New-criminal attorney to dive deep into the tax returns, statements, net worth, bank accounts, credit cards. reporter: and she weisselberg s son, barry, divorced in 2018. with trump and his company, the trump organization, now indicted and others under investigation for possible-tax fraud, insurance fraud, grand larsceny and other alleged schemes to defraud. jennifer weisselberg is a go-to witness for investigators because of her knowledge of her former father-in-law, allen weisselberg, and his role in the trump organization. she says conversations with investigators have focused on the compensation and gifts received from the trump organization. does it surprise you that investigators are zeroing in on allen weisselberg? absolutely not. i mean, he is the money person. reporter: weisselberg has been the company s moneyman for more than two decades. he, first, started working with the trump family in the 1970s when trump s father, fred trump, was in charge. these days, he s not ju
so when it comes to those hush-money payments, would allen weisselberg know if trump had knowledge of them? absolutely, yes. he wouldn t do anything without him. he would never want he s not he he s he would never do anything without his approval. reporter: at first, trump said he had no knowledge of the payments. then, his attorneys admitted that trump reimbursed cohen for the $130,000 hush-money payment he made to porn star, stormy daniels. if trump did make hush-money payments, then he may have violated election law. the questions surrounding all of it, of course, is will allen weisselberg cooperate? and share what he knows about his boss? did donald trump sign off on everything that that allen weisselberg touched? or did he have the ability to go rogue? allen weisselberg doesn t go rogue. allen weisselberg and him have a conversation about everything that they do. together. yes. he does. donald trump knows everything that he is doing.
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Cfo of the trump organization. he, also, handles the trump family s personal expenses. he knows things. and manhattan district attorney, cy vance, and new york s attorney general, who are investigating trump, want details. there is the issue of the so-called hush-money payments, which were allegedly used to silence two women who came forward during campaign 2016. alleging they had had affairs with donald trump. affairs, the former president denies. michael cohen, trump s former fixer and attorney, says he secretly recorded a conversation with trump talking about payments to one of the women. the recordings were released in 2018. and on them, cohen mentions allen weisselberg. which would mean weisselberg was in the know about the shell company, allegedly, set up to make the payment. i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. reporter: cohen has said,
Donald trump, in the indictment, is, basically, nonexistent. well, first, let s get smoking spreadsheet into the vernacular, if we can. second, to the point of how closely the former president might be tied to this. tim, i want to ask you about that because you have this piece in bloomberg today which is really interesting and it references the 2007 deposition stemming from an unsuccessful libel suit the former president filed against you. what did trump say under oath about how closely he worked with weisselberg on the company finances? that they worked hand in glove, john. and that it wasn t trump merely signing off on documents that that weisselberg prepared for him, without any input from trump. these were documents they presented to banks and other entities. they were seeking loans from. that purport to present an accurate snapshot of the company s valuations and finances. and we deposed trump for two