Posted on 01/10/2023 11:51:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg will trade the high life for Rikers Island following his sentencing Tuesday for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company perks.
Weisselberg, 75, — who pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges in August and testified against the Trump Org at its trial — is expected to serve just 100 days of the five month prison term handed down in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon.
He is set to be housed in the notorious jail complex’s North Infirmary Command, which has been home to inmates like the rappers Tupac Shakur and Lil Wayne as well as disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, The Post had learned.
The unit has been historically used to house for high-profile or especially notorious suspects, as well as inmates with disabilities. Weisselberg could be released in three months with good behavior, and would then serve five years of probation.
The admitted tax crook had been prepped for his new life behind bars by Craig Rothheld, a consultant, and founder of prison advisory firm Inside Outside Ltd. Rothheld was by his client’s side Tuesday afternoon in court and made the disclosure to The Post over the phone hours earlier.
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So, when they prosecute Joe for not reporting his foreign payoffs, he knows what kind of sentence to expect......
Sending a 75 y/o man to Rikers Island for tax evasion.
Meanwhile, you have a bumper crop of Dems guilty of far worse in unpaid taxes. Two systems of justice here.
Every CEO in America could go to jail for perks. The message is anyone who works for Trump is at risk for persecution. Just once I’d like to see some Dems go to jail.
He'll make it. 1.7 million in undeclared income is nothing to sneeze at.
Its another way of going after Trump
Send a warning to anyone thinking about working with him - work for Trump, and you WILL be a target.
It could have been worse. Weisselberg could have gotten the
Paul Manafort Treatment, where one is sentenced to 7 years.
Lucky for Paul, he was released after abt 2 years due to Covid concerns and his weakening state.
Sending a 75 y/o man to Rikers Island for tax evasion.
Manfort was fed; Weisselberg is state (Why didn’t the feds also go after him ?)
Does NY have any prisons that are like country clubs ? Rikers seems like overkill.
VERY SAD SITUATION. HE SEEMED LIKE AN HONORABLE MAN.
“He’ll make it. 1.7 million in undeclared income is nothing to sneeze at.”
It wasn’t undeclared income.
Using Trump company cars, parking perks and staying at Trump properties over the course of his career seems more than a bit dubious.
It’s not like, say Al Sharpton who has failed to pay millions in delinquent income taxes over the years.
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