The news that former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is preparing to plead guilty to financial crimes likely represents another step in the winding down of the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the Trump business activities, though the former president now faces legal troubles in several other jurisdictions, white-collar experts said Tuesday.
The New York Times was first to report Weisselberg’s progress toward a plea deal, which reportedly does not involve cooperating with prosecutors on the Trump investigation. The deal would leave the Trump Organization itself, which has been charged with criminal tax fraud and other offenses, as the only remaining defendant in the case. Former President Donald Trump was never charged in the matter.
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