A senior Trump Organization official has testified before a state grand jury in an ongoing criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his family business, according to multiple reports.
ABC News first reported on Friday that the company’s controller Jeffrey McConney had testified before the grand jury. The New York Times confirmed that reporting, identifying McConney as a long-serving finance executive for the Trump Organization of more than three decades.
The testimony from a high-ranking officer involved in overseeing the company’s finances, comes as prosecutors from Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance’s office have reportedly been trying to flip the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg and secure his cooperation in the probe.
McConney’s testimony could create additional pressure for Weisselberg, with the grand jury potentially hearing evidence about him and others.
In recent weeks, the state attorney general’s office had also said it would collaborate with Vance’s criminal probe into Trump, has reportedly been criminally investigating Weisselberg for months.
Prosecutors recently subpoenaed records from his grandchildren’s upscale private school, according to an earlier report from the Wall Street Journal.
The decision to subpoena McConney, comes amid reports that Vance’s office recently convened a special grand jury to hear evidence about Trump, Weisselberg and the Trump Organization.
The investigation into the Trump Organization has focused on potential financial crimes, including whether Trump and his company manipulated property values to obtain certain loans and tax benefits.
Oh, please, please, please, please be the smoking gun that takes down the T**** crime family.
I once heard or read about a lawyer who introduced himself to the court this way: “I’m relatively new to this case, Your Honor. I’ve only been working on it for five years.” The wheels do grind slowly. But every day they grind is a day Trump sweats and worries and does himself physical and psychological harm. Be patient, folks. Let the bad guys worry and be of good cheer yourselves.
Several things that I have to keep reminding myself about Donald J Trump and the Trump Org. is that it’s a small operation, how many employees, well that’s question I’d like to know. Then there is the fact that Donald J Trump apparently invokes loyalty from his employees. Which with the stories of former employees and their description of working in that atmosphere of chaos, I just can’t understand.
We all know from reporting that Weisselberg has been in picture for decades, first with Fred, and now Donald. But this controller has been their for 30 years, why? Either Donald hired incompetent people and Allen controls all financials, or Donald isn’t as clueless as we are led to believe. I’m having a very hard time reconciling these two concepts, as in how Donald knows how do all the financial chicanery, but is clueless in all other human interactions.
If one can put aside Trump’s so-called celebrity, his past business life, and his self-serving politics, at the root and at his core he is an awful human being. He totally lacks any redeeming value, and I am being charitable. He started as a spoiled child, and is now that plus possessing a criminal mind and totally selfish instincts.