan D A s office to face criminal charges said to involve French benefits given to employees. Prosecutors are expected to until the indictment against him and the Trump Organization today. The Trump Organization issued a statement this morning saying, in part, this is not justice. This is
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
Attorney General Merrick Garland Announces Lawsuit Over Georgia Voting Law
"And now. It's the united states of america versus the state of georgia today. The justice department filed a lawsuit against georgia for violating the civil rights of black voters with its new election law assistant attorney general for civil rights. Kristen clark said this our complaint today. Alleges that several provisions of sp two. Oh two were past. With a discriminatory purpose. In violation of the voting rights act. These legislative actions occurred at a time when the black population in georgia continues to steadily increase and after his historic election. That saw record voter turnout across the state particularly for absentee voting. Which black voters are now. More likely to use than white voters are complaint challenges several provisions of sp two to on the grounds that they were adopted with the intent to deny or abridge black citizens equal access to the political process. A general merrick garland said the justice department is evaluating other restrictive. Laws recently passed in states with republican legislatures. But he also asked for help from congress. We are using every method at all in our enforcement efforts but that is not enough. We urge congress to act to provide the department with important authorities. It needs to protect. The voting rights of every american
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
George Floyd's Daughter, Brothers Speak at Derek Chauvin Sentencing
"Today the final session of the trial of derek chauvin for their murder of george floyd was legalistic in some ways and very emotional in other ways the sentencing hearing began with statements from george floyd brothers and his daughter about what his loss means to them. What kind of games do you wanna play with them. Play and have play rag up Law see yeah. Would you in the miss every single night before we would survey my dad always help me brush my taste. Do you miss him. Help in brush. Your teeth would never be able to get back daughters. I love he will never be able to walk. Jonah down i'll hell wedding attend those magical moments of live like a daddy daughter. Dance sweet sixteen party seeing her out for prom graduations and she would never be able to have any personal memories with her fault. Turns floyd had one question for derek. Chauvin why. I wanted to know from the man himself. Why what were you thinking. What was going through your head when you had your brother's neck when you when you knew that he posed no threat anymore. He was handcuffed. Why these get up by you stay there.
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
Manhattan DA Convenes Grand Jury in Trump Investigation
"Washington post first to report that the manhattan district attorney as convened a grand jury. That is quote expected to decide whether to indict trump executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges the report continues to say the move indicates that manhattan district attorney cyrus vance investigation of the former president and his business has reached an advanced stage after more than two years. It suggests to advance believes he has found evidence of a crime if not by trump then by someone potentially close to him or by his company district attorney. Vance has been looking at trump's business practices before he was president. Vance fought all the way to the supreme court to get the former president's tax returns days ends. New york's attorney general letitia. James is also conducting a civil investigation into trump. she recently joined forces with vance's office and the criminal inquiry. These investigations are believed to be largely stemming from cases involving trump's former lawyer and fixer. Michael cohen will eventually of course famously turned on his boss after pleading guilty to making hush money payoffs for trump and lying to congress his latest. This latest investigation appears to hinge on longtime trump organization. Cfo alan weisselberg. Who has been under pressure from the manhattan. Da one of the post reporters who broke tonight story described wisel berg's importance to this case. He's almost the human equivalent of trump's taxes. He's the guy through which almost all of trump's financial transactions big and small have passed through for thirty years so he would be a valuable asset if you thought there was a financial crime to no one surprise. Trump tonight responded to the washington post story with a lengthy statement calling the da's investigation. And we quote here a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in american history purely political and an affront to the almost seventy five million voters who supported me in the presidential
The Daily Beans
Glenn Kirschner's Top Line Thoughts on the Criminal Probe of Trump Organization
