Allen Weisselberg

Allen Howard Weisselberg (born August 15, 1947) is an American businessman who was convicted of tax evasion in connection with his role as former chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization.

[9] He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in nearby East New York, before receiving a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Pace University in 1970.

[25] In May 2024, former Trump Organization comptroller Jeffrey McConney testified that Wiesselberg instructed him to make reimbursement payment to Cohen in 2017.

[30] Cohen further stated that Weisselberg coordinated the repayment to him after he made the hush money payment for Daniels on Trump's behalf.

[31] The New York Times reported that investigators had also asked at least one witness about Weisselberg’s sons—Barry, who had managed Wollman Rink, and Jack, who works at Ladder Capital, a Trump Organization lender.

[35][36] CNN reported in May 2021 that the New York State Attorney General had opened a criminal tax investigation into Weisselberg months earlier.

[38] Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan District Attorney's office in New York City on July 1, 2021,[39] hours before the grand jury's indictments against him and the Trump Organization were unsealed.

[42] As part of the guilty plea deal, he agreed to testify against The Trump Organization at trial and to pay "almost $2 million in back taxes, interest and penalties and waive any right to appeal.

Weisselberg also testified that during the cleanup, Trump's sons knew the company paid executives' personal expenses that were not reported as income, and provided bonuses as if they were independent contractors.

[7][54] The plea deal describes these two counts: He also admitted that he gave false information in late 2023 at the civil fraud trial.

[54] On March 4, 2024, Weisselberg pled guilty in a Manhattan New York state court to two counts of perjury related to lying under oath during the civil fraud trial.

[60] In 1978, Weisselberg purchased a modest ranch-style house in Wantagh, New York, a suburban hamlet in Long Island's Nassau County.

This would remain his primary residence until 2013, when he and his wife, Hilary, sold the property for $468,000 and "moved into a high floor" of a luxury apartment building in the Trump Organization's Riverside South development on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

But for Allen, it's a love affair.”[36] His son Jack Weisselberg is a loan-origination executive at Ladder Capital, which has acted as a lender to the Trump Organization.