Former Trump Org CFO To Plead Guilty To Perjury

The New York Times reports:

Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime lieutenant to Donald J. Trump, is negotiating a deal with Manhattan prosecutors that would require him to plead guilty to perjury, people with knowledge of the matter said. As part of the potential agreement with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Mr. Weisselberg would have to admit that he lied on the witness stand in Mr. Trump’s recent civil fraud trial, the people said.

Mr. Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer at Mr. Trump’s family business, also would have to say that he lied under oath during in an interview with the New York attorney general’s office, which brought the civil fraud case. Mr. Weisselberg previously admitted that he orchestrated a scheme to award himself and other Trump Organization executives off-the-books luxuries. He went to jail on Rikers Island for about 100 days.

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Weisselberg, Trump’s former CFO, is negotiating a deal with Manhattan prosecutors to plead guilty to perjury. He’d have to admit that he lied on the witness stand in Trump’s civil fraud trial. https://t.co/43Bxf6JlcJ

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