Ex-Trump CFO testimony ends after Forbes accuses him of perjury

The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg’s testimony ended abruptly on Thursday afternoon, hours after Forbes magazine accused the convicted tax cheat of perjuring himself, reports Adam Klasfeld of The Messenger.

Klasfeld reports, “Weisselberg insisted on Tuesday from the witness stand that he “never focused” on calculating the square footage of the former president’s Trump Tower triplex, a three-floor penthouse in his namesake skyscraper.

“Two days later, on Thursday, Forbes reported that emails not currently in the attorney general’s possession show otherwise.

“A source close to New York Attorney General Letitia James confirmed that her office is looking into the latest Forbes report.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.