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Trump executive Allen Weisselberg gets 5-month jail sentence

Attorney Nicholas Gravante, representing the Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, leaves after making a statement outside court, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in New York. Weisselberg, the longtime Donald Trump lieutenant who became a star prosecution witness and helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud is set to be sentenced for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Attorney Nicholas Gravante, representing the Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, gives a statement outside court, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in New York. Weisselberg, the longtime Donald Trump lieutenant who became a star prosecution witness and helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud is set to be sentenced for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, center, appears during his sentencing hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in New York. Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump’s business empire was taken into custody Tuesday to begin serving a five-month jail term for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in job perks — a punishment the judge who sentenced him said was probably too lenient. (Curtis Means/DailyMail via AP, Pool
Trump executive Allen Weisselberg gets 5-month jail sentence