Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the civil fraud case against Trump, has requested information regarding possible perjury by Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg.
The trial, which lasted for 11 weeks, had its verdict postponed until mid-February by Judge Engoron. The judge referred to a report from The New York Times that detailed Weisselberg’s alleged plea deal with prosecutors.
According to the report, Weisselberg would be required to admit lying on the witness stand in Manhattan Supreme Court and also lying to Letitia James’ investigators as part of his agreement with the Manhattan DA’s office.
It should be noted that Allen Weisselberg previously faced charges related to tax crimes, which some believe were unjustly brought against him by New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan.
Weisselberg was indicted for his involvement in an alleged tax fraud scheme where he reportedly received $1.7 million in tax-free perks like apartments and car leases.
Under pressure from Judge Merchan, Weisselberg pleaded guilty to all 15 tax crime felonies in order to receive a reduced sentence as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
As part of this agreement, he was also required to testify as a witness. In August 2022, Judge Merchan sentenced Weisselberg to five months in Rikers Island jail.
Prosecutors are now applying pressure once again on Weisselberg and plan to use any new information they obtain against Trump at a critical stage in the civil fraud case.
CNBC reported:
The New York judge set to deliver a verdict in the civil business fraud trial of Donald Trump has ordered attorneys in the case to give him details about possible perjury by former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg.
Judge Arthur Engoron, in an email to the attorneys made public Tuesday, said that if Weisselberg had lied in one aspect of his testimony, the judge might disregard anything Weisselberg has said on the witness stand or to investigators.
Engoron flagged a New York Times report last week that said Weisselberg is negotiating a deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office that would require him to plead guilty to perjury.
That report, which cited people with knowledge of the matter, said that Weisselberg would have to admit that he lied during his testimony at Trump’s fraud trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Weisselberg, 76, would also have to say he lied under oath during an interview with the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Times reported.
Judge Engoron previously ruled that Trump committed fraud and ordered the dissolution of his New York businesses. However, the New York appellate court temporarily halted Engoron’s order.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is often associated with radical Marxism, initially demanded $250 million in damages from Trump.
She now seeks a staggering $370 million in damages, even though there is no clear victim in this fraud case. Additionally, James wants to prohibit Trump and his sons from running any businesses in New York.
James also aims to permanently bar Trump from participating in the real estate industry. Her allegations include accusing him of inflating his assets and deceiving lenders and insurance companies.
During the proceedings, a Deutsche Bank executive testified that it is not entirely uncommon to reduce a client’s asset values while approving their loan—a statement that may somewhat support Trump’s defense.
Trump has denounced the prosecution as “election interference at the highest level.”
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This is how the left wing communists do things. These non producing, government hacks that couldn’t get job anywhere else now want to ruin private businesses and extort money from the people that actually make others’ lives better. I suggest that they all read “The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon” by Rudyard Kipling. Most of Americans are the “Awakened Saxons” now:
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
I am extremely glad that “judge” ENGORON ain’t no Saxon, not even Angle
– his name is more for fitting to a Viking hiding in England under a slight give-away ‘non de guerre’ of “ENG(lish M)ORON” dumb enough to think this looks acceptable.
amen
Are these so- called Representatives of Statute Law so arrogant that they do not realize how ridiculous and clownish they appear to those of us who have dealt in or purchased Real Estate in the past? They are no match for the I.Q. smarts of the DONALD.
We have a large population of decent, producing and working people of all colors just quietly seething as they get screwed by the swamp rats, politicians, and other bandits. Since the government is also complicit in many cases and won’t help them, the inevitable backlash will suddenly and explosively happen. We all are the new “Saxons” that Kipling wrote about over a hundred years ago.
You must say that you lied in court and to the illustrious DA or we will send you to prison for (fill in the blank) number of years. How much more corrupt can a Judge and a court get?
Not to worry, the commie freaks will find a way.
Just about impossible to find a judge more corrupt than one who rules the defendant is guilty before the trial begins.
“She now seeks a staggering $370 million in damages, even though there is no clear victim in this fraud case.”
There isn’t a victim PERIOD! Nor have I seen anything that states where these requested damages would go. NO lender working with the Trump organization is claiming fraud. On the contrary, they all say they got paid on time and in full.
According to the filings by Letitia James’ office, she came up with the bulk of these damages based on what her office *imagines* the interest rates on these loans would have been versus what they were. This is clearly a made-up number. None of Trump’s lenders have given any credence to these figures. In point of fact, each lender did an independent evaluation of the Trump organization’s finances and asset values before extending terms for a loan, which is standard practice.
