Allen Weisselberg, former financial director of the Trump Organization and very close to the magnate donald trumpwas sentenced this Tuesday to five months in prison.
The executive pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion in a scheme at the New York-based Trump family business, which was also found guilty on December 6.
For Weisselberg there are a total of 15 charges of fraud and tax evasion for an amount of 1.76 million dollars of income received and not declared between 2005 and 2021.
The 75-year-old man will serve an effective sentence of 100 days in Rikers Island prison in New York. According to the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office, Weisselberg was “one of the main beneficiaries of the system, receiving some 1.76 million dollars of undeclared remuneration, including the payment of rent for a luxury apartment in Manhattan, services, parking expenses, Mercedes Benz vehicles for him and his wife, furniture, money for personal vacations, and tuition fees for his grandchildren at a private school.”
“The companies did not declare this income to the tax authorities, they did not make tax withholdings or pay health contributions on this income,” the entity added. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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