Former Trump Organization chief financial officer (CFO) Allen Weisselberg was released Wednesday from New York’s Riker’s Island prison after serving 99 days of a five-month sentence after pleading guilty for tax fraud.
not guilty last year when indicted by the Manhattan district attorney in a joint local and state investigation that accused them of not reporting tax liabilities for employee fringe benefits for several years.
The relatively minor allegations were anticlimactic, given the public determination of elected Democratic prosecutors to pursue Trump for whatever crime they could find. Trump himself was not accused of breaking the law, but prosecutors hoped to turn Weisselberg against Trump by pressuring him to testify against his former boss in other investigations.
That effort appears to have failed, with Weisselberg refusing to cooperate, and prosecutors reportedly considering a plea deal that could see the septuagenarian executive sentenced to as little as five months in jail, and eligible for early release after about 100 days.at the time: “Prosecutors have long hoped that they could persuade Mr. Weisselberg to testify against Mr. Trump, given his decades in the employ of the Trump family and his vast knowledge of the company and its business practices.
Weisselberg is one of several Trump associates who have gone to prison on tax charges but have refused to turn on the former president. Another was former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was imprisoned in solitary confinement on federal tax charges that had previously been investigated without prosecution — before he worked for Trump, briefly, in 2016. Others, like former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, turned against him.
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