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Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg, 76, was sentenced to 5 months in Rikers Island jail on Wednesday for mendacity beneath oath about Trump's penthouse.
Solely Trump supporters go to jail for perjury.
Democrats commit perjury on a regular basis and so they by no means go to jail.
Prosecutors mentioned Weisselberg gave false testimony in regards to the measurement of one among Trump's penthouses in New York Metropolis throughout testimony within the civil fraud case.
CBS Information reported:
Lower than a yr after being launched from jail, the Trump Group's former chief monetary officer Allen Weisselberg is headed again to jail.
Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to 5 months within the Rikers Island jail advanced in New York Metropolis, in step with a deal he reached with prosecutors on perjury costs in a 2023 civil fraud case.
Weisselberg pleaded responsible in March to 2 felony counts of perjury. The Manhattan District Lawyer's Workplace mentioned he admitted to giving false testimony concerning the scale of former President Donald Trump's triplex condo in New York throughout a deposition in July.
Prosecutors initially charged Weisselberg with three extra counts of perjury, however his plea deal allowed him to keep away from pleading responsible to these costs.
A kind of preliminary counts was associated to perjury in an investigative deposition dated Might 12, 2023. The opposite two circumstances stem from Weisselberg's October 10, 2023 testimony in his civil fraud trial, which discovered him and longtime former boss Donald Trump liable on fraud and different associated costs.
That is the second time Weisselberg will serve time at Rikers.
In August 2022, Allen Weisselberg pleaded responsible to fifteen tax crimes felonies in alternate for a diminished sentence in a plea settlement with prosecutors.
The plea deal additionally required that Mr. Weisselberg testify as a witness when the case went to trial.
Choose Juan Merchan, the identical extremist choose who was overseeing Trump's Stormy Daniels 'hush cash' trial, had earlier sentenced Weisselberg to 5 months in Rikers Island jail.
The case concerned tax-related conduct, amid claims that Trump Group workers illegally 'acquired tax-exempt perks akin to flats and automotive leases.'
Some of these circumstances are nearly by no means prosecuted, however the witch-hunt of Trump and everybody related to him by no means ends.