NEW YORK — Retired Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg was released from New York’s Rikers Island prison on Friday after serving time for lying under oath, according to online records.
The former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s real estate company pleaded guilty in March to committing perjury during his testimony in the fraud process that the New York attorney general filed against the former president.
Weisselberg admitted to lying about how Trump’s Manhattan penthouse came to be overvalued in his financial statements.
In exchange for pleading guilty to two counts of perjury, prosecutors agreed not to prosecute him for any other crimes he may have committed in connection with his longtime employment with the Trump Organization.
“Allen Weisselberg has accepted responsibility for his conduct and now looks forward to the end of this life-changing experience and the return to his family and retirement,” said his lawyer, Seth Rosenberg, after he was sentenced in April .
It was Weisselberg’s second stint behind bars. The 76-year-old served 100 days in prison last year for evading taxes on $1.7 million in company benefits, including a rent-free Manhattan apartment and luxury cars.
Weisselberg, who worked for Trump’s family for nearly 50 years, testified twice during trials that went badly for Trump. Each time, he went out of his way to suggest that his boss had not committed any serious wrongdoing.
Weisselberg’s attorney and spokespeople for the city Department of Correction did not respond to phone messages or emails seeking comment.
