NEW YORK — Jurors in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial were shown a lease to an apartment for longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg — signed by Donald Trump himself.
The exhibit came as prosecutors questioned the firm’s controller, Jeffrey McConney, about perks they allege were given to senior employees to fatten their pay while hiding their tax obligations. The trial threatens to reveal the inner workings of the real estate empire that set Trump on his path to the White House.
The jury saw that Weisselberg and his wife got a $6,500-a-month apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side paid for by Trump’s company, which even covered their $10,000 moving expenses.
