https://www.businessinsider.com/jen...s-allen-weisselberg-will-flip-on-trump-2021-5 Jennifer Weisselberg said Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Organization, will flip on Trump. She is Allen Weisselberg's ex-daughter-in-law, and was married to his son Barry. Jennifer Weisselberg has also been cooperating with prosecutors who are investigating Trump. Jennifer Weisselberg said Allen Weisselberg, her former father-in-law and the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, will flip on Donald Trump. Weisselberg was speaking to CNN Thursday about the New York investigations into the Trump Organization and the former president. Interviewer Erin Burnett asked her directly: "Will Allen Weisselberg flip on Trump?" She responded with a simple "yes," prompting Burnett to note there was "no hesitation" with her answer. Weisselberg was married to Allen Weisselberg's son, Barry Weisselberg, from 2014 to 2018. Trump and his wife attended their wedding and Weisselberg was also present at Trump's inauguration. Since September she has been cooperating with prosecutors who are investigating Trump's finances, and has turned over several boxes of documents and a laptop. Trump is under two investigations in New York. The New York attorney general's office announced Tuesday it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity," as opposed to a civil one. The Manhattan district attorney's office is also conducting a criminal investigation into whether the Trump Organization committed tax and insurance fraud, among other crimes. Both offices are also looking into the taxes and personal finances of Allen Weisselberg with the hopes of gaining leverage that could convince him to cooperate with prosecutors in the Trump investigations, CNN reported Wednesday. Meanwhile, Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer, said that he believes Trump will be the one to turn on everyone else involved in the investigations into the Trump Organization, including his own children. Weisselberg also told Burnett that while attending Trump's inauguration in 2017 it felt "dangerous" for him to become president. "The amount of power given to a president — I just think it's irresponsible to give somebody who is self-serving and narcissistic that much power when it's inevitably always to benefit themselves," she said. When asked why she is cooperating with prosecutors now, Weisselberg said it's because "it's so horrifying that Donald Trump could be president again, knowing what I know."
Another slow news day in Canada- aren't they all? Not to worry. Freddy Foreskin presses his "go to Trump" shortcut key.
What Trump has to worry about now https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/opinions/trump-probe-letitia-james-louis/index.html Donald Trump hears the footsteps of law enforcement getting closer, and he's not happy. He has posted a bitter 900-word rant -- one of the longest statements he's issued since leaving office -- aimed at New York Attorney General Letitia James. It offers a revealing look at Trump's growing legal troubles, now that a long-running investigation into the Trump Organization by James's office has ratcheted up and may now include the possibility of criminal charges. "There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime," Trump wrote on his website. "But, make no mistake, that is exactly what is happening here. The Attorney General of New York literally campaigned on prosecuting Donald Trump even before she knew anything about me. She said that if elected, she would use her office to look into 'every aspect' of my real estate dealings." A spokesperson for James told CNN: "We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan D.A." We don't know exactly what James is investigating; it's unusual for a prosecutor to announce the possibility of criminal charges in this fashion. She could be sending a signal to witnesses and potential cooperators that things are about to get serious. Or she could simply be reacting to information that was leaked to the media. But the most important part of the statement -- the thing that likely sent Trump into a rage -- is the confirmation that James and the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, are working together. After a long legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, Vance recently got copies of Trump's tax returns. The returns are expected to confirm -- or refute -- explosive charges alleged by Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, in testimony to Congress. According to Cohen, Trump exaggerated the value of real estate owned by his company in order to secure a loan to buy the Buffalo Bills football team, and then drastically undervalued the same property for tax purposes. An investigation by The New York Times exposed what seemed to the very tactics Cohen described: "On his 2012 balance sheet," the Times wrote, "Mr. Trump described an estate he owns in Westchester County, N.Y., as being worth $291 million. He bought the property, Seven Springs, in 1996 for $7.5 million. In 2018, Mr. Trump said in a federal ethics filing that the property was worth no more than $50 million." Those wildly varying estimates could spell trouble for Trump. The value of real estate can vary with market conditions, but deliberately manipulating estimates -- telling the bank a property is worth $291 million, but then reporting to the government it's only valued at $50 million -- can constitute criminal fraud. In his recent rant, Trump lashed out at Cohen, complaining that "the District Attorney's office has been going after me for years based on a lying, discredited low life, who was not listened to or given credibility by other prosecutorial offices, and sentenced to 3 years in prison for lying and other events unrelated to me." Cohen did, indeed, plead guilty to a range of federal charges that included concealing income and lying to a bank in the process of getting a home equity loan -- actions taken in order "to silence two women who otherwise planned to speak publicly about their alleged affairs with a presidential candidate," according to federal prosecutors. Cohen and other past and present Trump Organization employees -- including the ex-president's sons -- have spoken repeatedly with prosecutors with the state Attorney General and the Manhattan District Attorney's offices. So Trump has every reason to worry, though we don't know if any charges will be filed. And despite the ex-president's insults and protestations, his growing legal jeopardy comes as no surprise. Investigative reporters have examined Trump's finances for decades, generating enough books to fill a small shelf. Aggressively manipulating real estate values has long been part of his business strategy, according to a detailed investigation by the New York Times in 2018. We have every reason to think there are yawning gaps between what he has claimed to different public and private agencies. And all the name-calling in the world won't change that.
