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After spending nearly three months at New York City’s dreaded Rikers Island jail, longtime Donald Trump finance guru Allen Weisselberg looks like he has booked a return trip back there on Monday when he admitted to lying about his former employer’s bank fraud schemes.
He now faces another five months in jail, this time for frustrating law enforcement efforts to get at his former boss.
Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s ex-chief financial officer, turned himself into the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to plead guilty to perjury. Local prosecutors are swooping in to hold him accountable for frustrating a parallel investigation at the New York Attorney General’s Office. The disgraced accountant, who keeps trying to protect Trump, admitted that he lied to the AG’s investigators in depositions and at her recent bank fraud trial.