NEW YORK — A New York judge on Tuesday condemned the “offensive” greed of the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg before sentencing him to five months behind bars.
At the CFO’s Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing, Justice Juan Merchan honored his promise to Weisselberg in August when he pleaded guilty to tax fraud. The sentence includes a term of five years' postrelease supervision.
But the judge denied a request from his lawyer to lessen the jail term. Merchan said he would never have made the deal in the first place had he grasped the selfish nature of Weisselberg’s crimes — revealed in evidence at the Trump Organization’s winter trial, which ended in two entities’ Dec. 6 convictions.
