"Trump is in even more trouble": Judge demands answers after report that Trump CFO "lied under oath"

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Salon

Published February 6, 2024 12:31PM (EST)


New York Judge Arthur Engoron demanded answers from the former president’s lawyers in a new email suggesting “Trump is in even more trouble,” The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery reports.

The New York Times reported last week that longtime former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is in talks with Manhattan prosecutors to plead guilty to perjury after a Forbes article discredited his claims about Trump’s inflated penthouse apartment value. Weisselberg was abruptly pulled from the stand in Trump’s fraud trial after the article was published.

“As the presiding magistrate, the trier of fact, and the judge of credibility, I of course want to know whether Mr. Weisselberg is now changing his tune, and whether he is admitting he lied under oath in my courtroom at this trial,” Engoron wrote in an email to Trump’s legal team and the New York attorney general’s office.

Engoron also noted that “Weisselberg’s lies could be used to completely toss out everything he said in defense of the company—and even allow the judge to make negative inferences about the Trump Organization’s fraudulent conduct,” according to Pagliery.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/02/06/trump-is-in-even-more-trouble-demands-answers-after-report-that-cfo-lied-under-oath/?in_brief=true

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Link to copy of email (PDF) is here.

[elleng]

1. *"As the presiding magistrate, the trier of fact, and the judge of credibility,

I of course want to know whether Mr. Weisselberg is now changing his tune, and whether he is admitting he lied under oath in my courtroom at this trial,” Engoron wrote in an email to Trump’s legal team and the New York attorney general’s office.'

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[underpants]

2. Uh oh

[Ray Bruns]

6. Ha

https://m.

[FakeNoose]

3. When you work for the Chump Organization, all you can do is lie

Why did prosecutors assume Allen Weisselberg would tell the truth about anything?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. IIRC

he testified as part of an earlier plea agreement (I believe for a reduced sentence the first go-around). Now he's doing another plea deal...

[Attilatheblond]

11. If, in this new plea deal, he testifies that Trump paid or threatened him to lie,

Does that bode ill for Trump in ANOTHER obstruction of justice crime?

I need a scoreboard to keep track.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Good question

I know if Weisselberg does agree to plead guilty to perjury, then I expect he will have to really "give up the goods" more than he did the last time.

Weisselberg did actually serve time for his own role and crimes associated with the financial fraud (he took the initial hit for the Org).

[Ray Bruns]

7. That's the whole problem with the people in the Trump organization

They gotten away with lying so long they don’t know how to do anything else

[samsingh]

5. kick

[Escurumbele]

9. I like the quote you show on your post, only one thing missing "Eliminate the Electoral College"

[bluestarone]

8. I'm betting his sons are using more ketchup too!

The whole FN family are domestic terrorists!!

[Stuart G]

10. K & R (no text)

[Mawspam2]

13. Weisselberg got a reduced sentence if...

...he promised to tell the truth against Trumpco. He didn't uphold his deal. Send him back to prison and let him rot.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. He's working on another plea deal

and I expect absent a verifiable BOMBSHELL he'll be right back in prison.

[Mopar151]

16. Depends on who he is MORE scared of!

I suspect his recent stay in the hoosegow has changed his head around....

[BumRushDaShow]

17. I think he had spent his time at Riker's

so yeah...

[republianmushroom]

15. trumps pucker factor just increased 10 fold.

[struggle4progress]

18. "Wait! What? Lying about the size of my apartment was an official act!

And my CFO should inherit my Presidential immunity!"