FILE - Allen Weisselberg, right, stands behind then President-elect Donald Trump during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York , Jan. 11, 2017. Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump ’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case. Weisselberg is expected to be sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to two counts of perjury.
Now, he’s again trading life as a Florida retiree for another stay at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex. In agreeing to a five-month sentence, prosecutors cited Weisselberg’s age and willingness to admit wrongdoing. In New York, perjury is a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. Prosecutors promised not to prosecute Weisselberg for other crimes he might have committed in connection with his Trump Organization employment.
However, state lawyers noted, Weisselberg got an email early in that same year with a 1994 document attached that pegged Trump’s apartment at 10,996 square feet . Weisselberg testified that he remembered the email but not the attachment and that he didn’t “walk around knowing the size” of the apartment.
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