UWS Private School Subpoenaed In Case Against Trump: Report

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An Upper West Side private school is the latest legal battleground in a probe into the Trump Organization, according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal.

New York prosecutors subpoenaed Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School as they look into tuition payments the Trump Organization made — with checks signed by the former president — for a top employee's family, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The grandchildren of Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg attended the highly-ranked private school at 5 West 93rd St. from 2012 to 2019. It's also where more than $500,000 of the childrens' tuition payments were made with checks signed by either Weisselberg or Trump, according to Jennifer Weisselberg, the two children's mother, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

"Former prosecutors not involved in the probe said the Manhattan district attorney’s office could be examining whether the Weisselbergs evaded taxes with the tuition-payment arrangement," wrote Wall Street Journal reporter Corinne Ramey.

The probe into the checks could be part of a long effort to gain the cooperation of Weisselberg — a confidant to the former president and the financial gatekeeper of the Trump Organization — in a wider investigation into Trump and his namesake company, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The subpoena of Columbia Grammar is part of the investigation into Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

Jennifer Weisselberg told Manhattan prosecutors that she and her ex-husband Barry Weisselberg, who is Allen's son, understood the tuition payments to be part of Barry's compensation package at the Trump organization, where he formerly worked, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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