Former Trump CFO Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail after pleading guilty to perjury

A New York judge on Monday sentenced longtime former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to five months in jail after he pleaded guilty to perjury in connection to testimony in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial brought by New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James. 

Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office Monday and appeared in state court later that day in handcuffs and a mask as he pleaded guilty to five perjury counts, per The Associated Press. 

He had been expected to plead guilty to the charges, which deal with questions he answered during a deposition in May and Trump's trial in October over allegations that the former president misrepresented his wealth on financial statements to secure better terms for loans and insurance.

Trump is currently appealing the decision from that trial, which resulted in Judge Arthur Engoron ordering him to pay fines worth more than $454 million, when including interest. Engoron also barred Trump from serving as an officer of a New York company for three years, and he barred Trump's two eldest sons from doing the same for two years. 

Weisselberg has already spent nearly 100 days incarcerated at the notorious Rikers Island jail after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion. That plea deal required him to testify for prosecutors about the Trump Organization's business dealings, and he did so about his own involvement, but carefully did not implicate Trump.

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