"The Manhattan District Attorney’s attempts to flip former President Donald Trump’s loyal money man have officially failed, as the tax-dodging ex-chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg took a plea deal Thursday morning and won’t testify against his lifelong boss.
Instead, he’ll get what some might consider a sweetheart deal for a 75-year-old man who kept his lips shut and wouldn’t implicate his old boss: six months or less behind bars. His legal team expects him to realistically spend three months in prison, and he will face five years of probation after serving his sentence.
He will also have to pay back $1,994,321 in taxes he owed, prosecutors said in court.
In return, Weisselberg has also agreed to openly testify about the way the Trump Organization rewarded him with untaxed corporate perks for years in the form of expensive tuition payments for his grandkids at a top-tier Manhattan private school, a luxury car to use anytime he wished, and a fully-paid swanky apartment overlooking Central Park. His testimony could prove pivotal to convicting the corporation, which would be forced to pay fines and would reflect negatively on the Trump family company—not that it would make a difference politically to MAGA devotees."
Instead, he’ll get what some might consider a sweetheart deal for a 75-year-old man who kept his lips shut and wouldn’t implicate his old boss: six months or less behind bars. His legal team expects him to realistically spend three months in prison, and he will face five years of probation after serving his sentence.
He will also have to pay back $1,994,321 in taxes he owed, prosecutors said in court.
In return, Weisselberg has also agreed to openly testify about the way the Trump Organization rewarded him with untaxed corporate perks for years in the form of expensive tuition payments for his grandkids at a top-tier Manhattan private school, a luxury car to use anytime he wished, and a fully-paid swanky apartment overlooking Central Park. His testimony could prove pivotal to convicting the corporation, which would be forced to pay fines and would reflect negatively on the Trump family company—not that it would make a difference politically to MAGA devotees."
Trump’s Money Man Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty
Former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty on Thursday to a number of charges related to the Trump Org avoiding taxes.
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