Trump Org exec bursts into tears in trial witness box: reports
A co-defendant in Donald Trump's $250 million fraud lawsuit burst into tears on the witness stand Tuesday, according to reporters in the courtroom.
Jeffrey McConney became sentimental when asked about leaving the Trump Organization, according to New York Daily News' courts reporter Molly Crane-Newman.
"I got to do a lot of things that a normal accountant wouldn't be able to," McConney said, according to Crane-Newman.
She added the retired controller spoke nostalgically, and was "dabbing his eyes with a tissue."
Messenger reporter Adam Klasberg notes a court officer provided the tissue, and that both Judge Arthur Engoron and the attorney general's prosecutor asked McConney if he was okay.
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McConney is among several co-defendants named in Attorney General Letitia James' civil complaint that contends the Trump Organization inflated its value to defraud lenders and investors. Trump and his associates have already been found liable for fraud in a summary judgment, making the trial largely about deciding damages.
Trump and his co-defendants deny wrongdoing.