Former Trump CFO Weisselberg admits to perjury and will not have to testify in hush-money trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s company, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to lying under oath during his testimony in the ex-president’s civil fraud case. His plea deal will send him back to jail but does not require him to testify at Trump’s hush-money criminal trial.

Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty in state court to two counts of perjury and will be sentenced to five months in jail, which would be his second stint behind bars after serving 100 days last year in an unrelated tax fraud case.

In pleading guilty, Weisselberg found himself again caught between the law and his loyalty to Trump, whose family employed him for nearly 50 years and sent him into retirement with a $2 million severance. His plea to perjury is further evidence that, rather than testify truthfully or flip on his old boss, he was willing to again spend a chunk of his golden years in jail.

“It is a crime to lie in depositions and at trial — plain and simple,” the Manhattan prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The plea agreement does not require him to cooperate or provide testimony at the hush-money trial, which is scheduled to begin March 25. Prosecutors promised not to prosecute him for other crimes he might have committed in connection with his employment at the Trump Organization.

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