Former financial director of Trump family company sentenced to five months in prison

Allen Weisselbergformer financial director of Trump Organization who already served a prison sentence for tax fraud, returned to prison this Wednesday after being sentenced to five months for lying as part of the recent civil trial of donald trump also for tax fraud.

Weisselberg76 years old, was director financial former president’s real estate and entertainment group trump between 2005 and 2021.

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The one who was the right hand of trump was already in chain for tax fraud after being condemned in 2022, in a case that also affected the economic empire of the former US president.

FOR In early March, Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury during his 2020 interrogation in the pretrial phase of his fraud trial. for O company familiar of the trump.

Arriving at court without making a statement, according to an AFP photographer present at the scene, the septuagenarian heard the sentence pronounced by a judge and was immediately handcuffed before being sent away. for O chain.

His sentence is known when there is less than a week to go. trump He sits on the bench to respond to accusations of covering up the payment to buy the silence of a former porn actress in the final stretch of the 2016 election campaign, for an old extramarital relationship from 2006 that he has always denied.

trumpthe first former president to be criminally tried in history, is accused of paying US$130,000 for the former actress Stormy Daniels as legal expenses of the trump Organization.

If found guilty, it may be condemned for O chainin full campaign for the presidential elections in November, in which he will face the current president Joe Biden.

Weisselberg admitted to lying during the previous civil trial about the value of the luxurious penthouse that the Republican billionaire owns in trump Tower, on the prestigious 5th Avenue in Manhattan, downtown Central Park.

The crimes he was charged with carry prison sentences of up to seven years, according to the plea document.

Prosecutors also agreed not to bring new charges against Weisselberg related to your time at the Organization trump.

On February 16, trump it was condemned for pay a fine of 355 million dollars –for totaling more than 100 million in interest – after being declared responsible for fraudulently manipulating the value of his properties to obtain favorable terms on loans and insurance.

trumpprominent real estate developer and businessman in New York Before entering politics, he had to deposit 175 million dollars in a bond court while the appeal of the decision was resolved.

Source: Elcomercio

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