hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt
rose to the position quickly of cfo because he did for donald what donald wanted. anyone, i ll give you an example. weisselberg made a comment that he told the jurors he be trayed the trump family s trust by conspireing with a subordinate to hire decades, luxury cars, in his grandchildren s private school tuition. let me be clear, the apartment his son was living in is owned by donald and that the vehicles that were leased were leased off of the trump account. as well as the trump tuition, the children s tuition that was paid for from the trump organization. so the nonsense and whose idea was it to compensate executives with those benefits? it may have been allen s, it may have been donald s, it may have been somebody else s. the point is it doesn t matter whose idea it was.