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Holy Shite-!!..Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization CFO, granted immunity by prosecutors... (Original Post) HipChick Aug 2018 OP
Holy shit. bearsfootball516 Aug 2018 #1
Chips are falling....Allen knows all about the $$$ HipChick Aug 2018 #3
Awesome! Weisselberg is our Friday Flipper! FakeNoose Aug 2018 #88
Another one turns... HipChick Aug 2018 #2
Lots of clunky noises coming out of Dirty Donny*s illegitimate republican White House Achilleaze Aug 2018 #4
About as big a fish as you can catch. It's Al Capone time. Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #5
The bookkeeper in The Untouchables exboyfil Aug 2018 #26
... Miles Archer Aug 2018 #27
Solly calls him "Frank?" Harker Aug 2018 #53
Capone/Gotti time empedocles Aug 2018 #31
Depends. Cohen was prosecuted by NY prosecutions office. The Bookkeeper testified at a grand Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #70
Uh-oh...Trump has to be alarmed by that one. MineralMan Aug 2018 #6
It is good the financial crimes come out first, so that RubleCons can hypocritically continue Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #12
Hmm? Maybe Mueller wants to take him down for finances first, and then Achilleaze Aug 2018 #16
Yep, the speed with this is breathtaking grantcart Aug 2018 #64
Trump won't just have to worry about Pecker.. HipChick Aug 2018 #7
Another big hit. dalton99a Aug 2018 #8
Perfect! Dyedinthewoolliberal Aug 2018 #32
What a cowinky dink huh? workinclasszero Aug 2018 #41
"Frankly it's sad. Very, very sad!" dalton99a Aug 2018 #46
" Tremendously sad" mecherosegarden Aug 2018 #80
lol.. ikr.. weirdest damn coincidence! Cha Aug 2018 #105
And the walls come Crumblin' Down....down...down... workinclasszero Aug 2018 #9
I was just going to post that exact video cungar2000 Aug 2018 #71
It fits perfect right? workinclasszero Aug 2018 #75
Let This Day Get Even Better! NickPeace Aug 2018 #10
Welcome to DU GusBob Aug 2018 #45
Thank You NickPeace Aug 2018 #48
CNN: Trump says longstanding legal practice of flipping 'almost ought to be illegal' Botany Aug 2018 #11
"Come on, Jeff, make it illegal. You can do it!" dalton99a Aug 2018 #15
I'm sure he thinks ANY testifying against him should be illegal. tclambert Aug 2018 #68
There are great quotes in the article whopis01 Aug 2018 #107
Money Laundering. MineralMan Aug 2018 #13
Oh baby oh baby OH. This is getting better by the day. Miles Archer Aug 2018 #14
That fine old Justice Dept tradition...follow the money... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #17
Yep. Numbers don't lie. dalton99a Aug 2018 #20
Next up: This is just like McCarthyism! gratuitous Aug 2018 #18
Like whoa uponit7771 Aug 2018 #19
My heartfelt "Thoughts and whomp, whomp" are headed trump*'s way Siwsan Aug 2018 #21
The rats know when it's time to bail JHB Aug 2018 #22
LOL! klook Aug 2018 #52
BOOM! SunSeeker Aug 2018 #23
It is really starting to look like ScratchCat Aug 2018 #24
Agreed. nt c-rational Aug 2018 #85
Whoa! Wow! irisblue Aug 2018 #25
Well that sure beats Pecker ! C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #28
"Trump is gonna flip" on whom? Duppers Aug 2018 #99
I meant he's gonna flip his lid... like freak out :-) C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #101
maybe don jr. will ask for immunity to 'rat' on daddy spanone Aug 2018 #29
honestly barbtries Aug 2018 #37
traitortrump doesn't have many wagons to circle empedocles Aug 2018 #30
I think he's not far from declaring war on Puerto Rico klook Aug 2018 #61
