#Steinglass is now focused on the“gross-up” of the amount that #MichaelCohen was paid for tax purposes. Legitimate legal fees are not “grossed up.”
Steinglass reminds the jury that #JeffreyMcConney, the fmr controller of the #TrumpOrganization, testified that in 50 yrs he was never aware of a payment being doubled for taxes. He then argues that this gross-up was made because the reimbursement was disguised as income.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #ElectionInterference
#Steinglass refers to exhibits that #JeffreyMcConney, a longtime loyal #Trump employee, testified about: #AllenWeisselberg’s notes setting up the repayments.
Steinglass refers to these exhibits as “the smoking guns” of the prosecution’s argument, saying they “completely blow out of the water the claim the money paid to Cohen” was for legal services.
(see above exhibit 35)
link:
https://ww2.nycourts.gov/press/index.shtml
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
#Steinglass list the many witnesses who testified who are still loyal to #Trump: #HopeHicks, #MadeleineWesterhout, #JeffreyMcConney, #RhonaGraff & David #Pecker. Steinglass says that Pecker has “absolutely no reason to lie here,” & adds, “and yet, his testimony is utterly devastating.”
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
#Hoffinger asks #MichaelCohen about meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017 & discussing getting reimbursed for his payment to #StormyDaniels. Cohen is shown an email sent a month later by #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrganization's controller, about the “invoices” [falsified]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
A new witness, Rebecca #Manochio, has taken the stand. Manochio is a junior bookeeper at the #TrumpOrganization. She is being questioned by Rebecca #Mangold, a prosecutor.
Manochio is describing working for #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrg corporate controller who testified earlier in the trial, & #AllenWeisselberg, the fmr CFO who is currently in #jail.
#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
Via #NewRepublic
#JeffreyMcConney, former corporate controller @ #TrumpOrganization, testified in court about a reimbursement payment of $360,000 in 2016 to former Trump attorney & fixer, #MichaelCohen. That payment was “grossed up” from a $180,000 expense, to offset income taxes. The details were handwritten on Trump stationary by McConney, who was taking notes while speaking 2 #AllenWeisselberg, company’s chief financial officer, who told him that Cohen was owed money
Via #PoliticsUSA
#TrumpOrganization exec #JeffreyMcConney is testifying as prosecutors have introduced evidence that #DonaldTrump cooked the books to hide reimbursing #HushMoney to #MichaelCohen.
#Trump lied on his disclosure form to the #OfficeOfGovernmentEthics when he took office, which is so on brand and in character for Trump that it would be shocking if not a single eye blinked in the courtroom.
"Poor #JeffreyMcConney" cries out #PaulaReid of #CNN (posterchild for everything broken in "media elite" "commentators") to the merciless Gods, all he did was organize and cover up the proven criminal accounting for a racist, bigoted, lecherous, money-laundering mutt for over 30 years and this is the thanks society gives him? "You all made him cry!" She wails.
Overview of NY Attorney General vs Trump Financial Fraud Complaint and Trump Assets as of June 30, 2021 https://newstracs.com/ny-ag-vs-trump-and-overview-of-trump-assets-as-of-june-30-2021/2022/10/03/ #AllenWeisselberg, #DonaldTrumpJr, #EricTrump, #IvankaTrump, #JeffreyMcConney, #LetitiaJames, #NewYorkAttorneyGeneral, #NYAGVsTrump, #TheTrumpOrganization, #Trump, #TrumpLawsuit
Newsweek
Letitia James Has Found 'Smoking Gun' Against Donald Trump—Attorney
Nov 23, 2023 at 12:24 PM EST
By Kate Plummer
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-civil-fraud-trial-documents-letitia-james-mary-1846388
:
#arthurengoron #democrats #donaldtrump #donaldtrumpfraud #jeffreymcconney #joegallina #judgearthurengoron #judgeengoron #letitiajames #marytrump #trump #trumpfraud
:::
Trump's witness cries after dismantling Donald's Mar-a-Lago claims
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-witness-cries-court-jeffrey-mcconney-1845732
#Newsweek #TrumpWitness #MarALagoClaims #Court #JeffreyMcConney #Cries #Politics #News
In the $250M civil fraud trial, former #TrumpOrganization Comptroller #JeffreyMcConney testified that #EricTrump, after a phone call, increased a New York property's value from $25M to $101M. McConney, granted immunity, admitted assisting in tax evasion and complying with CFO #AllenWeisselberg's requests out of job security fears.
https://www.newsweek.com/eric-trump-quadrupled-property-value-jeffrey-mcconney-1834145
#EricTrumpPropertyValue #QuadrupledValue #AccountantSays #Newsweek #RealEstate #TrumpOrganization #Politics #News
« #NewYork #SupremeCourt Justice #ArthurEngoron this week ordered that #DonaldTrump, who is currently out on #bail, and his business associates must report on any movement of assets or creation of new business entities.
In a ruling issued on Thursday, Engoron said that Trump, #EricTrump, #AllenWeisselberg, and #JeffreyMcConney must report to #IndependentMonitor #BarbaraJones. »
#Trump is currently slated to be the government's second-to-last #witness in the AG's case.
The AG's witness list also includes Trump's fmr lawyer #MichaelCohen, Trump's daughter #IvankaTrump, co-defendants #AllenWeisselberg & #JeffreyMcConney, & multiple current & fmr #TrumpOrganization execs.
Trump's #certificates for his #NewYork #businesses must be canceled for #fraud….
Engoron ruled any #BusinessCertificate filed by #Trump, his sons #EricTrump & #DonaldTrumpJr, #AllenWeisselberg & #JeffreyMcConney must be #canceled.
#ConMan #ConArtist #LyingLiarWhoLies
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23991862-engoron-decision-and-order-september-26
