According to a Wednesday New Yorker report, legal experts have noticed a detail in the indictment against Allen Weisselberg. He was the long-serving chief financial officer at the Trump Organization.
In July, Manhattan District Attorneys Office prosecuted Weisselberg as well as the Trump Organization. They alleged that there was a 15-year-old scheme to defraud tax authorities in order to compensate certain executives.
According to the New Yorker one of the many allegations is that Weisselberg erased portions of entries from a ledger called Donald J. Trumps Detail general Ledger during 2016's presidential campaign. These alleged entries are for tuition payments for Weisselberg's grandchildren.
According to the New Yorker people who are familiar with Trump's legal problems noticed one element in that allegation: The name of the ledger.
Tristan Snell, an ex-assistant attorney general in New York who worked on the Trump University case, said that my jaw dropped literally when I saw it.
It would be a blow to the idea that Trump didn't know there was a ledger. This means that Donald Trump had a set number of numbers.
He explained to the magazine that the publication's disclosure of the ledgers was Trump's message to him: We have your ledger.
He was an employee of the Trump family since 1970s. Both he and the company pleaded not guilty and Trump dismissed it all as a witch hunt.
Letitia James, New York's Attorney General, indicated this week that there are more charges likely to be brought in the midst of a long-running investigation into Trump's business empire.
This article was originally published on HuffPost. It has since been updated.
