Ex-Trump Finance Chief Weisselberg Jailed For Perjury
A New York State judge on Wednesday sentenced former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg to five months in jail for lying under oath in the attorney general's civil fraud case against Donald Trump and his business associates, imprisoning a close ally of the former president on the eve of his hush-money trial.
April 10, 2024, MSNBC, By Adam Reiss, Dareh Gregorian and Summer Concepcion
Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury last month in his testimony during former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial.
The sentencing matched Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's recommendation.
After Weisselberg's sentence was agreed upon by prosecutors and the defense, Judge Laurie Peterson asked him whether there was anything he would like to say.
Weisselberg replied, "No, your honor," and the judge handed down the sentence.
The hearing lasted only about two minutes.
Weisselberg was accused of committing perjury in a deposition and during testimony in Trump’s trial, including allegedly lying when he said in July 2020 that he learned Trump’s triplex apartment had been overvalued from a Forbes report, but really knew about it well beforehand, Bragg’s office said.
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