The Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges — the second time he has done so regarding his connection to the former president, per The Washington Post.
Court filings showed that Weisselberg pleaded guilty to five counts of perjury in the first degree, charges which emanate from statements he made to New York Attorney General Letitia James' office. James subsequently brought a civil fraud trial against Trump, in which he was recently ordered to pay a financial penalty of over $400 million for years of conspiring to inflate his net worth. Weisselberg was found liable for $1 million in the case and was banned for life from working in the "financial control function" of any New York company, according to WaPo.
