Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to five months in jail for perjury

• Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced for lying under oath during the civil business fraud trial of Donald Trump.
• That sentence will put Weisselberg behind bars for the second time in two years in connection with his work for Trump's company.
• The perjury charges were brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Trump on charges of falsifying business records as part of a hush money scheme.

Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg on Wednesday was sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath during the civil business fraud trial of Donald Trump.

Weisselberg, 76, declined to speak before the judge in a brief hearing in Manhattan criminal court.

That sentence would put Weisselberg behind bars for the second time in two years in connection with his work for Trump's company. He spent three months in jail on Rikers Island last year after pleading guilty to helping orchestrate a tax fraud scheme at the business.

The tax and perjury charges were brought by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Trump on charges of falsifying business records as part of a hush money scheme.

That case is set to head to trial Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court. Weisselberg is not required to testify in it. Trump's attorneys have tried numerous times to delay the trial, including by claiming that Weisselberg's sentencing was scheduled deliberately near it in order to drum up more negative news coverage against Trump.

New York appellate judges on Monday and Tuesday of this week rejected two other recent attempts by Trump's attorneys to postpone the hush money trial.

Weisselberg on March 4 admitted lying during