| Trump Org Trial
Halted for 6 Days After SVP
McConney Test COVID +, Other
Cases Call
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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FOLEY SQUARE, Nov
1 – On opening day of the
Trump Organization trial,
controller Jeffrey McConney
was on the witness stand.
Inner City Press went and live
tweeted here
and below.
On November
1, the trial was halted until
November 7 after McConney
tested positive for COVID-19.
Inner City Press left
courtroom 1530 once it was
empty and found, on the other
side of the 15th floor, a
horific child sexual abuse
jury trial before Judge Robert
Mandelbaum. More on this to
follow.
From October 31:
OK - now in Trump Org trial as
questioning turns to 2007
O'Brien case, to witness doing
Trump world payroll processing
for decades. Q: Would
you say that gross payroll is
pre-tax and net payroll is
post-tax?
A: Yes...
Q: Are you
familiar with tax withholding
and was it your job to ensure
withholdings were appropriate?
A: That was up to
PayChex.
Q: But you input
the info, right? A: I did.
Q: What is the
difference between W2s and
1099s?
A: W2 withholds
taxes, 1099 doesn't. W2 is for
an employee, 1099 for an
independent contractor.
Q: Was it part of
your job for the Trump
Organization to make sure its
W2s were correct? A: Yes.
Q: I'm going to
show you a thumb drive. Do you
recognize it?
Jeffrey McConney:
The handwriting on it,
yes.
Counsel: I'm
going to read this stipulation
about... spreadsheets,
business records. "The people
have agreed to remove the
first names of Trump
children."
Defense:
Objection! On relevance.
Sidebar is called - then 10
minute break.
With jury
out of courtroom (and witness
too, through the same door up
in the front of the
courtroom), the argument about
relevance is not at sidebar,
but open.
Counsel: These
are Trump Corporation general
ledgers and they do contain
many transactions...
Counsel:
These records go to how
camouflaged these transactions
were. Judge: The
objection is noted and
overruled. Now a real
break: Judge leaves the bench,
some in gallery go out.
Judge is
back. He says, Usually I try
to go straight through the
afternoon, but I notice that
several of the jurors were
looking a little tired.
[Inner City
Press: generic testimony about
W2s and 1099s can to that.]
Jury entering!
Q: Mr.
McConney, did you notice on
the thumb drive there are
files, then A or B that is a
PDF of an Excel spreadsheet?
McConney: Yes.
Q: Let's
look at TO-18, a general
ledger produced by the Trump
Organization to the grand
jury. Do you recognize DANY
#'s? A: Yes
Q: Let's
turn to TO-43 - a payroll run
for Allen Weisselberg,
correct? McConney: Yes.
(Coughs). Q: And this was a
$100,000 payment to Allen
Weisselberg on January 1, 2016
as part of his bonus for the
previous year? McConney:
Right.
Q: And are
these W2s from Trump Payroll
to Allen and Barry Weisellberg
from 2005 and 2020? McConney:
Let me see. (Counts each name,
each name). Yes.
Q: And do you
remember the original
question? McConney: No. [Some
jurors laugh seemingly
sympathetically]
Judge: OK, I'm
going to call it a day. Don't
read anything about the case,
jurors. Don't receive any
payment about the trial. Do
not communicate or Google
about the case
[Extra:
afterward, Inner City Press
stopped in 1st floor
courtroom, two tweets on three
cases here
Defendant getting
conditional discharge as long
as he doesn't go (return) to
NY Punlic Library on 5th Ave.
RoR on Brooklyn
warrants. Next defendant
is in a skeleton shirt, for
Halloween presumably...
Skeleton man,
after three previous arrests
for robbery, 4 open cases,
stole from Nordstrom. Judge is
asking about open warrants.
Defendant is handcuffed behind
his back with winter parka
half off. Halloween evening
nears, the sun sets before 6
pm, soon 5 pm...
Earlier the jury
was selected in the New York
criminal case about the Trump
organization(s). Inner City
Press live tweeted on October
25, here:
Prospective juror
Ms. Coolibaly is asked if she
take fairly listen to
cooperator Weisselberg.
She says
yes.
Ms. Coolibaly is
asked if her mother working in
Accounts Receivable will be a
problem. Seems not.
Next up: an
adjunct at NYU, in "advanced
archival" -- No conflicts
seen.
Next man says he
likes to write political
criticism. Uh oh
Prospective
juror: It's not that I have a
problem with propaganda. I
just need to know what it is.
I am interested in income
disparities, some people pay
different interest rates...
"what happened in 2008, what
the Federal government did for
some and not
others"
Con't: "I lived
in a dictatorship for a
while... When I lost my
freedom overseas, I saw you
don't have any type of
protection. The system needs
work."
Counsel:
"Thank you for those
remarks... Could you be fair?"
A: I wouldn't
bring my idealism to
this.
Prosecutor:
The defendants here are
corporations, but it must be
beyond a reasonable doubt. Can
you hold us to that standard?
Can you call it like you see
it?
Last juror in
(this) pool: Yes I could do
it.
Centre street
video here.
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