This whole case has been a fraud from the beginning.
The ONLY Victim is Trump…….
Those Communist Bastards continue to bring up so much bullshit against President Trump every time they know they’ve been found out or called out on the Unconstitutional fraud charges that they’ve got to come up with another lie and scheme together and hope that one would stick.
Letishit James and Engmoron, who hasn’t been removed are as corrupt as The Moron turd in Chief Joe Biden and the Communist Democrats and Rinos are.
They’ve made it very clear to the people of the world that very stupid voters in America, could careless what anyone thinks, shows they are the reason America is falling apart..
America’s justice system is by far the most corrupt system run by Criminals..
This biased, liberal judge did not run a courtroom, rather a circus. All of these false, fake, bogus allegations will be dismissed as this judge should be.
Considering Braig, Letitia James, Engoron, and Adams, little wonder N.Y.C. is rapidly decaying and being destroyed. Crime pays in this city, no bail no jail, walk free, and now this.
This judge’s appearance matches his biased flakey demeanor. It would be nice if Trump could sue him personnaly for legal costs when the next highest court level tosses Engoron’s biased uninformed fraud conviction of Trump.
Has anyone noticed that Judge Engoron is a dead ringer for Harpo Marx. The kicker, he is not as smart as Harpo was !
Harpo was not that ugly.
The ‘Old Hippie’ judge is just doing his duty for the Commie cause. Anything to ‘Get Trump’ goes — regardless of lack of evidence or case law or the Constitution. This is what happens when Commies take control.
You tell me folks,does this smirking clown look sane?More like a laughing hyena
He has a face that represents Marxist termites who have taken over the Jackass Party especially when it is for double yucky placed beside an also frequently smirking Chuck Schumer.
Both of these totally corrupt wastes of breathing space causes me to think of villains who appear in Star Wars movies.
Think Adam Schiff. Think Nancy Pelosi.
And quite a few others. Nasty blaugh space alien faces from a hive of villainy in a galaxy far, far away.
On the merits of the case, Judge Arthur Engoron should be thrown off the bench and disbarred.
These asshole judges need to have their lives turned upside down and see how corrupt they really are. They need a total colonoscopy to see where their brains are. They guarantee have skeletons in their crooked dealings just have to find them out and hang them with their on rope. They are definitely crooked
These are all transparent yet dangerous hills for these Communist racist effs to die on, yet die they will!
America, less the thirty percent of us, hahaha, that still support Biden, knows what this is all about.
Trump has upset the status quo. He’s getting too close, so they’re throwing everything at him to see what sticks.
What a waste NYC is and most of the country has become.
God save us!
These filthy democrats are the criminals here it’s clearly seen as they are causing innocent people to lie to get out from being sent to prison with filthy threats, these scumbags like this psycho judge Engoron and that slimy bitch Letitia James are nothing but criminals stealing money from their victims Trump and Weisselberg who is 76 years old threating them like these dirty criminals always do they threaten these people in court they threaten people with laws this is all these filthy dirty democrats are good for that and lying. this scum must be defeated in people voting them all out of every office and make America a free country once again AND KEEP OBAMA FROM SLIPPING HIS DERANGED WIFE FROM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT like they want to do GOD BLESS AMERICA KEEP IT FREE.
I guess now in America if you own a company and want to give a devoted employee perks you can be arrested for accepting them. And people are afraid of Putin, what a joke!!!
No use in commenting on this Judge. He looks like he is out in space. Lord, help us get justice in America to those who deserve it. You are the only one who knows the truth.
THE JUDGE HAS A LAW DEGREE. HE FAILED AS A LAWYER.HE COULD NOT WIN CASES, SO HE DID THE NEXT THING, HE BECAME AN ALL KNOWING JUDGE.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LAWYERS, ACT AS JUDGES ON A LOTTERY BASIS. FAILED LAWYERS SHOULD NOT BE PUT INCHARGE OF OUR COURTS.
BRUNO MC COWSKY, ESQ.
I just noticed the closeup of Engoron at the beginning of this story. Somebody close to this creep who posts shirtless pictures of himself in his HS alumni association newsletters that he ought to start brushing his teeth.
This judge looks and acts like a secondary clown in a low status circus called NY
Enmoron, has a face that wore out 2 bodies.