"To be joined today by my friend. Former federal prosecutor for many decades but not five decades like andrew. Giuliani claims that he's been in politics even though he's only thirty five years old and also hosted the justice matters podcasts. Justice matters youtube channel because welcome glen kirschner. Glenn welcome are you doing. I'm doing well thank you. It's been an interesting day so far in the news. I know biden just signed the anti asian hate act and hate crimes act and i think that that's a great speech that you made and we've got a lot going on and boy the investigative pressure. The legal troubles are mounting for the former guy as we learned just last night that not only is the new york attorney general tips james teaming up with Vance on the trump organization investigation making her civil suit also criminal investigation but that she has had a criminal investigation open against weisselberg. Cfo the trump organization and sent a letter letting them all know back in january. She's been doing this for months now. And i find that fascinating. And i was hoping to get your top line thoughts so top line thoughts are okay. What do we know based on this announcement by attorney general james and what can we reasonably infer. Well what we know. Is that if you're the target of an investigation and it goes from being a civil investigation to being a criminal investigation. We know that's bad for you. That's bad for donald trump. that's bad for the trump organization because civil investigations are all about money. All somebody can do to the target of a civil investigation is you know levy fines and penalties and make them pay restitution and then maybe at the most extreme they can prohibit you from running a business in the future kind of like when james shut down the trump charity and when she went after and is still going after the nra. But you know what civil doesn't land anybody in prison. Criminal can land people imprisoned. So we know that's bad for donald trump. We also know that too. Prosecutorial heads are better than one right. So tisch james has a full staff of lawyers with experience and expertise in certain areas and advance. The district attorney for manhattan has a whole battalion of lawyers with experience and expertise in certain areas. The fact that these two offices are jordan joining forces. I think spells real trouble for trump and
This Morning with Gordon Deal
President Trump, House Judiciary Committee And Donald Trump discussed on This Morning with Gordon Deal
"Declaring it's very clear, President Trump obstructed Justice. The chairman of the House Judiciary committee says the panel request documents today from more than sixty people from Trump's administration family and business as part of a rapidly expanding Russia investigation near congressman Jerry Nadler told ABC the committee wants to review documents from the Justice department, Donald Trump junior and Trump organization chief financial officer, Allan Weisselberg where we learned from the Cohen testimony was he directly implicated the president in in various crimes both while seeking the officer present and while. In the White House. Former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former White House counsel, Don Mcgann are also likely targets
Forum
‘Crippling’ Attacks Force Doctors Without Borders to Close Ebola Centers in Congo
"That President Trump ordered that his aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner be given a top secret security clearance against the advice of career intelligence officials who are concerned about his finances and contact with foreigners during the election. The president has denied any involvement. The chairman of the house oversight committee Elijah Cummings says he's asking White House officials to provide documents and submit to interviews on the matter. President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen wrapped up his third straight day of testimony before congress this time behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee NPR's Tim Mack reports. Congress isn't finished with him yet as Cohen less the private room where he had been grilled for more than seven hours. He told reporters he would be back for more. It was very productive is I said I'm committed to telling the truth, and I will back on March six to finish up. There's more to discuss chairman, Adam Schiff exiting the closed door session praised Cohen's willingness to cooperate shift. Also said that the committee has scheduled an interview with former Trump organization business associate Felix Seder the week after Cohen separately. He congressional aide confirmed that the committee anticipates bring in Allen Weisselberg attr-. Trump financial executive Tim Mack NPR news, Washington. The house has approved a second Bill in as many days that would expand the federal background check system for purchasing firearms. NPR's? Brockton Booker reports South Carolina democrat Jim Clyburn believes the 2015 fifteen Charleston shooting could have been prevented if federal authorities had more than three business days to investigate before the shooter got a gun leading up to the vote Clyburn said his Bill will give federal investigators up to twenty days to do a background check. We'll save lives, and we would be better off for Georgia Republican Doug Collins, disagrees saying it does nothing to make communities safer, but it will make it harder for citizens to exercise their second amendment rights and defend themselves and their families. The measure was approved by the democratic controlled house at faces strong opposition in the Senate where Republicans are in control. Braxton Booker NPR news, Washington, Oregon has enacted the nation's first man. Tori. Statewide, rent control law governor Kate Brown says it will provide immediate relief to people struggling to keep up with rising rents and a tight rental market everyone here in snows that this is a ground breaking piece of legislation as we are the first state in the nation to enact this level of protection for our renters. The Bill is a critical tool for stabilising the rental market throughout the state of Oregon, the new law limits rental increases to once a year and can be no more than seven percent. Plus any change in the consumer price index that measures inflation. