Page 5 - Barbara Rez News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That they're putting pressure on the chief financial officer, mr. weisselberg, in an attempt to get him to cooperate in the investigation and potentially provide testimony against the president. so this is quite significant just given the nature of the crimes that are being alleged and the people who they're calling to testify. >> yeah, and you say alleged. it's important to point out no charges have been filed against anyone in the trump organization. barbara, you worked in the trump organization for 18 years. who is jeffrey mcconney? what's his role in the company and his relationship with a...

Government. you've potentially committed unlawful acts and they have committed to never prosecuting you for anything? so, yes, it becomes a credibility thing for the individual who testifies. but at the end of the day, what the policy is here in new york state is to get valuable testimony and by ensuring that you're not prosecuting the people that come before you, that's probably the way to do it. >> barbara, how loyal is allen weisselberg to the former president? >> how what? >> loyal is he? >> that's a good question. he was always extremely loyal. that's what i was going to say as an aside. ...

Subpoenaed jeffrey mcconnie, a long-serving financial executive at the company. according to "the times" he's worked at the trump organization nearly 35 years. joining us now is elliot williams who served as deputy assistant attorney general during the obama administration. also barbara rez, former executive vice president at the trump organization and author of "tower of lies, what my 18 years of working with donald trump reveals about him." eliot, let me start with you. how significant do you think this could be in this legal case, that a trump organization employee has testified? >> it's no...

Grants immunity to witnesses compelled to testify before the grand jury. that means he can't be prosecuted for anything that he says during the course of this testimony. that's a huge -- of huge value to prosecutors because it allows them to ensure truthful testimony. now, if this -- if someone does get charged and this does go to trial, defense attorneys would likely challenge this witness and say, wait a second, you got a really sweet deal from the government. you've potentially committed unlawful acts and they have committed to never prosecuting you for anything? so, yes, it becomes a credi...

Number one, the chief financial officer and, number two, the controller. any dollar that the trump organization spent, whether in the form of inflating or deflating real estate assets or unlawfully making payments potentially to allen weisselberg would have gone through these two individuals. so what this all is a sign of is that they're putting pressure on the chief financial officer, mr. weisselberg, in an attempt to get him to cooperate in the investigation and potentially provide testimony against the president. so this is quite significant just given the nature of the crimes that are bein...