Monday's proceedings had few sordid details. Prosecutors think they have some bombshell bank records instead.
Monday’s proceedings had few sordid details. Prosecutors think they have some bombshell bank records instead.
The documentary grunt work, however, was for a potentially crucial purpose. Prosecutors appear to be trying to check all the boxes that constitute the elements of the 34 felony charges Trump is facing, all of which turn on technical intricacies of New York’s business recordkeeping laws. For court watchers hoping for that level of drama, they’ll need to wait at least another day — or possibly much longer. Prosecutors revealed on Monday afternoon that they still have about
McConney testified that he was instructed to make the payments to Cohen at a brief meeting in 2016 with Trump’s then-CFO Allen Weisselberg. The controller said that while the payments were recorded as legal expenses pursuant to a “retainer agreement,” they did not go through the Trump Organization’s legal department as such payments typically did.
In later testimony, Tarasoff said she checked with McConney and Weisselberg on those invoices and confirmed that Cohen was due $35,000 each month. While prosecutors have seized on the categorization of the payments as “legal expenses” in Trump Organization bookkeeping records as a flagrant falsehood, McConney said under cross-examination that label was simply one of a limited number of choices in “a drop-down menu” in the dated computer system used by Trump’s finance personnel.
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