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Trump Org. CFO’s immunity deal is new problem for Trump

The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen and Olivia Beavers was posted on the Hill website August 24, 2018:

Prosecutors are edging closer and closer to President Trump’s business empire, a fact underlined by the news Friday of an immunity deal reportedly given to the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer (CFO).

While it is unclear that Allen Weisselberg’s reported deal — first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday — puts Trump in any specific legal danger, it does mean that prosecutors investigating former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen will be talking closely to a man with deep knowledge of Trump’s businesses.

“[Weisselberg] knew where every nickel went to, he knew where every nickel came from,” said Travis Snell, a former assistant attorney general for New York state who worked on the Trump University case.

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