Ohhhh Sweet!!! FarPoint Aug 2018 #33
I love and live for "Fatal Friday".....n/t monmouth4 Aug 2018 #34
as they just pointed out on m$nbc...not only accountant, CFO of trumpworld spanone Aug 2018 #35
You still dislike msnbc? Duppers Aug 2018 #100
can be little doubt it seems to me barbtries Aug 2018 #36
Flipper jayschool2013 Aug 2018 #38
These multiple immunities mean they are really focusing in Trump himself. Kablooie Aug 2018 #39
Sure points in that direction. triron Aug 2018 #56
Wow.. this is getting real folks. honest.abe Aug 2018 #40
i had a weird dream, slept late, and woke up to THIS?!?? THIS NEWS?!?? Leghorn21 Aug 2018 #42
I'm with Robert Reich... annul the Trump Administration!!! TalenaGor Aug 2018 #43
OH YEAH BABY! manor321 Aug 2018 #44
End Game. The CFO will know the offshore accounts and the passwords. sarcasmo Aug 2018 #47
Mueller is brilliant. Nevilledog Aug 2018 #49
"That makes me smart." dchill Aug 2018 #50
I wonder if Sarah Smokey Eyes thbobby Aug 2018 #51
He's been with the Trumps since the seventies blogslut Aug 2018 #54
Trump.Org: soon to be sleeping with the fishes yonder Aug 2018 #55
He arranged for the Trump Organization to pay Michael Cohen a $35,000 SummerSnow Aug 2018 #57
When the rat is cornered, will the rat pardon himself? elmac Aug 2018 #58
And the dominos keep falling down. edbermac Aug 2018 #59
After this week, I was afraid today was going to be a let down. blaze Aug 2018 #60
Lol, on a practical note is he still working there? grantcart Aug 2018 #62
Icing on the top would be some new indictments today... HipChick Aug 2018 #63
WOW Gothmog Aug 2018 #65
No worries Dear Leader workinclasszero Aug 2018 #66
Trump's new mantra IncaRoads Aug 2018 #67
Oh, boy. n/t malthaussen Aug 2018 #69
God Damn flippers, should be against the law njhoneybadger Aug 2018 #72
And Donald has seen it and continues to see so many times. gordianot Aug 2018 #74
I would say there goes the farm, however..... gordianot Aug 2018 #73
We now take you live to the scene in Trump World. Different Drummer Aug 2018 #76
The hits keep coming! gademocrat7 Aug 2018 #77
That Sound You Just Heard........... ChoppinBroccoli Aug 2018 #78
Follow the money.. NastyRiffraff Aug 2018 #79
Who will be next to ask for immunity, Trump? :D C Moon Aug 2018 #81
Diaper Donnie done a bad, bad thing Blue Owl Aug 2018 #82
... Catherine Vincent Aug 2018 #83
Donnie can you feel it, Donnie can you feel it? mobeau69 Aug 2018 #84
Got up super early, worked, came home to this news. Solly Mack Aug 2018 #86
That one is gonna hurt. Blue_playwright Aug 2018 #87
How true... homegirl Aug 2018 #89
I'm lovin' it malaise Aug 2018 #90
Mueller goes for the pirize Loge23 Aug 2018 #91
Michael Cohen has already pled guilty. What good will their testimony Autumn Aug 2018 #92
When Michael Cohen credibility comes into play, they actually have receipts... HipChick Aug 2018 #93
Is this FBI, Mueller, related or is this on NY charges? Autumn Aug 2018 #94
Maybe their testimony is needed to indict people other than Cohen... Dopers_Greed Aug 2018 #95
We don't know what we don't yet.... HipChick Aug 2018 #96
God I hope it includes Frau Kushner too. Autumn Aug 2018 #97
Weissellberg: Domino #7 Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #98
May I point out that in the last mere seventy-two HOURS, we have Manafort's CONVICTIONS, Leghorn21 Aug 2018 #102
The Manhattan DA is considering pursuing charges against the Trump Organization... pecosbob Aug 2018 #103
Looks like Mueller's building the wall around Trump Az_lefty Aug 2018 #104
End game. This is it, folks. gristy Aug 2018 #106

