Questions for Allen Weisselberg

Journalists who cover Trump’s finances have heard, from source after source, some variation of “I don’t know, but Allen does” about questions regarding Trump’s unorthodox accounting practices. Weisselberg is obsessively private, but he did give a deposition in a Trump Foundation lawsuit that revealed his willingness to engage in practices that appear far outside financial norms.

  New Yorker

You mean illegal?

[H]ere are the questions that I believe investigators and oversight-committee members might find worth asking.

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Here are a couple of the questions that particularly piqued my interest:

Michael Cohen gave the House Committee on Oversight and Reform summary financial records from 2011 to 2013. They show the Trump Organization’s liquid cash and securities position growing dramatically over these years, even though the company was, simultaneously, spending several hundred million dollars in cash on golf properties. It appears that the Trump Organization acquired at least four hundred million dollars in cash at a time when it made no major sales and experienced no major change in its income-generating businesses. Where did that money come from?

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Over the past decade, President Trump has primarily invested his own cash in golf courses. Golf courses are often a money-losing proposition. Why this shift to golf? Why pay for it solely out of his own money? Why invest so much in a handful of properties? Did other people give money to pay for these courses? If so, who, and how much, and through which entities?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.