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Rescue efforts continue on the Indonesian island of sullaway wherein gold mine collapsed. Tuesday officials say there are dozens of miners still trapped in the rubble. Eight people are confirmed dead the aid group Doctors Without Borders is suspending operations in the epicenter of the eight continuing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This comes after unknown assailants set fire to do a bullet treatment centers run by the group in separate attacks. Earlier this week NPR's Narita Eisenman reports since this outbreak was declared last August health responders have faced violent resistance from a lot of communities that distrust outsiders after years of armed conflict in the area, but the attacks on the two Ebola treatment centers run by Doctors Without Borders is on another level at the first center in the town of Kotla the brother of a patient died while trying to flee Congolese authorities say at the second in the city of Bhutan. Bo four patients who fled have yet to be low. Located and a police officer was killed for now. The several dozen patients at these two centers have been taken to a transfer facility. Run by another eight group called ulema Doctors Without Borders says it can't resume activity until it can address the
24 Hour News
Trump Organization finance chief Weisselberg granted immunity in Cohen probe
"Trump's longtime business financial chief is the latest insider to. Be granted immunity from prosecution are Warren Levinson report. Allen Weisselberg has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors Why Schlossberg is a bookkeeper whose ties to the Trump organization, go back to the nineteen seventies the prosecutors are investigating hush money former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Arranged to pay. Two women who claimed sexual encounters with Trump
Vacation with The Griswolds
Ex-New Hampshire prep school staffers accused of abuse
"Five one four one that's eight hundred two one five fifty one forty one Another associate of the president has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors as part of their investigation into his former personal attorney Michael Cohen USA's Wendy king has more. On that story one of the top financial officials in President Trump's company is. Now expected to cooperate with investigators in the Russia. Probe Ellen Weisselberg is the chief
24 Hour News
Top Trump confidant Weisselberg granted immunity, called to testify
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24 Hour News
Former CDC director arrested on sex abuse charge
"He was seventy six years. Old a longtime confident of President Trump and his family. Has been granted immunity in the investigation of the president's former lawyer and hush money, payments, Trump organization. CFO Allen Weisselberg is said to be cooperating with authorities the White House has. Put the brakes on a planned diplomatic trip to North Korea Our, saga megani has details the president has. Told secretary of state Mike. Pompeo to delay planned trip next week to be on, young saying there has. Not been enough progress toward denuclearization
WBZ Afternoon News
Top Trump Organization official Weisselberg was granted immunity in Cohen investigation
"Today we learned. President Trump's money man for from within four decades was granted immunity for providing information about Michael Cohen Mr.. Trump's former lawyer and fixer he joins a growing list. Of the president's inner circle who have cooperated or are cooperating with, federal prosecutors ouija Jiang is traveling tonight with the president's in, Ohio Today President Trump ignored questions about his. Longtime money man. Alan Weisselberg who spoke to federal prosecutors in exchange for unity in the case that led to a plea deal for the president's former fixer Michael Cohen Cohen said before
Sean Hannity
Manhattan DA considers criminal charges against Trump Organization
"Longtime Trump organization's chief financial officer was granted immunity by federal. Prosecutors as part of an investigation into President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen Alan. Wiesel, Berg was given immunity by the Manhattan US attorney's office. That was first reported by. The Wall Street Journal now our sources are confirming it as you said for providing information about Michael Cohen in. The criminal investigation into hush money payments for two women during the two thousand sixteen presidential campaign now when it was granted, immunity were still. Working out those details this news coming. Out of the journal had also reported President Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper was called to testify before a federal grand jury, in the investigation earlier this year we've reached out for comment for Weisselberg directly so far have not heard back from him Wiesel bergh's immunity deal comes after it was reported that David pecker chief of national inquirer is publishing company American media also, received federal. Immunity as part of the
A Public Affair
Zimbabwe opposition now rejects election ruling
"The constitutional quotas Zimababwe has. Upheld the election victory of president Emmerson Mnangagwa paving the way for his inauguration it dismissed an appeal by the, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa who'd alleged there was widespread rigging in last month's vote chief Justice looked. Malabo who said the, opposition and failed to provide evidence delivered the ruling Amazon Dumbledore non Godoi is declared the winner of the presidential. Elections On the July two thousand eighteen after the ruling president, Mellon Gagua called for unity in the opposition MDC, said it's response would be within