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
88. Awesome! Weisselberg is our Friday Flipper!
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:59 PM
Aug 2018


Happy Friday everyone - this has been our best week in almost 2 years!

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. Lots of clunky noises coming out of Dirty Donny*s illegitimate republican White House
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:59 AM
Aug 2018


* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
26. The bookkeeper in The Untouchables
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:08 AM
Aug 2018

"You don't got the bookkeeper. You got nothing."

Well he does now.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
70. Depends. Cohen was prosecuted by NY prosecutions office. The Bookkeeper testified at a grand
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:28 PM
Aug 2018

jury under immunity which led to Cohen's indictment and guilty plea.

Were Trump's taxes revealed? Frankly do not think so.

Mueller not involved in this.

Sorry to say...


"Prosecutors in Manhattan, Mr. Lacovara said, “could seek permission from the deputy attorney general to do what we did in Watergate, which was to prepare a ‘road map’ of evidence bearing on the president’s culpability and send it to the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over impeachment.”

Both the Manhattan prosecutors handling the Cohen case and Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia, are bound by Justice Department policies banning the prosecution of sitting presidents."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/cohen-trump-indicted.html

MineralMan

(146,308 posts)
6. Uh-oh...Trump has to be alarmed by that one.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:01 AM
Aug 2018

It looks like the DOJ is narrowing in on financial misconduct and other issues and giving immunity to the evidence-holders. The potential of harm to Trump is high with this particular one, I'd think.

I'll bet they're looking at Trump's tax filings with regard to this.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
12. It is good the financial crimes come out first, so that RubleCons can hypocritically continue
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:04 AM
Aug 2018

... Republicons can continue to support him, laying bare their hypocrisy for all to see.

Keep those brands welded, folks!

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
16. Hmm? Maybe Mueller wants to take him down for finances first, and then
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:05 AM
Aug 2018

after that criminal shit is well rubbed into the faces of the Korrupt KGOP Kultists, then bring forward the really colossally evil-awful shit showing how the ignoble republican misleader* teamed up with the russian mob for MASSIVE TREASON against the USA?

Could be.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. And the walls come Crumblin' Down....down...down...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:02 AM
Aug 2018

OH shit! The long hidden tax returns about to see the light?!

I bet it's a direct line to many Russian mobsters.



Some people ain't no damn good
 

NickPeace

(82 posts)
48. Thank You
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:27 AM
Aug 2018

DU is a fast moving, fact-filled source of info., and always interesting! I’m am humbled by the posters here, they have skills I can only dream of. Again, thank you for your welcome message. 😊

Botany

(70,504 posts)
11. CNN: Trump says longstanding legal practice of flipping 'almost ought to be illegal'
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:03 AM
Aug 2018

CNN: Trump says longstanding legal practice of flipping 'almost ought to be illegal'

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/trump-flipping-outlawed/index.html

Good God in Butter!

The Orange A-hole should be going nuts

tclambert

(11,086 posts)
68. I'm sure he thinks ANY testifying against him should be illegal.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:08 PM
Aug 2018

After all, he makes everybody sign a non-disclosure agreement. So he thinks that means they shouldn't be able to testify against him, even though crime is like the number one reason to void an NDA.

whopis01

(3,514 posts)
107. There are great quotes in the article
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 08:21 AM
Aug 2018
"I know all about flipping, 30, 40 years I have been watching flippers. Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go."


Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail.

Seriously? No acknowledgment that there is anything illegal leading to these jail sentences. Just everything is wonderful.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
14. Oh baby oh baby OH. This is getting better by the day.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:05 AM
Aug 2018
Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was recently granted legal immunity in exchange for his testimony in front of a grand jury as part of the probe of former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Weisselberg “was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Michael Cohen in the criminal investigation into hush-money payments for two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.”


Cohen this week pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges, including making illegal campaign contributions to President Donald Trump’s campaign that were used to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in exchange for their silence about affairs they’d had with the president.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/bombshell-trumps-financial-gatekeeper-just-granted-legal-immunity-cohen-probe/

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
18. Next up: This is just like McCarthyism!
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:05 AM
Aug 2018

Look for this whining bleat of an excuse coming soon to a Fox show near you.

ScratchCat

(1,990 posts)
24. It is really starting to look like
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:07 AM
Aug 2018

That "Helsinki" was the last straw with those behind the scenes. Its almost like someone decided Trump had to go, and go as fast as possible.

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
99. "Trump is gonna flip" on whom?
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 06:19 PM
Aug 2018

He's the top target.

U.S. courts cannot go after Putin. Well, they could but they're helpless with such a dictator.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
30. traitortrump doesn't have many wagons to circle
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:09 AM
Aug 2018

for his protection.

trump will use anything, absolutely anything, he can get his hands on, - to try and politically run roughshod over all this via November bull rush [to bury the tons of negatives against him].

klook

(12,155 posts)
61. I think he's not far from declaring war on Puerto Rico
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:00 PM
Aug 2018

as a "hostile foreign power" via a Tweet at 1:10 a.m. U.S. warplanes will drop payloads of flaming paper towel rolls on San Juan.

