Allen Weisselberg is having a no good, very bad, horrible day
All that Allen Weisselberg had to do was cooperate with New York prosecutors, and he and his sons probably could have gone free for their decades of financial crimes. Instead Weisselberg turned down his get out of jail free card in favor of trying to protect Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. It’s not going well for him.
Weisselberg turned himself in this morning. He was arrested, and now as we speak he’s being led into a court room in handcuffs for all the world to see. Maybe it’s standard procedure, maybe it’s not. But there’s something on point about an elderly accountant being paraded around in handcuffs because he hasn’t (yet) been willing to testify against his boss.
And of course this is just the beginning. Allen Weisselberg is about to find out what the initial criminal charges are against him when he sees his own indictment, which NBC says includes $1.7 million in tax fraud. The separate indictment against the Trump Organization could point to additional criminal charges that Weisselberg and his kids will end up facing in superseding indictments.
We don’t have any way of knowing whether New York prosecutors are still willing to give Allen Weisselberg and his sons immunity in exchange for flipping on Donald Trump. But we do know that if he keeps dragging this out, his leverage will drop. Weisselberg now has to decide whether he and his family will be destroyed, or whether Donald Trump and his family will be destroyed. As the days go on, it’ll keep getting harder for Weisselberg to stand by his current position of refusing to flip.
