Trump CFO given immunity

NEW YORK: Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to the Trump Organisation’s chief financial officer in an investigation involving US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, sources say.

The immunity deal for Allen Weisselberg was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which also said he was called to testify before a federal grand jury earlier this year.

Weisselberg was given immunity months ago, a source told Reuters, declining to give further details.

A cooperation deal between Weisselberg and prosecutors could be damaging to the president given the CFO’s longtime role in Trump’s business affairs. Weisselberg has worked for the Trump family for more than four decades and is one of the people to whom Trump entrusted his business before taking office.

Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump, said he did not know what Weisselberg had been questioned about but Trump’s legal team had been through his business dealings and found nothing that could threaten the president.

‘‘I know what he knows and none of it is of concern to us.’’

Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, which has been leading the Cohen probe, declined to comment, as did the White House. The Trump Organisation did not respond to a request for comment. — Reuters