The longtime Chief Financial Officer of former President Donald Trump’s company Allen Weisselberg is sooner expected to reach a plea deal in a criminal case registered against him, two people familiar with the matter said. Weisselberg was put on trial last year on felony charges including tax fraud.
However, the specific term of any plea was not immediately clear. One person associated with the matter of proceedings informed the media asking not to be named, and said, it is expected that Weisselberg might be sent behind the bars for five months.
On the matter around this Weisselberg is also not expected to help Trump in the ongoing inquiry of legal scrutiny that the latter faces from multiple directions. Weisselberg’s indictment followed dozen of felony charges against him, among them grand larceny and criminal tax fraud also found special mentioning.
Attorneys for Weisselberg denied passing any comments on the matter yesterday and so did the Manhattan district Attorney’s office. The hearing in the matter is due coming Thursday.
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization were put on trial last year in a case that alleged they plotted to avoid paying the tax. The prosecutors termed it “a sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme,” while Trump and his legal team termed it a politically motivated event. Weisselberg and the company had pleaded not guilty.
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A week earlier, with Trump in New York preparing to be deposed in a civil probe of his business, FBI agents searched his South Florida club for government documents and came away with nearly a dozen sets of classified or top-secret material.
The Justice Department is probing the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Trump’s alleged involvement in it. In Manhattan, District Attorney Alvin Bragg has faced pressure over his office’s long-standing investigation into Trump.
In February, the news of two key prosecutors quitting from the case saying they were upset about not being approved to seek an indictment against the former President.