Nobody Knows the Trump Organization Like Allen Weisselberg

Since he won the Republican presidential nomination in July 2016, Donald Trump has weathered an amazing number of fiascoes that have threatened him and his various moneymaking concerns. But when news broke that Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of Trump’s namesake company, had received immunity in a federal investigation into the finances of the president’s longtime fixer, Michael Cohen, it rocked the family-run business in ways that two years of scandals hadn’t, say two people familiar with the company.

Weisselberg’s importance to the president eclipses his title. After more than 40 years serving the family, including Donald’s father, Fred, he’s the only person not named Trump whom the president trusts with his money. He’s negotiated Trump’s loans, is a co-signer on his accounts, helps arrange his taxes, and, with Trump’s sons Don Jr. and Eric, oversees the trust that holds all the president’s assets. He “knows of every dime that leaves the building,” Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie wrote of Weisselberg last year in a book about their time running Trump’s presidential campaign.