that he routinely got for christmas, and what else is, the worst thing you can do is have somebody who is as close to donald as i was. more so allen weisselberg being in opposition the way i am. they learned through their experience with you, not to cut them off, to continue to pay him, and do you think some of his he thinks he s covering for trump. i think the jury believed he wasn t being forthright either, neither did the judge. none the less, five months turning into 100 days. i did half that amount in solitary confinement. i certainly, for a 75-year-old man, rikers is no place for him.
allen weisselberg. can anyone corroborate what you have shared with us? absolutely. and that is? keith davidson, allen weisselberg, president trump. i just want the american public to understand the explosive nature of your testimony on this document. are you telling us, mr. cohen, that the president directed transactions in conspiracy with allen weisselberg and his son, donald trump jr., as part of a criminal experience of financial fraud, is that your testimony today? yes! wait, there is more because allen weisselberg was his wing man, inflating and deflating taxes, multiple criminal and civil investigations, including and especially that sweeping
about over the past several years in a case that started with not one, but two fights of the supreme court to get the former president s taxes and now his top money man. as you said, somebody who s central to his business, the trump organization, of finding himself in handcuffs on his way to jail. i m going to ask a good question. i have one follow up for you first. did this judge accept allen weisselberg taking responsibility for the determination to pay himself and his grandchildren s tuition and pay himself in the form of leased cars, himself in the form of a rented apartment, did they believe him that that was all his idea? right. right. exactly, and that s what i thought you were asking me. i think what the judge here and the jury say, it was really more up to the jury.
what was this about. i guess what i m getting at is no i mean, i can t imagine, you tell me, was it allen weisselberg s idea to pay himself in tuition for his grandchildren and rental cars from trump. remember, allen is not the only one that received these sort of benefits. other executives received similar benefits as well. allen weisselberg was as close to being ceo as anybody else that was there. more so even than the children. when donald ended up moving to d.c. and they put the trump org allegedly in trust, one of the issue was who s going to sign every single check. the answer was clear, everybody knew who was going to be in advance. that was allen weisselberg, the trustee of the trust. he had been with donald, for decades. and his father before that, yes. allen is not a cpa, allen was a bookkeeper, who ultimately
rose to the position quickly of cfo because he did for donald what donald wanted. anyone, i ll give you an example. weisselberg made a comment that he told the jurors he be trayed the trump family s trust by conspireing with a subordinate to hire decades, luxury cars, in his grandchildren s private school tuition. let me be clear, the apartment his son was living in is owned by donald and that the vehicles that were leased were leased off of the trump account. as well as the trump tuition, the children s tuition that was paid for from the trump organization. so the nonsense and whose idea was it to compensate executives with those benefits? it may have been allen s, it may have been donald s, it may have been somebody else s. the point is it doesn t matter whose idea it was.