Ex-Trump Organization CFO to be sentenced today for lying under oath during Trump’s civil fraud trial

Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg will be sentenced today for lying under oath during Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial.

The 76-year-old longtime Trump executive is expected to be handed a five-month sentence in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday morning – sending him back to the notorious Rikers Island prison for a second time over his loyalty to the former president.

Weisselberg previously served 100 days last year for tax-dodging through perks he received as an employee of the Trump Organization.

Last month, he pleaded guilty to perjury charges after admitting he lied while giving testimony to investigators examining the real estate company’s finances.

He had been charged with five counts of perjury in the first degree, but he reached a plea deal with prosecutors which saw him plead guilty to two of those five counts.

Under the terms of the deal, he will be sentenced to five months in jail.

Weisselberg is expected to report to Rikers Island immediately after the sentencing hearing to begin his sentence.

The agreement with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office required Weisselberg’s admission that he lied during his testimony to investigators in a deposition last May and in his October interviews with the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James regarding his former employer’s business practices.

Weisselberg is not now expected to turn on Mr Trump or be called as a witness against him in the latter’s upcoming criminal case, which was brought against him by Mr Bragg and is scheduled to begin on Monday 15 April.

The district attorney indicted Mr Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, a year ago on 34 charges related to the falsification