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
no picnic. what did they get, $2 million out of him? they re going to get $1.6 million out of the trump organization next week on the sentencing, on, what, 17 counts of violation. 1.6 from the trump organization? he ll put out one tweet and double that money. let me bring you in on this. it would appear that alvin bragg has gone the way of the current leadership of doj, prosecuting and sentencing the foot soldiers in trump s criminal conspiracies. but stopping short of going for the head of the fish. what do you make of allen weisselberg being on the way to rikers? a sentence of five months given his involvement feels very
money to stormy daniels and reimburse michael cohen. executive one was alan weisselberg. there would have been no stormy daniels hush money scheme without allen weisselberg. in the office with me was allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization. he acknowledged that he was going to pay the 130 how, and that he and i should go back to his office and figure out how to do it. the bottom signature, i believe, is allen weisselberg. can you suggest who we should talk to for additional information? david becker, barry howard,
would take what the prosecutors had recommended, which is six months in exchange for your guilty plea and promise of cooperation and knock it down to five months in jail. he says, but based on the evidence that he heard during the course of the trial, he said he found it offensive, that was his world, offensive that allen weisselberg arranged for a payment to his wife purely for the purposes that she could receive a social security benefit, not doing real work for the company at all. look, at a time when so many americans are working so harold to eventually be able to get those social security benefits, he found it very troubling and says he would have gone beyond what he had promised him if he wanted to break that promise. the representative for allen weisselberg provided more detail to something we heard during trial. effectively weisselberg met with trump s attorney, in this case,
they didn t have to gross up that salary. they didn t have to pay more in salary to cover the benefits that they were conveying to allen weisselberg and others in the trump organization. thank you very much for your excellent reporting on this, for being there for all of us all day and for your great place to start off with michael cohen. thank you. to tom winter s question, have you had recent contact with brag. i suspect i will be meeting with them in relatively short order. more than that, i don t want to discuss. i have not personally be subpoenaed, nor have i personally spoken with them. i do believe based upon alvin brag s recently statements that i will be meeting with them very soon. and that is about the cases that are outstanding, the cases that have not been brought. i don t know. again, i haven t spoken with them in order to be able to answer, you know, you appropriately.