Jennifer and Barry Weisselberg’s divorce was a contentious battle, but few realized during the 2017 and 2018 proceedings that it would end up at the center of one of the most high-profile criminal investigations in history – the Manhattan District Attorney’s probe into Donald Trump.
Barry is a Trump Organization employee and his father, Allen, is the company’s chief financial officer. Jennifer says the divorce proceedings left her with “boxes and boxes” of files that prosecutors are interested in.
To help sort through the financial documents, which go back decades, Jennifer said she hired an attorney who previously prosecuted white collar and organized crime cases for the Manhattan DA and a former criminal investigator for the IRS.
On April 7, a New York grand jury subpoenaed materials related to her ex-husband and his family, nearly all of which Jennifer had as a result of their divorce. Jennifer’s attorney, Duncan Levin, said that even before the subpoena, she had provided some documents to investigators.
“Jennifer is extremely committed to working with investigators and giving over anything that is relevant,” Levin said. “We are continuing to go through documents in our possession to see if they would be helpful to prosecutors and investigators, and remain in close contact with their offices as we continue to sift through the materials we have,” Levin said.
In a series of conversations with CBS News, Jennifer described her interviews with investigators, and also shared previous claims of domestic abuse she made against Barry as part of a petition for a temporary restraining order in 2020 – allegations he has previously denied.
While investigators initially asked her about gifts and apparent job perks that she and her husband allegedly received while they were married – including living rent free in a valuable Trump Organization-owned apartment – she said investigators are increasingly interested in her ex-husband’s father.
“The first meeting was about anything I received (from the Trump Organization) any role I had, Barry, Barry, Barry, and then immediately when Mark Pomerantz was brought in, it went right to Allen. The whole thing is about Allen,” she said.
Pomerantz, a former federal prosecutor with experience in financial cases, was hired by the DA in February to work on the Trump investigation.
Barry and two attorneys for the Trump Organization did not…
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