Five months of hardship for former Trump Organization CFO convicted of perjury

Historic former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg returned to prison Wednesday after serving a five-month sentence for making false statements during the recent civil financial fraud trial against his former boss Donald Trump. He has already spent months behind bars for tax fraud after being convicted in 2022 in a case that also targeted the former US president’s economic empire.

A staunch supporter of Donald Trump, he was forced to plead guilty again in early March, this time to perjury, following a massive civil trial over the inflated value of Trump Organization real estate assets. Arriving in court without making any statements, according to an AFP photographer, the septuagenarian man listened to the judge’s sentence and was immediately handcuffed and taken into custody.

His sentencing came five days before the scheduled opening of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York courts related to concealing payments to buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump. Trump in 2006, while he was married to his current wife, Melania Trump. Donald Trump has always denied his relationship with Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. The $130,000 payment came in the final stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, which the Republican billionaire won.

Weisselberg lied about the cost of his personal Trump Tower triplex

Donald Trump is set to stand trial on charges of falsifying Trump Organization business records to conceal these payments. He faces prison time if convicted amid the campaign for the 2024 presidential election, which he hopes to defeat Joe Biden.

Allen Weisselberg admitted that during a previous civil trial he lied about the value of the Republican billionaire’s real estate, in this case his personal triplex located in Trump Tower in New York.

In this case, the former US President was sentenced on February 16 in civil court by the Supreme Court of the State of New York to a fine of $355 million (plus about one hundred million dollars in interest) for financial fraud. for illegally inflating the value of their real estate in order to obtain better credit and insurance conditions. He appealed the verdict, but was forced to make a $175 million guarantee to American justice.