Former Trump Money Man Sentenced to Five Months for Perjury
![NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 17: Former CFO Allen Weisselberg leaves the courtroom for a lunch recess during a trial at the New York Supreme Court on November 17, 2022 in New York City. The Trump Organization is charged with criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records, and filing false tax returns in a scheme to defraud the state. Former CFO Weisselberg, who is on his second day of testimony, has pleaded guilty to 15 criminal charges as part of the probe and is expected to testify against his former employer. The case is unrelated to the civil case being brought by NY Attorney General Letitia James against the Trump Organization. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif)
Former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg has been sentenced to five months in prison for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump.
Earlier this month, Weisselberg, who served as the chief financial officer of Trump’s flagship company, entered a plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors over charges of perjury. In January of last year, Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in prison after pleading guilty to failing to declare and pay taxes on more than $1.7 million in company benefits provided by the former president’s flagship company. He was released in April of 2023 after having his sentence significantly reduced on good behavior.
Last month, Trump was ordered to pay $355 million in damages after he and his company were found liable for years of financial fraud pertaining to his corporate and real estate holdings. In May of last year, Weisselberg misled prosecutors regarding his knowledge of Trump’s efforts to overvalue a triplex Manhattan apartment based on the property’s square footage.
While he admitted to lying in his testimony regarding Trump’s civil fraud trial, the plea deal allowed Weisselberg to skirt charges directly related to the matter, instead he pleaded guilty to two felony counts regarding lies in a separate, 2020 deposition.
“It is a crime to lie in depositions and at trial, plain and simple,” a Manhattan DA spokesperson said in March. “Allen Weisselberg took an oath to be truthful, and then committed perjury.”