- Longtime Trump CFO got a five month sentence
- He worked for family firm for 50 years including under Trump’s father, Fred Trump
- His return to prison follows perjury guilty plea
A judge has handed the Trump Organization’s longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg a five month sentence for what will be his second stint on Riker Islands.
The usually dapper Florida retiree turned up in court in comfortable sweats, having ditched his sharp suits.
It comes after Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty to perjury over statements related to Trump’s New York civil fraud trial.
The loyal Trump executive, who worked for the family for 50 years, was last month convicted of lying under oath.
He had told the court he didn’t know how Trump’s Manhattan penthouse ended up being listed as three times its actual size in the company’s financial statements.
At the end of the hearing Weisselberg was handcuffed and taken away as District Attorney Alvin Bragg looked on.
He will be sent to the North Infirmary Command on Rikers Island which includes inmates with serious medical conditions.
Instead of his usual smart attire Weisselberg was dressed in an olive-colored North Face jacket and sneakers.
The offenses for which he was charged carried prison terms of up to seven years, according to the plea document.
Weisselberg was jailed less than a week before Trump is due to go on trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments to hide a sex scandal involving porn star Stormy Daniels.
The penthouse was a key piece of evidence in the Trump civil fraud case.
Trump valued the penthouse apartment on financial statements as being 30,000 square feet. But internal documents put its actual footage at 10,996 square feet.
When Forbes published an article taking on the size of the apartment, Trump’s financial statements dropped the value from $327 million to $117 million.
Weisselberg will now go through his second stint behind bars, but could be eligible for release in three months for good behavior.
