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Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors
NY Times ^

Posted on 08/15/2022 3:42:41 PM PDT by springwater13

Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime top executive at Donald J. Trump’s family business who was indicted on tax charges last summer, is nearing a plea deal with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office but would not cooperate with a broader investigation into Mr. Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

His plea deal, if finalized, would bring prosecutors no closer to indicting the former president but would nonetheless brand one of his most trusted lieutenants a felon.

On Monday, Mr. Weisselberg’s lawyers and prosecutors met with the judge overseeing the case, according to a court database. The judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday in Mr. Weisselberg’s case, a possible indication that a deal has been reached and a plea could be entered then.

While Mr. Weisselberg, 75, is facing financial penalties as well as years in prison if convicted at trial, a plea deal would scrap a high-profile trial and most likely would spare him from a lengthy sentence. One person with knowledge of the matter said that Mr. Weisselberg was expected to receive a five-month prison sentence, an unexpectedly favorable outcome for him.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allenhweisselberg; allenweisselberg; creepstate; deepstate; manhattanda; policestate; singlepartystate; trump; trumporg; weisselberg
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1 posted on 08/15/2022 3:42:41 PM PDT by springwater13
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To: springwater13

Lawfare. The “Just Us” legal system acting as a political weapon.

Shameful.

My only satisfaction is that someday, the same scumbags instituting this will wind up victim to it.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 3:45:23 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

They are scumbags.


3 posted on 08/15/2022 3:46:19 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: springwater13

Plea bargaining should be illegal.


4 posted on 08/15/2022 3:47:05 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: springwater13

And gutless Republicans say nothing.


5 posted on 08/15/2022 3:47:48 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: springwater13

Favorable? He did nothing that thousands of executives have done who paid a minor fine for it. Private use of a company apartment? A recommendation for a kid?


6 posted on 08/15/2022 3:47:59 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: springwater13

A cold dish of revenge is coming.


7 posted on 08/15/2022 3:48:12 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

He paid for his grandchildren’s tuition! LOCK HIM UP!
He had a free parking spot! LOCK HIM UP!


8 posted on 08/15/2022 3:50:32 PM PDT by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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To: McGavin999

yeah

he is going to jail because he worked for Trump

anyone else would have been able to write a check


9 posted on 08/15/2022 3:50:54 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go?)
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To: oblomov
Plea bargaining should be illegal.

The cliche BS is that "they had to offer lesser charges to get something that would make it through court." But I have seen many examples in local cases that seem laughably easy to bring to convictions.

As always my full disclosure: I do not believe in the jury system, the system of "justice", the DOJ or the FBI.

10 posted on 08/15/2022 3:52:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: springwater13
So now *he* will be the one who sends DJT to the Colorado Supermax for 310 months.
11 posted on 08/15/2022 3:53:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: TornadoAlley3
"A cold dish of revenge is coming."

"KHAN - Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?"


12 posted on 08/15/2022 3:58:07 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Gay State Conservative

I think since he pleads guilty he loses his 5th amendment rights in grand jury testimony for his crimes. There is still a case against Trump Org and a dual civil/criminal investigation into Trump and his family.

Weisselberg is a solid guy. He didn’t sell out Trump like Cohen did or the many others.


13 posted on 08/15/2022 3:58:10 PM PDT by springwater13
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To: springwater13

What an effin joke


14 posted on 08/15/2022 3:58:40 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: plain talk

I thought the Klingon dish was Gaak and was not only served cold but alive!


15 posted on 08/15/2022 4:00:10 PM PDT by Reily
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To: stinkerpot65

The parasitic GOP is quiet like a church mouse waiting to be on top and play with their rat friends again


16 posted on 08/15/2022 4:02:32 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Alas Babylon!

The night of long knives approaches for many regime men who might be too independent or who might know too much. There will be Yezhovs and Yagodas among our new masters.


17 posted on 08/15/2022 4:02:40 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: TornadoAlley3

What in the world would make you think that a cold dish of revenge is coming?? WHEN have you EVER SEEN our side play this dirty WHEN?? Our side are a bunch of pussys and the Dems KNOW IT!!! Our side are nothing more than doormats!!!


18 posted on 08/15/2022 4:03:14 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Reily

And how did Kahn know a Klingon proverb when he had never met a Klingon?


19 posted on 08/15/2022 4:04:22 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: hardspunned
The night of long knives approaches

Whats to stop them from arresting and putting Donald Trump in jail?

20 posted on 08/15/2022 4:05:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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