Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying
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Retired Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg received a five-month jail sentence for lying under oath during testimony in a lawsuit brought against Donald Trump by New York’s attorney general.

Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case.

Weisselberg, 76, is expected to be sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to two counts of perjury. The ex-chief financial officer admitted lying when he testified he had little knowledge of how Trump’s Manhattan penthouse came to be valued on his financial statements at nearly three times its actual size.

It will be his second time behind bars. He served 100 days last year for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company perks, including a rent-free Manhattan apartment and luxury cars.

Now, he’s again trading life as a Florida retiree for another stay at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      43·
      7 months ago

      Which keeps happening, while Trump himself evades it every time.

      And yet these idiots keep going to prison to protect him anyway.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I mean, the first time was more or less going to jail for his own greed (dodging taxes on perks he benefitted from). They’re all fucking criminals, regardless. I doubt Trump had to coax this guy at all to break the law.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      63·
      7 months ago

      Don’t say he went to jail for Donald Trump.

      Say that he went to jail for being a crook and a tax cheat.

      There are plenty of folks like him who need to be afraid of the penalties for not paying taxes.

      Don’t let them think they are safe because they don’t know Donnie.

  • Zacryon@lemmy.wtf
    81·
    7 months ago

    But don’t you dare to download a movie from some shady website! smh