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Weisselberg is the ex-daughter-in-law of the Trump Organization s longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg.
She is cooperating with investigations into Trump s personal finances and those of his company.
Jennifer Weisselberg handed over boxes of financial records to investigators with the Manhattan District Attorney s Office on Thursday as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump s finances.
Weisselberg is the ex-wife of Barry Weisselberg, son of the Trump Organization s longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg. Weisselberg s lawyer previously told Insider s Jacob Shamsian that she was cooperating with the investigation and had several boxes of documents left to deliver.
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Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City on June 22, 2020.Timothy A. Clary / AFP - Getty Images file
April 9, 2021, 12:40 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
When it comes to the investigation into the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, the company s longtime chief financial officer, is a critically important figure.
As Rachel has explained on the show, Weisselberg has been directly involved in everything from possible payments to the president s former alleged mistresses to the scandal-plagued Trump Foundation to helping prepare Trump s tax returns. Weisselberg has also been described as the most senior person in the organization whose last name isn t Trump.
Print article NEW YORK - Investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, acting on a grand jury subpoena, took possession of financial records Thursday morning from the apartment of Jennifer Weisselberg, the former daughter-in-law of a top Trump Organization officer. Jennifer Weisselberg was married to Barry Weisselberg - the son of Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg - from 2004 to 2018. She has said that she had seven boxes of financial records from both her ex-husband and his father, some of which were obtained through divorce litigation. On Thursday, she loaded three boxes and a laptop computer onto a valet cart and wheeled them from her building to a black Jeep with dark-tinted windows that was waiting outside.
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