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NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against the former president by New York’s attorney general.
Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of perjury in connection with the suit. He admitted lying when he testified he had little knowledge of how Trump’s Manhattan penthouse came to be valued on his financial statements at nearly three times its actual size.
Asked if he wanted to address the court on Wednesday, Weisselberg, wearing a black windbreaker and a face mask, responded, “No, your honor.” He was escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs following the brief sentencing, which lasted less than five minutes.
Weisselberg had already served 100 days last year for on charges that he avoided paying taxes on $1.7 million in company perks, including a rent-free Manhattan apartment and luxury cars. In that case, Weisselberg had agreed to testify in a case against the Trump Organization, but not against Trump himself.
Now they’ve hauled Weisselberg off to jail again, all over a discrepancy about the square footage of Trump Tower. But by going to jail, he won’t have to testify in Trump’s upcoming hush money trial.
The Hill reported:
In his July 17, 2020, deposition with the attorney general’s office, state lawyers questioned Weisselberg over the size of Trump’s Manhattan triplex apartment in Trump Tower. The property was listed on the former president’s financial statements as 30,000 square feet in size, but it is actually less than 11,000 square feet.
Weisselberg told state lawyers he “didn’t find out about the error” in the triplex’s listed size until Forbes reported it and that he was never present when Trump described the size of the property. He has now admitted that both remarks were untrue.
The inquiry into Weisselberg’s perjury was spurred by his October testimony in the civil fraud trial, in which he was also a defendant. Without pleading guilty to a specific charge, he admitted as part of his plea deal that he falsely testified he “never focused” on the triplex throughout the course of his work for the Trump Organization.
MSNBC noted that Weisselberg’s perjury sentencing comes just days before Trump’s “hush money” trial, and as part of the plea deal, Weisselberg will not be testifying in the hush money case.
WATCH: Former Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months for perjury. @lawofruby has the latest. pic.twitter.com/nTmF1UCOx3
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 10, 2024
BREAKING: Ex-Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying under oath in civil fraud case. https://t.co/cEoAFYizFD
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 10, 2024
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