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Lauren Aratani in New York

Trump fraud trial: Allen Weisselberg grilled on financial report discrepancies

Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg appears during his sentencing hearing in Manhattan supreme court, on 10 January 2023.
Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg appears during his sentencing hearing in Manhattan supreme court, on 10 January 2023. Photograph: Curtis Means/AP

The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization was grilled over discrepancies in financial statements as the second week of Donald Trump’s fraud trial kicked off in New York.

Prosecutors questioned Allen Weisselberg, who worked at the company for decades, about whether the Trump Organization was aware of inconsistencies between documents. The New York attorney general’s office has been trying to prove that Weisselberg and others at the Trump Organization knowingly inflated the value of Trump’s assets to boost his net worth.

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