The attorney, Duncan Levin, said in an interview that he was hired to conduct an analysis of the reams of documents Weisselberg has, which include Trump Organization financial records and show how intertwined the company is with the Weisselberg family's finances.
"We're basically culling through it methodically, and we will turn over documents and information to law enforcement as is helpful," Levin said.
Weisselberg has been speaking with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the New York attorney general's office as they investigate the finances of both Trump and the Trump Organization. The offices appear to be running parallel investigations into whether the former president and his company misrepresented the values of properties and other assets in order to pay less in taxes and procure favorable loan terms.
Levin, a former top official in Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office, is determining which documents might be relevant for the investigations before handing them over.
"She has joint-bank-account information, credit cards, tax records, tax returns - that's the meat of what we're looking at to see what types of patterns we might be able to find," Levin said.
Trump has disparaged the investigations and called them politically motivated. Allen Weisselberg's attorney has declined to comment on his role in the investigations.
Jennifer Weisselberg's lawyer is an expert in financial fraud
"They picked up documents many times. They ended up taking seven boxes of my documents and scanning them, going through them," she said, adding that "they took depositions, they took checks, routing numbers, bank-account" information, and other records.
Vance's investigation in particular appears to be heating up. Shortly after Trump left office, Vance hired Mark Pomerantz, a seasoned prosecutor of white-collar crimes and mob bosses, to help with the investigation. Pomerantz has interviewed Jennifer Weisselberg several times, she told Insider. And Vance is widely expected to bring indictments before he leaves office at the end of this year.
"It was my distinct impression that things are heating up and that this investigation is of intense focus for prosecutors at the DA's office," Levin said. "They are staffed up and ramped up to investigate every aspect of this that they can."
Levin, now a partner with his firm Tucker Levin PLLC, worked as the head of the asset-forfeiture division for Vance between 2011 and 2014. Before that, he held positions as a prosecutor at the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and in private practice with Vance, along with an earlier stint at the Manhattan DA's office under Vance's predecessor, Robert Morgenthau.
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Levin said he and a forensic accountant were sorting through the remaining documents in Weisselberg's possession.
"I've been building complex financial-fraud cases for 20 years now," Levin said. "I have been in close contact with the prosecutors' offices. We have indicated to them that we are going through these documents in a very sophisticated way."
"I can't comment on any specific documents that may or may not belong to the Trump Organization, but I can say that the source of funds for their lifestyle was largely from the Trump Organization," Levin said.
"They want you to do crimes and not talk about it and don't leave," she said. "It's so controlling."
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