Former director of the Trump Organization is sentenced to 5 months in prison for fraud and tax evasion

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who had pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion in a scheme orchestrated at the family business of the Trumpwas sentenced this Tuesday to five months in prison, the New York court announced.

very close to Donald TrumpWeisselberg had pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud y tax evasion for an amount of 1.76 million dollars of received and unreported income between 2005 and 2021, in a financial fraud by which the family business of the Trump she was also found guilty on December 6.

According to the American press, Allen Weisselberg75, will serve an effective sentence of 100 days in the sinister Rikers Island prison in New York, which has previously housed Harvey Weinstein and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Weisselberg He has already paid more than $2 million in taxes and fines as part of his plea bargain to avoid several years in prison, the prosecution announced during the trial.

It is expected that the sentence to Trump Organizationwhich operates golf courses, luxury hotels and real estate, comes forward Friday in a case in which Donald Trump is not personally involved.

Justice sat the former director of the family business and the company itself on the bench for erecting a system of false accounting declarations intended to hide for years from the treasury compensation in kind to some executives, in particular to Allen Weisselbergone of the key witnesses in the trial.

The 75-year-old executive, who was “one of the main beneficiaries of the system, received some 1.76 million dollars in undeclared remuneration, including the rental payment for a luxury apartment in Manhattan, services, parking expenses, vehicles Mercedes Benz for him and his wife, furniture, money for personal vacations and paying for his grandchildren’s tuition at a private school,” according to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office.

“The companies did not declare this income to the tax authorities, did not make tax withholdings or pay health contributions on this income,” the prosecution said.

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