The judge in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial indicated he’s weighing how a potential perjury charge might factor into his final ruling.
The judge in former President Donald Trump’s indicated Tuesday he’s weighing how a potential perjury charge against Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, might factor into his final ruling.
Judge Arthur Engoron wrote to lawyers for Trump and the New York Attorney General’s Office asking for guidance on how to handle a report in the New York Times last week that said Weisselberg is in talks to plead guilty to lying on the stand.
Weisselberg’s October testimony in the civil case, in which he is also a defendant, was unexpectedly cut short after Forbes published an article claiming he lied under oath.
In 2017, the magazine reported that financial statements had described Trump’s penthouse apartment in Trump Tower as much larger and worth hundreds of millions of dollars more than its true size and value.
Weisselberg testified that he “never focused” on the valuation of the triplex apartment, but the Forbes article in October said Weisselberg’s emails to reporters from years earlier showed he “played a key role” in supporting the apartment’s false valuation.
