Without implicating his former boss…
Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, has reached an agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
A longtime lieutenant to former President Donald Trump, Weisselberg will plead guilty to perjury charges as soon as Monday. The aging businessman pleaded guilty to 15 criminal charges in 2022, including grand larceny and falsifying business records.
Last year, he was imprisoned for five months at Rikers Island in New York.
The New York Times reports on the latest development that could send Weisselberg back and why Trump isn’t worried – at least yet:
Yet Mr. Weisselberg, who for years has remained steadfastly loyal to Mr. Trump in the face of intense prosecutorial pressure, is not expected to implicate his former boss. That unbroken streak of loyalty has frustrated prosecutors and already once cost him his freedom.
Mr. Weisselberg, 76, is now expected to concede that he lied to investigators from the New York attorney general’s office when they were investigating Mr. Trump for fraud. The attorney general, Letitia James, had accused Mr. Trump of wildly inflating his net worth to obtain favorable loans and other benefits.
That civil case recently ended with a judge imposing a huge financial penalty on the former president — more than $450 million with interest.
A lawyer for Mr. Weisselberg, Seth L. Rosenberg, could not immediately be reached for comment.
According to anonymous sources, prosecutors have been in talks with Weisselberg for weeks about a plea deal concerning his testimony in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation.
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