Allen Weisselberg took a plea deal and won’t testify against his lifelong boss. Instead, he’ll get what some might consider a sweetheart deal for a 75-year-old man who kept his lips shut and wouldn’t implicate his old boss: about 150 days behind bars.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s attempts to flip former President Donald Trump’s loyal money man have officially failed, as the tax-dodging ex-chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg took a plea deal Thursday morning and won’t testify against his lifelong boss.
The second degree grand larceny charge, a felony in the state of New York, carries the stiffest possible penalty: up to 15 years in prison. It all started when journalists uncovered how Trump, in the waning days of his 2016 presidential campaign, used his company to keep his political aspirations from dying by quietly paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her silent about their brief sexual affair in which Trump cheated on his wife Melania. Federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York went after Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal lawyer, for brokering the deal and moving the money around—landing him in prison.
She had divorced his son, Barry, who in typical nepotistic Trump Org fashion had run the company’s Central Park ice rink operation. She was willing to hand over documents detailing how her former father-in-law had been compensated for staying loyal to Trump—and as she put it, always covering up for his dirty deeds.
Prosecutors had Weisselberg’s right-hand man, the company controller Jeffrey S. McConney, testify before a grand jury. But in doing so, they also gave the mid-level accountant a Get Out of Jail Free card. New York has a unique rule that grants complete criminal immunity to anyone who testifies before a grand jury—for anything they admit having done.
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