Prosecutors Reveal Alleged Hush Money Deal to Trump Crony

[babylonsister]

Whoa! News to me. The crook strikes again.

Prosecutors Reveal Alleged Hush Money Deal to Trump Crony
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Prosecutors have alleged in court that the Trump Organization offered former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg more than $1 million to keep his mouth shut.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated May 10, 2024 2:24PM EDT / Published May 10, 2024 1:33PM EDT



In a turn that is oh-so-meta, a brand new hush money deal is now at the center of attention in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial: $750,000 that prosecutors say the business mogul is dangling above Allen Weisselberg’s head to keep him testifying against his former boss.

For the first time on Friday, prosecutors disclosed the strict terms of a severance agreement that the Trump Organization used to promise more than $1 million to its outgoing chief financial officer—as long as he kept his mouth shut.

The 76-year-old disgraced accountant is currently serving a five-month jail sentence on Rikers Island for perjury, having lied to try sparing Trump from legal trouble in a separate case that ultimately fined the tycoon nearly $500 million for bank fraud.

But Weisselberg has conspicuously remained the missing witness at Trump’s first ever criminal trial. Prosecutors allege he was the finance guy who helped manage the hush money deal that kept the porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about her sexual affair with Trump in the final weeks of the 2016 election. Documents in court show that Weisselberg structured the $420,000 repayment to Michael Cohen (then Trump’s personal attorney) after the so-called “fixer” had fronted the $130,000 initial payment to the porn star.

In court on Friday, prosecutors revealed that the Trump Organization has promised to pay Weisselberg three installments of $250,000 due later this year in June, September, and December. However, only if he doesn’t “cooperate” with law enforcement.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-trial-prosecutors-reveal-alleged-hush-money-deal-to-trump-crony-allen-weisselberg?ref=home

[gab13by13]

1. Old news

Why do you think Weiselberg perjured himself twice for TSF?

[canetoad]

2. Do you have a source for that?

That Weiselberg took money specifically for keeping his mouth shut?

It's just that I have not heard this either. Yes, Weiselberg took a lot of kick-backs from tsf when he was CFO. He took money/bribes in various ways to avoid tax for both himself and Trump. This has been known for a long time.

What I'm hearing for the first time is that it can be proven that the money was for his silence. I'd just assumed it was, knowing how these folk operate, but had not read it anywhere.

[onecaliberal]

3. It came out in court late this afternoon I believe.

[canetoad]

4. Thank you

So it's not old news.

[onecaliberal]

5. I didn't know about it.

[babylonsister]

7. Article says 'brand new' hush money deal, it's

dated Friday, so how old could this possibly be?

For the first time on Friday, prosecutors disclosed the strict terms of a severance agreement that the Trump Organization used to promise more than $1 million to its outgoing chief financial officer—as long as he kept his mouth shut.

[lindysalsagal]

6. Buying obstruction of justice. Gotta be illegal.