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1 verified report published on July 14, 2021.
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July 14 wasn’t the day the Trump Organization got hit with new charges, but it was a day when the consequences of the July 1 indictment stayed loud and visible. The company’s attempts to move fast and limit the blast radius only made the underlying problem look worse: a family business whose longtime financial gatekeeper had become a legal liability. If this was supposed to look like damage control, it mostly looked like a company bracing for more damage. In Trump world, that usually means the bad news is just getting started.
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After the July 1 indictment of Allen Weisselberg and Trump-related corporate entities, filings and reporting in mid-July showed the longtime finance chief had been removed from officer or director roles in multiple subsidiaries. The move did not change the charges, but it did show the company was separating him from more of the corporate structure.