Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.
Weisselberg testified before a federal grand jury earlier this year as prosecutors investigated Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer.
Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations relating to the hush-money payments provided to women who alleged affairs with Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Weisselberg has served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer for the Trump Organization. He has controlled the company’s financial assets with the president’s two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump since Trump took office.
Weisselberg is the second ally of Trump in two days to reportedly receive immunity in the Cohen probe.
David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity on Thursday.
Pecker met with prosecutors to discuss Cohen’s arrangement of nondisclosure payments to two women — adult-film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal — who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
The Enquirer reportedly paid McDougal $150,000 for a story about the alleged affair in 2006, but never published it.