Jennifer Weisselberg said she was about to testify. However, hours after making her claims, two sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Daily Beast that Weisselberg had used the media focus on the case to bring attention to herself.
The Manhattan grand jury that will decide whether to indict former President Donald Trump finally heard from a key witness on Monday—his former fixer Michael Cohen—but perhaps more notable than who they heard from were the antics one potential witness took to make itJennifer Weisselberg, a one-time Trump family confidant embroiled in a bitter divorce, walked into the DA's office midday Monday and claimed to reporters staking out the grand jury that she was about to help prosecutors nail...
Weisselberg was actually at the DA’s office to testify before a separate grand jury totally unrelated to Trump concerning a personal matter, according to a person familiar with her situation. The media stunt casts doubt on her reliability as a witness and could prevent investigators from using her to testify in the future about alleged tax dodging at the Trump Organization, according to this person.
Prosecutors at this office, formally called the New York County District Attorney’s Office, have been investigating Trump since halfway through his presidency. That’s when details emerged that Trump had ordered Cohen to silence the porn star Stormy Daniels and keep thefrom running her story—paying hush money to conduct a dirty tactic called “catch-and-kill.”
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