Former Trump executive Weisselberg gets five months in jail for perjury
Al Jazeera
Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty last month to charges he lied about former President Donald Trump’s finances.
A New York judge on Wednesday sentenced former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg to five months in prison for lying about former US President Donald Trump’s finances.
Judge Laurie Peterson handed down the sentence at a brief hearing in Manhattan criminal court. It came after Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of perjury in connection with a civil fraud lawsuit that New York state Attorney General Letitia James brought against Trump, Weisselberg and other executives at Trump’s family real estate company; James accused the company of inflating property values to mislead buyers and insurers.
The former executive admitted that he lied when he testified that he had little knowledge of how company realtors came to list Trump’s Manhattan penthouse on financial statements at nearly three times its actual size, manipulating the price.
Asked if he wanted to address the court on Wednesday, Weisselberg, wearing a black windbreaker and a face mask, responded, “No, your honour.” He was escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
