The former daughter-in-law of Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg believes that he will flip on the former president to save himself and his sons.
Jennifer Weisselberg, who was married to Weisselberg’s son Barry between 2004 and 2018, made the prediction about her ex-husband’s father Friday. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who obtained Trump’s tax returns, has engaged in efforts designed at “flipping” Weisselberg, the Washington Post reported March 3.
The district attorney purportedly has plans to involve Weisselberg’s family in the inquiry, including two of his sons, one of whom works directly for the Trump Organization and the other issued loans to the company.
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Jennifer Weisselberg thinks her former father-in-law will “turn on” Trump because “his sons have too much criminal liability,” she said, adding, “It’s the only way that I see it.”
When asked what “bothered her most” about the set-up between her former father-in-law and the former president, Weissenberg answered, “The misuse of power and influence they used, the control. The fact that any cost, it doesn’t matter how the other side in a deal makes out. They don’t care. It’s so self-serving. And it’s unethical. There’s no moral compass to that company.”
Vance received Trump’s tax returns after a yearlong fight following a Supreme Court ruling that denied the former president’s appeal to keep the documents sealed. Vance initially subpoenaed Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, in August 2019 to begin an investigation as to whether the former commander in chief inflated the value of his assets to gain loans and tax breaks.
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Trump has been subjected to a civil investigation from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who’s investigating him for similar reasons. James’s office has been “reviewing tax information from the Trump Organization,” but the recent verdict on his business documents do not affect her inquiry as “there’s a wall of separation between” her orbit and the Manhattan district attorney, she said.
Trump rebuked Vance’s investigation, characterizing it as a “fishing expedition” and a “continuation of the witch hunt — the greatest witch hunt in history.”
