Longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail

[Scott]

 

Allen Weisselberg, one of former President Donald Trump's most trusted and loyal employees, was escorted out of court in handcuffs Tuesday after being sentenced to five months in jail for evading more than $1.7 million in taxes on unreported income in the form of company-provided perks that included the rent on his Manhattan apartment, the leases on cars for himself and his wife and tuition for his grandchildren.

Weisselberg, 75, was sentenced to five months on Rikers Island, New York City's notorious jail complex, followed by five years' probation, after he pleaded guilty in August to orchestrating a 15-year tax scheme while working at the Trump Organization as chief financial officer.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-trump-organization-cfo-allen-weisselberg-sentenced-tuesday/story?id=96321922

[Tug]

Far to short ,if any normal person did this even on a small scale it would be years in the fed system far to short Imo (unless there’s a lot we don’t know about)a small bird comes to mind……tweet tweet!

[stevenl]

Very good analysis here.

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-justice-system-is-broken-just

[ozimoron]

Donald Trump on Friday will learn how the company that bears the former U.S. president's name will be punished after being found guilty of scheming to defraud tax authorities for 15 years.

 

A New York state judge will impose the sentence after jurors in Manhattan found two Trump Organization affiliates guilty of 17 criminal charges last month.

 

The sentencing comes three days after Justice Juan Merchan of the Manhattan criminal court ordered Allen Weisselberg, who worked for Trump's family for a half-century and was the company's former chief financial officer, to jail for five months after he testified as the prosecution's star witness.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/donald-trumps-company-be-sentenced-15-year-tax-fraud-2023-01-13/