Trump’s finance chief Allen Weisselberg is granted immunity from prosecution

And aside from Mr Trump, he is perhaps best qualified to answer two of the big questions about the businessman-turned-president over the years: Is he really worth $US10 billion, as he claims, and what is in his tax returns? The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Legal experts told The Times that NY prosecutors could now question Mr Weisselberg about any topic and he would be required to answer under the immunity deal or risk perjury charges.

“Sacha Baron Cohen is releasing his own Trump tape – a clip from Da Ali G Show on which President Trump appeared in 2003”.

Trump’s secret? The still ardent support of his electoral base, which will be key to Republican candidates in November, when the Republican majority in both houses of Congress will be at stake. The 71-year-old has been chief financial officer at the Trump Organization for years, and has served as treasurer for the president’s personal foundation. And while not named in the Cohen case, Mr Weisselberg is believed to be one of two Trump executives mentioned in the suit who reimbursed Mr Cohen and falsely recorded the payments as legal expenses.

But federal prosecutors in NY quickly subpoenaed Weisselberg to appear before a grand jury. “It would be very hard for them to continue”. That raises the highly alarming possibility that Trump might seek to erase Manafort’s conviction by means of a presidential pardon.

A year ago, Trump told The New York Times that Mueller would be crossing a “red line” if he began to look at Trump’s and his family’s finances unrelated to Russian Federation.

Cohen – who arranged hush-money payments shortly before the November 2016 USA presidential election to two women who said they had had sex with Trump in 2006 – on Tuesday pleaded guilty in NY to campaign finance violations and other criminal charges.

However, Cohen reportedly told lawmakers behind closed doors past year that he didn’t know of any foreknowledge by Trump of the meeting. But prosecutors said that there was no retainer.

Cohen may not have much credibility left, but he was speaking to a federal judge when he implicated Trump in a federal crime. According to Ryan, the reimbursement exposes the company to laws banning so-called straw donors. He remained in NY when Trump moved to Washington.

Trump was returning from a rally in West Virginia just hours after two former members of his inner circle were found or pleaded guilty, when one passenger quipped that a news story would surely soon be breaking about the president fuming onboard. It’s not known whether the documents were preserved. George says he worked at the Los Angeles office of the National Enquirer. The DA’s investigation comes in light of statements made by Cohen during his guilty plea proceeding in federal court this week.

The incriminating Trump records were reportedly stored alongside similar documents detailing catch-and-kill deals of various other celebrities.

“The only reason to do that would be to hide the nature of the payment and to make it tax deductible”, Ware said.

“I know stories involving, you know, marital discord”, he said. “Well, this is lots and lots and lots of billowing smoke”.