There is a weakness in the above story. Does anyone really believe Trump can write 900 words? Exactly. I didn't think so.
5 major investigations into Donald Trump and his businesses, explained https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/poli...vance-letitia-james-investigations/index.html The announcement by New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday night that her office's probe into The Trump Organization has evolved from a purely civil one to add a criminal investigation is a good reminder of the various legal entanglements facing former President Donald Trump as he works to keep control of the Republican Party and mulls a 2024 presidential re-run. Although James' office didn't elaborate on what specifically led her office to make the investigation criminal, CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams offered this take on the move -- and what it has to do with the ongoing investigation into the Trump organization by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance -- in an interview on "New Day" Wednesday: "What it appears to be is that the A.G.'s office, in the course of investigating civil wrongs by the President, found something that just didn't look right and appeared to have some sort of criminal element to it and brought the D.A.'s office in. This allows them to pool resources, share information. And, in effect, helps both offices' investigations out." True to form, Trump issued a lengthy statement bemoaning the investigations against him and suggesting all James cares about is "taking down Trump." While we don't know for sure whether James' office uncovered some new potentially criminal wrongdoing by The Trump Organization in the course of what had been a civil investigation, we do know the various areas that both the AG and DA were looking into. Let's go through them. 1) James is examining how Trump valued his assets. In the wake of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's congressional testimony alleging that Trump, along with his family members, had repeatedly "inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed among the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes," James announced that she would investigate the claims to see if they elevate to the level of fraud. Her office has deposed both Trump's son Eric and longtime Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg. 2) Vance is looking into the financial inner workings of The Trump Organization. This case grew out of questions regarding several hush money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election by Cohen to women alleging they had engaged in extramarital affairs with Trump. (Cohen told Congress, under oath, in 2019 that there was "no doubt" in his mind that Trump knew about the hush money payments.) The investigation is broader than just the hush money, however, as Vance is also examining whether Trump overvalued (and undervalued) various properties to lenders and insurance companies as well as whether the company paid the appropriate amount of taxes. Vance's probe scored a major victory in February when the Supreme Court blocked Trump's attempts to keep eight years of tax records -- from 2011 to 2019 -- out of Vance's hands. Last month, Vance's office brought on a former FBI forensic account who was intimately involved in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. So, that's what we know about the investigations being run by the Manhattan DA and the New York AG. But, those are far from the only legal issues that Trump faces. Here's a look at some of the more prominent other ones: 3) E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit. Days before the 2020 election, a federal judge rejected an attempt by Trump, represented by Department of Justice lawyers, to effectively dismiss a case brought by Carroll alleging that Trump had raped her in the 1990s. He denied her allegation, saying, "She's not my type." The case is now proceeding through the federal court system. 4) Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit. Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice," sued Trump back in 2017, arguing that in his denial of her allegation that he had sexually assaulted her in 2007, he had defamed her and subjected her to harassment. Trump lost a bid to dismiss the case in late 2019, and in March an appeals court in New York rejected Trump's latest appeal -- meaning that the proceeding will now go before a trial court. 5) Mary Trump's lawsuit. The niece of the President -- and the author of the scathing bestseller "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" -- sued Trump in September 2020, alleging that he, his sister and his late brother had committed fraud to keep her from getting her fair share of the estate of Trump's father, Fred Sr. Aside from those myriad legal problems is the question of whether Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice for his attempts to impede and inhibit the Mueller investigation. In a back-and-forth during congressional testimony in July 2019, Mueller suggested that he believed Trump could be charged once he left office. Now, it's not at all clear whether Trump himself faces direct legal peril from any of these investigations. And, if past is prologue, Trump will use every means at his disposal to slow down the legal proceedings and muddy the waters in terms of public perception. And Trump did win one legal victory earlier this year when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case alleging that he violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars a president from reaping profits from a foreign government while in office. With all that said, there's no question that the announcement by James on Tuesday night represents a new and likely more perilous phase of the investigation for Trump. And, even if he manages to escape that probe, there are lots of other legal problem still lurking.
You’re definitely more worried about this than he is. 100%. Must be sad to put all your focus on another man - one that doesn’t even know you exist. LOL!
This one wanted to be secretary of state ……he didn't get that , instead he was made 'personal pimp' , he traveled the world negotiating the madams fees and he didn't get his cut , neither did he get that blanket pre-emptive pardon he so badly wanted. Rudy(i've got insurance)Giuliani is mad , and he knows all about these type of investigations. FBI seized 18 electronic devices in Rudy Giuliani raid Rudy , the choice is yours , sing........or serve sixty years in the slammer.