The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump’s money. Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization’s receipts.
The House intelligence community intends to call the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer to testify, The Daily Beast has learned.
Allen Weisselberg received renewed congressional attention after disgraced Trump fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday repeatedly mentioned the Trump Org CFO as crucial to various aspects of dubiously legal practices by the president, from the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments to potential insurance fraud.
“The Committee anticipates bringing in Mr. Weisselberg,” a Democratic committee aide told The Daily Beast.
Cohen, in marathon testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, didn’t directly tie Weisselberg to the Trump camp’s interactions with Russia, the central preoccupation of the House intelligence committee.
But Weisselberg is uniquely positioned to address questions about financial transactions or relationships that concern potential foreign leverage over Trump – which new intelligence committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has indicated for months that he intends to investigate. Trump famously called any effort from Special Counsel Robert Mueller to look into his finances a “red line” that would trigger Mueller’s firing, and Schiff has stepped into the gap.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump moneyman Allen Weisselberg is about to be hauled in front of the House intelligence committee. https://t.co/88fXCoRLIv
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) February 28, 2019
An open hearing with Weisselberg would be something else
1. Republicans couldn't question his credibility since he hasn't been charged with a crime
2. He couldn't claim executive privilege or lawyer/client privilege
3. He could plead 5th but that would cause him/Trump problems https://t.co/iZXQuo3cYJ— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 28, 2019
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