"They've tried so hard to make me look bad with all the fake hurricane news -- so unfair! Sad! Now they're gonna pay!!!"

spanone

(135,832 posts)
35. as they just pointed out on m$nbc...not only accountant, CFO of trumpworld
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:11 AM
Aug 2018

Chief Financial Officer!!!!

barbtries

(28,794 posts)
36. can be little doubt it seems to me
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:12 AM
Aug 2018

Mueller has got trump in his cross hairs. he's going straight to the top. i love it.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
39. These multiple immunities mean they are really focusing in Trump himself.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:17 AM
Aug 2018

They wouldn't ignore so many criminals unless there was a much, much bigger fish they were after.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
42. i had a weird dream, slept late, and woke up to THIS?!?? THIS NEWS?!??
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:23 AM
Aug 2018
Allen Weisselberg, C’MON DOWN!!






Nevilledog

(51,104 posts)
49. Mueller is brilliant.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:31 AM
Aug 2018

This grant of immunity is not coming from Mueller, it's coming from totally separate investigation by SDNY. Nice end around for Mueller to get info on Russian influence.

I am somewhat confused about why Cohen entered a plea that did not delineate either his cooperation or some type of agreement that no further charges would be brought. He's now in a situation of having prior felonies which can be used as enhancements.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
51. I wonder if Sarah Smokey Eyes
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:35 AM
Aug 2018

will have a press conference today. Would be beautiful if she does. It has been a great weak hasn't it friends?

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
57. He arranged for the Trump Organization to pay Michael Cohen a $35,000
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:51 AM
Aug 2018

monthly retainer fee for the hush money payments

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
58. When the rat is cornered, will the rat pardon himself?
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:52 AM
Aug 2018

and will the fascist supreme court back him up?

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
62. Lol, on a practical note is he still working there?
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:00 PM
Aug 2018

Given their "idiosyncratic" bookkeeping procedures the TO is going to have a practical challenge to simple keep operations going

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)
78. That Sound You Just Heard...........
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:56 PM
Aug 2018

..............was Trump's head exploding. Or possibly his colon.

Weisselberg knows where every dime of the Trump Crime Organization goes. If he testifies, Trump will die in prison.

Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)
86. Got up super early, worked, came home to this news.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:32 PM
Aug 2018

I was going to nap but I'll have to stop laughing first.

Blue_playwright

(1,568 posts)
87. That one is gonna hurt.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:54 PM
Aug 2018

He knows where ALL the skeletons are buried along with the pilfered family silver.

homegirl

(1,429 posts)
89. How true...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 04:20 PM
Aug 2018

Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

You don’t give Trump Org CFO Weisselberg & David Pecker immunity just to prosecute Michael Cohen.
8:04 AM - Aug 24, 2018


Loge23

(3,922 posts)
91. Mueller goes for the pirize
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 04:29 PM
Aug 2018

Mueller's tossing back Goliath Groupers and Mammoth Marlins.
He's strapped in for the Big One.
The Great Orange Whale is his prey.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
95. Maybe their testimony is needed to indict people other than Cohen...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 04:42 PM
Aug 2018

Like Beavis, Butthead, Kushner, and Herr Orange.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
98. Weissellberg: Domino #7
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 06:09 PM
Aug 2018

Last edited Fri Aug 24, 2018, 06:50 PM - Edit history (2)

Flynn
Gates
Pappadoupolos
Manafort
Cohen
Pecker
Weissellberg

You aren't granted immunity when you're not guilty of something. Weissellberg knows where the bodies are buried (figuratively speaking), and was probably intimately involved in all the shell companies, maybe tax evasion, illegal payments, who knows what else.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
102. May I point out that in the last mere seventy-two HOURS, we have Manafort's CONVICTIONS,
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 06:40 PM
Aug 2018

Cohen’s GUILTY PLEAS, Pecker and Howard IMMUNITY and now Weisselberg IMMUNITY?!?

I’m going to frame this thread and hang it on my wall, I tells ya!!!


pecosbob

(7,538 posts)
103. The Manhattan DA is considering pursuing charges against the Trump Organization...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:07 PM
Aug 2018

you can bet they'll get around to Weisselberg...and that one would be about Trump's taxes.

gristy

(10,667 posts)
106. End game. This is it, folks.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:31 PM
Aug 2018

We are past the end of the beginning. We are not officially in the beginning of the end.

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