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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWeisselberg sentenced to 5 months behind bars.
MSNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/ex-trump-org-cfo-allen-weisselberg-sentencing-hearing.html
MOMFUDSKI
(5,765 posts)to prison right now.
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Even if he did flip on Loser
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)Except that he's spending those five months at Rikers Island, which is so awful, it should have been shut down decades ago. I have a hunch that things will be so miserable for him, he'll sing even more than he already has when he gets out.
Ocelot II
(115,947 posts)The place is a hellhole, probably should be shut down.
gab13by13
(21,480 posts)he did not flip, he lied for trump on the stand.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)hlthe2b
(102,494 posts)niyad
(113,776 posts)days.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)but he's facing no consequences?
maxsolomon
(33,449 posts)IOKIYAR.
GenXer47
(1,204 posts)Allen was the link between Fred Trump and Donald - like Dick Cheney was to HW and GW Bush. The real brains behind the operation.
Five months isn't enough of course, but he is 75. It's not gonna be easy moving from a high ride luxury Manhattan apartment to a cell.
gab13by13
(21,480 posts)and yet according to Michael Cohen he lied on the stand to protect Trump. Trump is celebrating.
GenXer47
(1,204 posts)every day when you wake up in a home or apartment and he wakes up in a cell. Doesn't happen much in white collar American justice!
Anyway I'm cracking a beer for the occasion and I hope others will too.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)These fuckers get every fucking break and protection possible.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)he may not survive the "visit".
and, oddly, I'm okay with that.
old guy
(3,284 posts)He will get "ill" and be transferred to the medical facility where in 5 months he will be pronounced cured.
TxGuitar
(4,216 posts)or wheelchair
He will find a doctor to weasel his way out.