ABC News is reporting that Jeff McConney, senior vice president and controller for the Trump Organization was the first employee called to testify before the special grand jury which was empaneled by the Manhattan District Attorneys office to hear evidence against Donald Trump and his company. His testimony is being read as a sign that prosecutors have “burrowed deep into the company’s finances.”
McConney is one of the dominoes next to Allen Weisselberg, and he reported to Weisselberg every day.
“Complex accounting issues are crucial to this investigation, as is the knowledge and intent of the people at the Trump Organization involved in these transactions,” said Daniel R. Alonso, the former chief assistant district attorney in Manhattan and now a partner in private practice at Buckley LLP.
“In any case like that, the two most important people — whether as targets or witnesses — are the company’s CFO and the company’s controller,” Alonso told ABC News.
As part of his probe, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has been investigating the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg’s financial dealings — specifically, what fringe benefits he received from the Trumps in addition to his salary, and whether taxes were appropriately paid for any such compensation, sources have previously told ABC News.
“If, as has been reported, the DA is targeting Allen Weisselberg, it’s a logical step to seek testimony from the controller, who presumably reports to him and works with him every day,” Alonso said.
Vance wants Weisselberg to flip on Trump, and it looks like that goal just came one step closer to being a reality. Weisselberg knows which Trump closets contain which skeletons. You can see why Mango Mussolini lives in his fantasy world of being reinstated as president this summer, with this breathing down his neck.
Way past the end of the beginning, and now well past the beginning of the end for The Greatest Loser.