Chinanews.com, March 3, according to the US Chinese website, the US "New York Times" quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the Manhattan District Attorney, who is responsible for investigating former President Trump and his family business, is focusing his attention on his long-term role as special agency. Allen Weissellberg, Chief Financial Officer of the Lamp Group.
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The 73-year-old Wesselberg is an accountant. He started his career working for Trump’s father and has been in charge of the Trump Organization’s books since the 1970s.
During Trump's presidency, he ran the Trump Organization with Trump's sons.
The New York Times reported that the Manhattan Attorney's Office has questioned witnesses familiar with Wesselberg's behavior at the company in recent weeks, and this move may increase Wesselberg's pressure to cooperate with the investigation.
Allegedly, Wesselberg's understanding of the Trump Group's financial arrangements is more extensive than any other employee.
This means that if he chooses to cooperate with the investigation, he may provide information that is detrimental to Trump.
Prior to the New York Times report, a report in the Daily Beast last week stated that Wesselberg and Trump Jr. were involved in the Trump Organization during the investigation by the Manhattan Attorney Vance. Activities are the new targets of the investigation.
Vance did not elaborate on what business arrangements his team was investigating into the Trump Organization, but court documents in 2020 showed that the investigation focused on what they called "the Trump Organization's extensive and persistent criminal activities."
Since August 2019, Trump and Vance have been involved in a fierce legal dispute. At that time, Vance’s office issued a subpoena to Trump’s long-term accounting firm Mazars USA, requesting it to turn in Trump’s 8-year tax return. Shan and other financial records as part of the investigation into two "hush money" incidents involving Trump's former personal lawyer Cohen on the eve of the 2016 election.
In late February, the New York prosecutors had obtained these records after the Supreme Court rejected the Trump side’s final efforts to keep his tax forms confidential.
In addition, New York State Attorney General James is launching another investigation on whether the Trump family has falsely reported assets to avoid taxation.