NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s convicted chief financial officer, is expected to be sentenced to jail time on Tuesday for scheming to dodge taxes at the former president’s company.
Weisselberg, 75, is slated to appear before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to learn his fate. Prosecutors previously promised to endorse a five-month stint on Rikers Island if Weisselberg testified truthfully at the company’s criminal tax fraud trial, which ended in two entities’ convictions on Dec. 6.
The veteran sentry of the Trump Organization’s coffers has worked for the Trump family since his hiring by Donald’s father, Fred, in Brooklyn in the early 1970s to work as a bookkeeper. He described himself in a 2015 deposition as Trump’s “eyes and ears” from a financial standpoint.
