The recent trial offered a preview of the damning evidence that ties Donald Trump directly to the crime.
at a private school for chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg’s grandkids. Add to that Weisselberg’s trial testimony, in which he remembered being in Trump’s office a decade ago when he promised to pay it back—a vow he fulfilled when he reimbursed the company by also lowering his taxed salary.
When asked by journalists, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office wouldn’t clarify what exactly Bragg meant by “the next chapter.” But former prosecutors who spent decades in that office say they’ve seen this before, and the natural next step is to finally go after the boss himself. “You start at the bottom and you work your way up,” said attorney John Moscow, who spent years at the Manhattan DA’s Office prosecuting complicated financial fraud investigations.
But as visibly frustrated as prosecutors were—nearly labeling McConney a hostile witness—they couldn’t simply turn the heat on him. That’s because they had built their criminal case against the Trump companies in part by having him testify before the grand jury that issued the indictment, a process that in New York oddlyabout anything they discuss during their testimony. McConney was safe the minute he became a witness, even if he had nothing useful to say at trial.
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