Law & Crime ‘He Knows Close to Everything’: New York Prosecutors Zero in on Trump Organization’s CFO Jerry Lambe
Prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office tasked with investigating Donald Trump and his private business have turned their attention to the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, a longtime confidant whose relationship with the family business dates back nearly half a century.
According to a Monday report from the New York Times, investigators have been increasingly focused on CFO Allen Weisselberg, likely hoping he can be pressured into cooperating with the ongoing probe into possible tax, insurance, and ban fraud offenses. Two sources said to have knowledge of the investigation told the Times that in recent weeks prosecutors working under Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance “have been interviewing witnesses who know Mr. Weisselberg and have asked at least one witness about Mr. Weisselberg’s sons, Barry and Jack Weisselberg.”
While there’s reportedly “no indication that the sons are a focus of the investigation,” both Barry and Jack are heavily entrenched in Trump’s private businesses, with Barry having been the property manager at the Wollman ice skating rink in New York City that the Trump Organization ran until this year, and Jack working for Ladder Capital, one of the former president’s biggest lenders.
The probe, which began as an inquiry into the hush money payments Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, has broadened “significantly” in recent months. Prosecutors claimed in court documents to have evidence of “possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”
Additional moves have also signaled that the investigation will be highly focused on the Trump Organization’s books. Vance last month added Mark Pomerantz to the team investigating Trump. Pomerantz is a former federal prosecutor who specializes in untangling complex financial dealings and white-collar crimes.
Weisselberg, who first started working as an accountant for Fred Trump in the 1970s and more recently helped Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump run the business during their father’s term in office, could be the key to a prospective criminal case against the former president as he’s overseen the Trump Organization’s finances for more than two decades.
That notion was backed by Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump, who said Weisselberg knows the Trump business empire as well as anybody.
“Weisselberg started working for my grandfather at Trump Management in Brooklyn in 1971 and most likely followed Donald to Manhattan in order to keep an eye on him. He knows close to everything,” she wrote Monday evening in response to the Times report.
Several former federal prosecutors expressed similar thoughts on the significance Weisselberg could play in any prosecution of Donald Trump.
UCLA law professor and former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman said that Weisselberg “knows where all the bodies are buried and is not going to go to jail to save Trump.”
CNN legal analyst and former prosecutor in the Southern District of New York Elie Honig noted that Weisselberg’s past suggests he may be willing to turn on his boss.
“Reminder that Weisselberg was given immunity for his testimony in the SDNY in 2018. That suggests (1) he was willing to testify, and (2) SDNY thought it was worth giving him a pass to get his testimony,” he wrote.
NYU law professor Andrew Weissmann, who previously served as one of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s top lieutenants, said the CFO “is always a key person to flip,” adding, “He can be a fall guy for the CEO or a cooperator, but not both.”
The latest reporting comes a week after the Manhattan DA’s Office finally obtained Donald Trump’s tax returns and “millions of pages” of his financial records.
Originally posted by larrylegend8383
The Democrats in that era were southern conservatives ya retarded piece of shit.
Conservatives jumped to the Republican side with Roosevelt's New Deal policies and Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Johnson after signing those: "I think we just delivered the south to the Republican party for a long time to come."
Get fucked Spectral
Yep lol.
Like yeah, the democrats were in favor of slavery... It was all the racist southern states. The rural areas voting for Republicans today.
President Joseph Biden making America great again!
ABC News Biden says there will be enough vaccine for American adults by end of May
President Joe Biden announced a major partnership Tuesday afternoon between pharmaceutical giants Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson to help produce J&J's newly authorized vaccine and changed the vaccine timeline, saying there would be enough for every American adult by the end of May.
"Two of the largest health care and pharmaceutical companies in the world that are usually competitors are working together on the vaccine. Johnson & Johnson and Merck will work together to expand the production of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine. This is a type of collaboration between companies we saw in World War II," Biden said. "We also invoked the defense production act to put two Merck facilities to the standards necessary to safely manufacture the J&J vaccine. And with the urging and assistance of my administration, Johnson & Johnson is also taking additional new actions to safely accelerate vaccine production. Johnson & Johnson's vaccine manufacturing facilities will now begin to operate 24/7."
He added, "About three weeks ago, we were able to say that we’ll have enough vaccine supply for adults by the end of July, and I'm pleased to announce today, as a consequence of this stepped-up process that I've ordered and just outlined, this country will have enough vaccine supply ... for every adult in America by the end of May."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said earlier Tuesday that the Department of Defense would also provide daily logistical support to strengthen Johnson & Johnson's efforts.
Originally posted by stl1
Now…THIS is how a REAL PRESIDENT acts!
President Joseph Biden making America great again!
ABC News Biden says there will be enough vaccine for American adults by end of May
President Joe Biden announced a major partnership Tuesday afternoon between pharmaceutical giants Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson to help produce J&J's newly authorized vaccine and changed the vaccine timeline, saying there would be enough for every American adult by the end of May.
"Two of the largest health care and pharmaceutical companies in the world that are usually competitors are working together on the vaccine. Johnson & Johnson and Merck will work together to expand the production of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine. This is a type of collaboration between companies we saw in World War II," Biden said. "We also invoked the defense production act to put two Merck facilities to the standards necessary to safely manufacture the J&J vaccine. And with the urging and assistance of my administration, Johnson & Johnson is also taking additional new actions to safely accelerate vaccine production. Johnson & Johnson's vaccine manufacturing facilities will now begin to operate 24/7."
He added, "About three weeks ago, we were able to say that we’ll have enough vaccine supply for adults by the end of July, and I'm pleased to announce today, as a consequence of this stepped-up process that I've ordered and just outlined, this country will have enough vaccine supply … for every adult in America by the end of May."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said earlier Tuesday that the Department of Defense would also provide daily logistical support to strengthen Johnson & Johnson's efforts.
your happy that joe biden put americans under the control of pharmaceutical feudal lords.
I'm happy that MY PRESIDENT believes that saving lives is more important than spending his time bitching about an election that was lost and stirring up an insurrection because of it.
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Democrats not only fought and died to keep the blacks enslaved, they're still doing it today. They're the ones fighting to throw the borders open, just so they can capitalize on the cheap foreign slave labor. These aren't the champions of black people, they're the slave masters of black people. Always have been, always will be.
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Democrats not only fought and died to keep the blacks enslaved, they're still doing it today. They're the ones fighting to throw the borders open, just so they can capitalize on the cheap foreign slave labor. These aren't the champions of black people, they're the slave masters of black people. Always have been, always will be.
Originally posted by stl1
I'm happy that MY PRESIDENT believes that saving lives is more important than spending his time bitching about an election that was lost and stirring up an insurrection because of it.
Originally posted by stl1
I'm happy that MY PRESIDENT believes that saving lives is more important than spending his time bitching about an election that was lost and stirring up an insurrection because of it.
Your understanding of reality is 100% based on how journalists write - if the journalist approves, you approve.
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