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NEW YORK — A longtime executive at Donald Trump’s company was sentenced to five months in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to lying under oath in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into business practices at the Trump Organization and at the trial that resulted from it.

Allen Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family for a half-century before retiring recently, was taken into custody after a brief proceeding in New York Supreme Court and is expected to serve his sentence at Rikers Island, the city’s sprawling jail complex near LaGuardia Airport.

It was not clear whether Weisselberg will be called as a witness at Trump’s criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday in New York. His plea agreement does not require him to cooperate with the Manhattan district attorney in that case.

Weisselberg’s lawyer, Seth L. Rosenberg, said in a statement Wednesday, “Allen Weisselberg accepted responsibility for his conduct and now looks forward to the end of this life-altering experience and to returning to his family and his retirement.”

Weisselberg, 76, now a Florida resident, pleaded guilty on March 4 to several counts of perjury for lying in sworn testimony both before and during the Trump Organization civil fraud trial in the case brought last year by New York Attorney General Letitia James. He has been embroiled in Trump’s legal issues for years because he was a key figure at the former president’s namesake company for decades.

He lied about his involvement in Trump’s annual financial statements, which were used to deceive lenders and insurance companies by convincing them that Trump was worth up to $2.2 billion more than he actually was during the years 2011-2021. Weisselberg also lied about his knowledge that Trump’s Fifth Avenue penthouse was really 11,000 square feet when Trump and his company were claiming it was three times that and valuing it accordingly.

In 2023, Weisselberg served about three months of a five-month sentence related to a separate criminal tax fraud case involving the company. The Trump Organization was convicted at that trial and fined $1.6 million, the maximum allowed by law.

Weisselberg <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/18/weisselberg-trump-guilty-plea/" target=_blank>pleaded guilty to more than a dozen felonies</a>, including criminal tax fraud and grand larceny.

In that trial, Weisselberg blamed himself and another executive, Jeffrey McConney, for orchestrating a 15-year tax-evasion scheme that sought to compensate company executives, including Weisselberg, with unreported benefits such as free cars, apartments and other paid personal expenses. Weisselberg, who held several titles at the Trump Organization and spent years as its chief financial officer, testified that Trump was not involved in those crimes.

In the civil fraud trial brought by James, Weisselberg was a defendant and was ordered to pay $1 million as a penalty, representing the amount of severance he received from the company. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron found that Weisselberg was a player in the persistent fraud and that his severance was an award for remaining loyal to Trump.

Trump was fined more than $350 million, representing ill-gotten gains earned through deceptive practices in real estate deals. He owes another $100 million in prejudgment interest, but he is appealing the judge’s decision.

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Montclair State University, BA in History

Shayna Jacobs is a federal courts and law enforcement reporter on the national security team at The Washington Post, where she covers the Southern and Eastern districts of New York. 

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