Former CFO Allen Weisselberg testified in the Trump Organization's criminal trial that the company underwent a 'cleanup process' after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg arrives to the courtroom in New York, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022.Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified Thursday that the company stopped paying personal expenses for him and other executives in 2017 as part of a "cleanup process" when Donald Trump was elected president.
Trump began signing three checks per year for each of Weisselberg's two grandchildren to attend Columbia Grammar School at a total annual cost of about $100,000, Weisselberg said. The jury saw images of some of the checks.Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg arrives to the courtroom in New York, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022.
"We were going through an entire cleanup process of the company to make sure that since Mr. Trump is now president that everything was being done properly," Weisselberg said.
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