An accountant who started his career working for Mr. Trumps daddy nearly a half-century ago, Mr. Weisselberg has actually served as the Trump Organizations monetary gatekeeper for more than two decades and recently ran the company with Mr. Trumps adult children while Mr. Trump was in the White House.Famously hard-working– he once stated he took “no getaways”– Mr. Weisselberg got an exceptional view into the inner workings of the company and its bare-knuckled brawls with company partners. If he eventually pleads guilty and strikes an offer, he could do significant damage to Mr. Trump, who for decades has actually depended on his unflinching commitment, when declaring with “100 percent” certainty that Mr. Weisselberg had not betrayed him.The 2 started working together carefully in the late 1970s, with Mr. Weisselberg putting in time on weekends and nights to deal with tasks for Mr. Trump, the enthusiastic child of his manager, Fred Trump. Mr. Weisselberg stated in a 2015 deposition that he had actually been assisting with Mr. Trumps tax returns since at least the 1990s, when Mr. Trump made him the organizations chief financial officer.Mr.