Trump Organization: Criminal Probe Against CFO Is ‘Scorched Earth’ Attempt to Go After Trump

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The Trump Organization has reacted to reports that its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, has surrendered to a Manhattan prosecutor and may face a grand jury indictment.

In a statement on July 1, the company described the criminal probe against Weisselberg and the company as a political witch hunt.

“Allen Weisselberg is a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather who has worked at the Trump Organization for 48 years. He is now being used by the Manhattan district attorney as a pawn in a scorched earth attempt to harm the former President,” a Trump Organization spokesperson said in a statement. “The district attorney is bringing a criminal prosecution involving employee benefits that neither the IRS nor any other District Attorney would ever think of bringing.

“This is not justice; this is politics.”

Weisselberg’s attorneys confirmed to news outlets that he surrendered on July 1.

The Trump Organization didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.

The charges come in the midst of a nearly three-year investigation by Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office into the Trump Organization, a real estate firm owned by former President Donald Trump and operated by his family members. The former commander-in-chief has described Vance’s probe as a partisan affair designed to politically wound him.

A lawyer for Trump earlier this week told Politico that Vance’s office informed him that Trump won’t face charges in the case.

“We asked, ‘Is there anything else?’” Trump lawyer Ronald Fischetti told the political news website on June 28, referring to the conversation he had with Vance’s office. “They said, ‘No.’

“It’s crazy that that’s all they had. They just said, ‘When this indictment comes down, [Trump] won’t be charged. Our investigation is ongoing.’”

Last week, Fischetti said that a company shouldn’t be indicted for allegedly not paying taxes on benefits.

“It’s outrageous. It’s unprecedented. It’s never happened before,” Fischetti said, according to CNN.

BY JACK PHILLIPS

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