The judgement in the New York civil fraud case against Trump/Trump Org, which was due to be released before the end of January, has been delayed by a week or so and there had been speculation about the delay.
Some had speculated that the unfavourable report of the judge appointed as an independent monitor of the financial transactions of the company had some bearing on the delay. In particular, an asset of a loan of $48m appearing on the books of the business, made to a company controlled by Trump, and which may not be what it seems.
But now it appears Trump's former chief financial officer may be on the hook for perjury.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...weisselberg-reportedly-negotiating-plea-deal/
By way of brief background, during the civil hearing, the former CFO Alan Weisselberg, who has previously been jailed for tax fraud, was called as a witness and claimed 100 times that he could not recall to key aspects of his role as CFO. When questioned about the size and value attributed to Trump's New York triplex apartment, Weisselberg claimed to have had very little to do with it. - At one stage the apartment was valued at $200m, but this was based upon an inflated value and the property being 3 times larger than it actually was. As well as enabling more favourable loan rates, the overvaluing of the properties fed into Trump's ego on his place on the Forbes rich list.
Unfortunately for Weisselberg, during his testimony it seems there was a reporter from Forbes magazine in attendance, whose recollections were better than Weisselberg's. And not only were their recollections better, but Forbes had retained the emails etc., from Weisselberg and others from the Trump organisation about the triplex.
