A note on Donald Trump’s personal ledger was removed before his company turned over a copy to a grand jury investigating the Trump Organization for fraud, a company executive acknowledged in court Thursday.
The revelation came during the third day of sworn testimony by Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney, whose appearance in the company’s New York criminal fraud trial was stalled for more than a week after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 1.
McConney was shown a page of Trump’s ledger — an accounting of expenses paid from Trump’s personal coffers — provided to prosecutors by accounting firm Mazars USA. Beneath a ledger entry for a 2012 payment of more than $30,000 to a private school appears the phrase “per Allen Weisselberg,” referring to the company’s former chief financial officer who in August entered a guilty plea to fraud and tax evasion.
McConney was then…
