Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Prosecutors Submit SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE of CFO During Trump Trial

Episode Date: October 10, 2023

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the developments in the first day of the second week of the civil fraud trial against Donald Trump in New York where his former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg spilled the beans and gave damaging testimony against Trump.  Head to https://TryFum.com/legalaf and use code LEGALAF to save 10% off when you get the journey pack today! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Generally except for the county principals, I don't know what's in GAP. I never took the CPA exam. Okay. I never studied for it. So I don't know all the various components of what gap is. Are there any components you know about what gap is? Not really. Okay. That was the deposition of Alan Weiselberg, a convicted, felon, and former chief financial officer of the Trump organization. That deposition was taken in connection with the New York Attorney General general civil fraud case against Donald Trump trial has

Resumed this week Alan Weiselberg was convicted in the Manhattan district attorney felony case against the Trump organization where Alan Weiselberg pled guilty and the Trump organization was convicted by a jury I'm Ben Weiselius from the Midas Touch Network Alan Weiselberg's testimony today at the New York Attorney General Civil Broadcast in Manhattan was explosive bombshell after bombshell. Now, you saw at the beginning of the video, Alan Weiselberg stated that he is not familiar

with generally accepted accounting principles. Here's what went down in the testimony today. Hat tip and shout out to Adam Klassfeld, who is in the courtroom and providing some of these updates. So the New York Attorney General Lawyer showed Alan Weisselberg an agreement that he signed with the Trump organizations outside accountant, the Mazezers accounting firm, showing his obligations, sharing data with the accounting firm. And here is what Weisselberg agreed to.

Quote, the statements referred to above being provided to mazers is fairly presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In other words, gap generally accepted accounting principles, which Weiselberg did not know what generally accepted accounting principles are because he says he's not a CPA, which he isn't. Then Weiselberg was asked in cross examination if he was obligated to provide the outside accounting for measures with contradictory information about valuations. Weisselberg then started to tell this long story in the New York Attorney General said, it is a yes or no question. Were you ordered to provide contradictory valuations to mazers? Weiselberg then responded, yes, then Weiselberg was shown this clause from his agreement with mazers, quote,

we have not knowingly withheld from you any financial records or related data in our judgment that would be relevant to your compilation. In other words, the Trump organization was signing off to Mazeers that they did not knowingly with hold financial records or related data that in the judgment of the Trump organizations would be relevant to the compilation being prepared by Mazeers. One of the things that Donald Trump's lawyers have been arguing is that, well, the only things that we withheld, we didn't withhold anything that was material, but if we deemed it to be material, we would provide it. If we didn't deem it material, we could withhold it.

And then the New York Attorney General, cross-examining Weisselberg made it clear. There's nothing here that allows Donald Trump to make the determination about what's material or not material and not providing accurate financial data to the accounting firm. And so there, again, Alan Weiselberg convicted felon for fraud had to admit to engaging in misconduct there as well. And another big moment, Perry Mason style moment in the courtroom, Alan Weisselberg was forced to admit

that the square footage that he used to determine the valuation of Trump's triplex was utterly false. Here's how it's described by Classfield. In rapid fire questioning, Solomon goes year by year, pressing Weisselberg, and Solomon's the lawyer for the New York Attorney General, pressing Weisselberg about his assumption

of the square footage of the Trump Tower triplex. Weisselberg testified that he learned that his assumption was wrong, that it was not 30,000 square feet, which he used to calculate the valuation, which would have made the triplex, like the most valuable property in all of New York by multiples, when in fact it was a 10,000 square foot property, and they just used false numbers. So Wiselberg then tries to do the thing where he goes, well, I don't recall why I, you know, got the assumption wrong. He claims not to recall being put on notice that the 30,000 square foot number was wrong.

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the first amendment to the declaration of the Trump Tower. You were the chief financial officer during that period. Yes, I was. Your Honor, I'd move to admit the exhibit. Exhibit, first amendment declaration to Trump Tower condominium is hereby admitted, okay, let's take a look at this document. Mr. Weiselberg, does this document disclose that the triplex's actual square footage was 10,996 square feet, not 30,000 square feet. Well, is that what this document says? Well, yes, I think it says that. And Trump's statement of financial condition, Mr. Weiselberg claims that the triplex was 30,000 square feet. Is that true?

Well, yeah, that's true. Okay, so is that false? Is that contradictory? Were you ordered to submit contradictory information to the mazer's firm, the outside accounting firm? Yes. And I mean, just great question. I mean, I tried to reenact what went down, but that's basically how it went down. Unfortunately, there's no cameras in the courtroom during the actual cross examination. So then New York, the New York Attorney General Lawyer Solomon just kept at it and go asks Alan Weissselberg, do you recall by the way a Forbes reporter reaching out to you for a

press inquiry about Trump's net worth? What do you think Weissselberg goes? I don't recall. Okay, let's take a look at this email that you received dated September 19, 2016. Is this an email to yes, move to admit admitted? Okay, well, here we have Luisa Crow, the magazine's assistant managing editor, emailing you, Mr. Weisslerberg. Is that the email? Is that an email you received? Yes. And is this an email about the evaluation of the various properties? Yes, so you do recall now. Yes, well, tell me about that. Well, this is Weiselberg.

We spent an inordinate amount of time going back and forth with them. Oh, so you do remember, and it's an inordinate amount of time now. So you didn't recall now. Now you recall. And then isn't it true that a year later in 2017, Forbes magazines, Dan Alexander told you that he believed that the Penthouse was 10,996 feet. Do you recall that or you need me to show you another email,

Mr. Weiselberg. And Mr. Weiselberg goes, oh, I don't recall. All right, well, let's take a look at this email. Solomon notes that what's at issue here is an objective fact. You realize we're talking about objective facts. It is not 30,000 square feet, Mr. Weisslberg. It is 10,000 square feet.

You want to know, Weisslberg, as well, I never focused on the triplex. To be honest with you, I never focused on the triplex. I looked at the bigger numbers of Jeff McConney's spreadsheet. Oh, Jeff McConney's spreadsheet. Oh, Jeff McConney, who previously testified that you ordered him to commit fraud on Friday when McConney testified, is that who you're referring to? That Jeff McConney. Uh, uh, um, so that's how the cross examination worked. And by the way, Weiselberg's been with the Trump organization since like 1973. He talked about working with Trump's dad, Fred Trump at the beginning.

He claimed to be involved in real estate for 50 years, but apparently doesn't know generally accepted accounting principles and is not a CPA, but yet is the CFO of the Trump organization. And yeah, started working with Fred Trump back in 1973, 50 years in real estate, and he received a severance agreement back in 2022. He says for, which he signed, he says January 9, 2023 for $2 million. Remember, he served in Rikers Island for his criminal conduct. He pled guilty in the Manhattan District Attorney for OK. So disasterous day of trial again for Donald Trump.

And here's, you know, that's the evidence right there folks. And I'll just show you this clip. Here's Donald Trump saying that Weisselberg was the one who knew generally accepted accounting principles. Play this clip. To meet your obligation here of presenting the information to counter it in accordance with Gap. Was Alan Weisselberg responsible for that?

Exactly the form. I would say yes. Just follow the facts folks, follow the evidence. That's what we got to do. Evidence based system. I'm Ben Meisel, this is from the Midas Touch Network. And subscribe, we're on our way to two million subscribers. Thanks to your support.

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