paid and received all these off the books compensation including the company paid apartment, the cars, the private school tuition for his skids he said that was so offensive he would have sentenced him to i agreater amount of time in jail had he not already made this deal. now, this came after weisselberg s attorney asked for a softer sentence, saying that when you re 75 years old, every month in jail counts, the judge obviously rejecting that and saying that he did find that weisselberg had in hmet all the terms of his plea. he sentenced him to five months in jail and five years of supervised release. he was remanded in custody, handcuffed and will be processed and sent to rikers island at some point today. kara scannell, thank you. ukrainian troops are set to begin training in the u.s. on how to use patriot missiles. now, the pentagon is confirming it will be at fort sill in oklahoma where the u.s. conducts its own training of the air defense system. cwhat have you learned, orr
paula, tell us more. cassidy hutchinson revealing that mark meadows destroyed papers by incinerating them. that s right. she testified she observed him burning documents about twice a week. she received throughout the day he would put more logs to keep it burning through the day. i recall roughly a dozen time when he would throw a few more pieces in it when he put more logs on the fireplace. interestingly, at least on two occasions, these burning sessions came off meeting with scott perry. he has, of course, been linked with efforts to use the justice department to try to overturn the results of the election. she also testified that meadows was trying to keep some meetings with staffers, quote, off the books, which means keeping them from the official white house records, the official oval office diaries, the public
someone who had been searched could run to a different court as he had and blocked the government from continuing even though an earlier judge had said that the search was lawful. and that was a reasoning on that was always really hard to follow, what would it mean for the entire system, and they said, no, that just does not work and they shut it down. in other legal news in new york s closing arguments, they re under way in the tax fraud case. the defense is trying to pin this on allen weisselberg alone claiming the company didn t know about these off the books compensations. the prosecution says it wasn t that they didn t know what they were doing that was illegal, it s that they didn t care. who s made the stronger case so far? well, you know, they re wrapping up their final arguments right now and donald trump is not a defendant in this lawsuit and each side is trying to make the arguments about him
agreement, former cfo allen weisselberg is expected to testify. what does he know, do we think? and will he cooperate with prosecutors? they ve teased that he will offer up the inside story. that s right. so, he has pled guilty. he has told a judge under oath that he is guilty of the crimes with which he s been charged. and, so prosecutors should expect can expect that he will testify consistent with that. he pled guilty to being the beneficiary of off the books money, and failing to pay taxes on it, and that money came from the trump organization. it benefited him, but it also benefited the organization. so, when he pled guilty, rather than go to trial, which was his right, when he pled guilty, mehdi, he agreed to testify against the company as this trial. and so, you should expect that his testimony will be consistent with his guilty plea, and he ll tell the jury exactly
so, voters in five states had the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books on election day. i have no idea they were still on the books. if you thought that slavery was outlawed in this country, back in 1865, with the 13th amendment, let me remind you, it s actually one exception to it. the object of section one of the amendment reads, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, where the party should be dually convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place in the jurisdiction, excuse me.