Meet the Woman Who Could Send Donald Trump to Prison

[babylonsister]

I honestly hoped we'd be done with talking about mf45, but alas...I sincerely hope the senior Weisselberg has been singing like a bird.

Levin Report
Meet the Woman Who Could Send Donald Trump to Prison
Jennifer Weisselberg has shared information with criminal investigators that could take Trump down.
By Bess Levin
April 12, 2021


As the Manhattan District Attorney’s criminal investigation into potential bank, tax, and insurance fraud by Donald Trump ramps up, there are a number of key figures whose names likely sends shivers down the ex-president’s spine (or would if his handlers had actually explained the seriousness of the situation to him, rather than keeping him in a hermetically sealed bubble wherein he’s only told the election was stolen from him and some day soon he’ll be crowned President for Life). Obviously, one of those people is Cyrus Vance Jr., the veteran D.A. running the investigation who obtained Trump’s tax returns in February. Another is Mark Pomerantz, the prosecutor brought onto the case who helped put John Gotti behind bars. Additionally, there’s Morgan Magionos, who helped bring down former Trump aide Paul Manafort. Yet perhaps the most worrisome figure is an individual who hits closer to home, whom Trump has known for years—Jennifer Weisselberg, the former daughter-in-law of longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.

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Despite earning $200,000 a year for “as long as he could remember,” Weisselberg said in the deposition, according to the Post, that he and Jennifer lived rent-free in Trump-owned apartments, adding that he did not know how taxes on the property were handled. (In addition, his father paid most of his living expenses, including $7,900 in monthly rent for a non-Trump-owned apartment where the couple later lived, $49,000 a year for each of his kids to attend private school, $25,000 each for overnight camp, $2,200 for his daughter’s Hebrew school, and $546 a month for a leased Range Rover.) Speaking of Barry Weisselberg’s financial situation, the documents Vance’s office got a hold of last week have raised a number of questions, according to Air Mail:

According to these documents, Barry’s 2019 pre-tax income was $223,471 and, as per his supplement to Form 1040, his total “withholding from wages”—i.e., taxes—were $59,245, thereby netting him $164,226 post-tax. He also reports annual expenses of $466,500. And yet, even after deducting the $130,272 that he indicates his parents, Allen and Hilary, pay for his children’s private-school tuition and camp, from these annual expenses, Barry is still left with a shortfall of $172,002.

Given that he reports that his bank and investment accounts—excluding his 401(k)—total just $14,123, they do not even come close to making up the difference, leaving this area fertile ground for the investigators and forensic accountants currently combing through the Weisselberg finances. (The Manhattan D.A. has also subpoenaed Allen’s bank records.)

As for Barry Weisselberg’s job managing the Wollman Rink, his ex-wife has suggested he was a gofer for Trump‘s crimes:

According to…Jennifer, Barry’s real job was to be Trump’s eyes on the cash, and as such, she says, once a week he would collect the money, not just from the rink but from all three Trump-run park properties, and walk it to his father’s office in Trump Tower. “What does Allen do with it?” Jennifer asks. “I don’t think all the cash was reported. It was for Trump. That’s why he wanted [Barry] there so bad.”

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. If Trump ever spends even one day in prison, I'll be stunned& ECSTATIC.

[FalloutShelter]

2. Oh boy...Donald's bag man.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. People have had a hard time seeing Trump as a mob boss.

But after we have seen/heard so much of his history and lifestyle,
it suddenly becomes impossible NOT to see it.😬

[FakeNoose]

3. I hope Jennifer Weisselberg has round-the-clock security

Just sayin'

[Hekate]

8. Doubt it. What else she has not got is custody of her own children, which is why she is hell-bent...

...on bringing down her ex and her ex’s boss. Can’t say I blame her one tiny bit. It’s bad enough to discover the apartment is not community property because she and her ex never owned it, but to be treated like Michael Corleone’s ex-wife and lose her kids would send any woman over the edge.

[Blue Owl]

4. Please... someone, ANYONE, who can send Fat Fuck's fat ass to prison -- DO IT NOW!!!

I want that fucker locked up and ZERO chance of him ever squishing his fat ass back into office.

[Xavier Breath]

5. It makes for a great headline

but I fear it will never come to pass.

[not fooled]

6. I was expecting the woman to be Summer Zervos, or

E. Jean Carroll, or any of the other numerous women credibly accusing red don of crimes.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Sounds like a lot of cash moving around

Little people are asking, what the hell do you do with that much cash? Take it to the bank? Pay your bills in cash? Somebody, somewhere has to spend it, hold it, deposit it.