The guilty plea of Alan Weisselberg, former CFO of The Trump Organization, raises all kinds of questions.

Did the District Attorney accept a too-lenient guilty plea deal, especially given the defendant’s own significant financial crimes? Was Weisselberg honestly unable to factually implicate Donald Trump individually, as Weisselberg and his lawyers apparently maintained to the District Attorney? Or did he simply choose not to? Did Trump basically “authorize” Weisselberg to testify against the Trump Organization, as long as he hunkered down and kept his mouth shut regarding the ex-president individually?

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