Key Figure in Trump's Business Pleads Guilty to Felony Perjury

[Uncle Joe]

Allen H. Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization finance chief, has already spent time at the Rikers Island jail complex. The perjury plea will send him back.

Allen H. Weisselberg, in handcuffs, is at the center of fraud allegations against Donald J. Trump, but has never testified against his former boss.Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

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The plea agreement with the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, comes weeks before the former president will stand trial on unrelated criminal charges. That case, also brought by Mr. Bragg, stems from a hush-money payment made on Mr. Trump’s behalf to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Mr. Weisselberg, who was led into the courtroom in handcuffs wearing a blue surgical mask and a dark suit, conceded that in recent years he had lied under oath to the New York attorney general’s office when it was investigating Mr. Trump for fraud. The attorney general, Letitia James, sued Mr. Trump in 2022, accusing him of wildly inflating his net worth to obtain favorable loans and other benefits.

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Although Mr. Weisselberg neither committed violence nor orchestrated an elaborate scheme, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors argued that perjury undermines the broader ends of justice and cannot be ignored.

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Mr. Weisselberg has been rewarded for his loyalty to the family he served for nearly a half century: When he left the company, the Trump Organization, last year, he was awarded a $2 million severance package that required him not to cooperate with any law enforcement investigation unless legally required.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/nyregion/weisselberg-guilty-trump-business.html

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What happens now...what kind of a sweetheart deal did he make this time? A 3 week paid vacation in the Hamptons?

The man needs to spend several years in one of NY States facilities of incarceration...preferably one in the furthest northern areas of the state