(Weisselberg and the company were charged with tax fraud in 2021 by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Barry was also reportedly present at meetings at Trump Tower in 2003 “for one of their periodic updates on their inherited empire” with the siblings and then-Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.īarry came under scrutiny after a 2018 New York Times report alleged that Trump family patriarch Fred Trump and his children orchestrated a tax scheme to inflate the family fortune and possibly evade taxes.īarry was a senior judge on the 3rd Circuit court when the report was published but had stopped actively hearing cases.įred Trump “often” consulted with Barry on legal matters during her time as a federal judge, the Times reported.
