Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s real estate company, pleaded guilty to perjury over false testimony he gave to support Trump in New York state’s civil fraud case. Weisselberg, who was led into a lower Manhattan courtroom in handcuffs Monday, was also a defendant in the civil suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. He entered his plea following talks with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and, under an agreement with Bragg’s office, will be sentenced to five months in jail when he is sentenced next month. The development comes as Trump is appealing his loss in the fraud case. That trial resulted in a $454 million judgment against him and his company for inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars a year for more than a decade to get better terms on loans from Deutsche Bank AG and other lenders. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ex-trump-cfo-weisselberg-to-plead-guilty-to-perjury-in-ny-case-1.2042347 _________________________________ You have to be a criminal to be part of Trump's entourage. Weisselberg had served a few months in prison last year for tax fraud. But unable to learn his lesson, he went and lied to Judge Engoron at his infamous boss's fraud trial. A longer stay behind bars will do him a world of good.
Basically, Trump's people now understand that they have no chance of winning with the DA's, judges and juries stacked against them, so they are forced to plea bargain and plead guilty to lesser charges in order to escape endless persecution. If not for being associated with Trump, these cases would never, ever, ever, have been brought. Ever.
Yeah, that must be it! No way they did anything wrong, got caught and are now suffering the consequences! It's too bad they didn't have lawyers who could prove they were set up and being persecuted. That "If" word is mighty powerful! Like, as "If".......................
And that's not all. A dozen other defendants in Georgia have pleaded guilty and will testify against Trump. Two former Mar-a-Lago employees will also testify for the prosecution in the case of the secret documents Trump stole. And the cherry on top: Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, is the prosecution's star witness in the attempted election tampering trial. Bill Barr, former US Attorney General, has also made himself available to testify against Trump.
BS, Trump did this to himself. Nobody forced him to break the rules and laws. He has had constant legal advice, yet he still made his own decisions.
Remember what his job was. Trying to justify absurd valuations that his boss made up, moving money around from one slush fund to another, bailing cash from profitable lines to losers, and them misrepresenting them as performing assets for the bank, paying off porn starts, quack doctors……. All that takes concentration. He kept those plates juggling for years!
