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