One person likely to be of particular interest to federal prosecutors is Trump Organization C.F.O. Allen Weisselberg, who has been with the company since the Fred Trump days. Back in June, Weisselberg was subpoenaed to have a chat with the Southern District of New York, a situation that presumably made the president a bit jumpy, given that the C.F.O., who’s been described as “the most senior person in the organization that’s not a Trump,” has overseen many of his boss’s personal financial dealings; has prepared Trump’s tax returns at least through the financial crisis; and is the one guy who knows where all the bodies are buried. In addition, prosecutors say, Weisselberg was the one who arranged for the Trump Organization to reimburse Cohen for the $130,000 he laid out to silence Stormy Daniels. (Per the Times, “not only did the Trump Organization repay those expenses, but it agreed to pay taxes Mr. Cohen might have incurred on the reimbursements . . . [a] decision to ‘gross up’ Mr. Cohen [that] went against the Trump Organization’s typical reimbursement practices.”) According to Cohen, Weisselberg was involved in discussions about how to pay Daniels, and in a conversation recorded during the campaign, the fixer told Trump he’d “spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up,” referring to a plan to buy the right to Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story from American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer.

Perhaps most crucially, Weisselberg, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors over the summer for his grand-jury testimony about actions taken by Cohen. At present, Weisselberg is one of three people tasked with running the Trump Organization for however long the Trump presidency lasts (the other two are Don Jr. and Eric Trump). In October, The Wall Street Journal reported that in February 2018, Trump the Elder had tasked Cohen, Eric, and an outside lawyer with obtaining a restraining order against Daniels. A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not respond to the Times’s request for comment. Lawyers for Weisselberg and Cohen, and federal prosecutors in Manhattan, declined to comment.

Even more likely to get Trump all riled up? The fact that, as a person briefed on proceedings told the Times, the president himself could face charges for his role in the hush-money payments, which Cohen claims he was fully apprised of. On the other hand, officials more or less agree that a sitting president can’t be indicted, meaning that if Trump is re-elected in 2020, he’s home free (the statute of limitations on a campaign-finance violation likely expires in 2022).

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