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Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial, was sentenced on Tuesday to five months behind bars for helping engineer a wide-ranging tax fraud at the former president's real estate company.

Judicial order, dated 8 December 2021, was unsealed by judge presiding over tax fraud trial

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump knew about Trump Organization executives’ tax-dodging schemes, a Manhattan prosecutor told a jury in a closing statement Thursday in the organization’s tax fraud trial.

NEW YORK — Trump Organization lawyers rested their case Monday as a Manhattan judge chewed them out for throwing “anything and everything” at a jury as they heard remaining evidence in the tax fraud case.

Finance chief Allen Weisselberg, whose plea deal depends on him telling the truth, claims he acted alone in Trump Organization tax fraud trial in New York

NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization, testified Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court that he kept a handwritten list detailing the brazen tax fraud he committed in his top drawer at Trump Tower.

NEW YORK — The loyal controller of the Trump Organization was declared a hostile witness Monday as he sought to absolve his longtime employer of criminal wrongdoing for a multi-year tax fraud scheme by pinning it all on his boss.

NEW YORK — New Yorkers are nothing if not honest.

NEW YORK — An Upper West Side mom called for jury duty at the Trump Organization trial — whose kids went to prep school with Allen Weisselberg’s grandchildren — always wondered how the family afforded their life of luxury.