Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced to five months in jail for perjury

Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for committing perjury when he testified in New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.

Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty to two perjury counts last month and is expected to once again go to Rikers Island, New York City's notorious jail complex, according to The Associated Press. 

The sentencing on Wednesday lasted less than five minutes.  

Weisselberg spent 100 days in Rikers Island last year after he pleaded guilty to a tax fraud scheme at the Trump Organization. He was sentenced to five months in jail and agreed to pay nearly $2 million in taxes and penalties, but he was released early on good behavior in April 2023. As part of that plea deal, Weisselberg also agreed to complete five years of probation and testify at the trial of the Trump organization.

Weisselberg had testified that he did not know much about how the value of Trump's Manhattan penthouse was determined, and he admitted to lying about this statement.

The cases show Weisselberg's loyalty to Trump, whose family employed him for nearly 50 years. The company still pays his legal bills. 

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