Posted on 01/10/2023 5:42:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A longtime executive for Donald Trump is expected to be sent to New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after being sentenced on Tuesday for helping engineer a 15-year tax fraud scheme at the former president's real estate company.
Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's former chief financial officer, pleaded guilty in August, admitting that from 2005 to 2017 he and other executives received bonuses and perks that saved the company and themselves money.
Those days will probably not be easy for Weisselberg, 75, at a jail known for violence, drugs and corruption. Nineteen inmates there died last year.
"You're going into a byzantine black hole," said Craig Rothfeld, a prison consultant helping Weisselberg prepare for lockup.
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Seems like, based on his crimes, he could sue the government for cruel and unusual punishment and win.
I’d eat a handful of fentanyl before going to any prison.
Never happen -
I hate fraudsters - I hate thieves (which is what their fraud did) - and I hate liars (fraud is a form of lying).
But the dude is 75 - of all the places to incarcerate him - why Rikers? Its part of the campaign against all things Trump. It is retaliation because they can’t build a case to convict “The Man”... so they will make it as bad as possible for anyone associated with Trump.
OMG! The heinousness of these crimes deserve the chair, better yet hanging or a firing squad!
Have the accountants that prepared the Fraudulent Biden Tax Returns been Arrested and Charged with Fraud yet??
He is being made an example of what happens if you stand up against the State.
How is Hunter and his IRS problems doing?
This double standard is appalling.
What ever happened to country club prisons?
The worst case scenario for Hunter is a full Presidential pardon...and it very probably will never even get *close* to that. Hunter has very good friends in very high places.
Its part of the campaign against all things Trump.
And I actually do feel sorry for this guy. To me, his crimes are questionable. He belongs in a minimum security prison or, simply, house arrest.
It’s not what you know but WHO you know.
Loyalty, to Donald Trump, is a one-way street.
“a 15-year tax fraud scheme “
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Zealous partisan prosecutors can “find” tax “fraud” in places where IRS audits couldn’t, yet judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement can’t find election fraud even if mules carried evidence of it in sacs and emptied all the documents onto their breakfast table.
What do you think Trump could have done? This is just an opportunity created for you to vent.
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Not on what I've read on the net...... The question is
“was there fraud in the preparations”?
TDS is eating your last brain cell.
Maybe not employ for nearly fifty years a CFO who was engaging in illegal activity? Maybe counseling his CFO to cease engaging in illegal activity in the business that Trump runs?
However, I suspect Trump approved this activity with a wink and a nod and then was able to find the means to remove himself from all culpability in the matter and let Weisselberg take the fall.
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