Allen Weisselberg returned to prison on Wednesday after a five-month sentence for perjury during the recent civil trial for financial fraud of his ex-boss Donald Trump. He had already spent several months behind bars for tax fraud, following his conviction in 2022 in a case which also targeted the economic empire of the former President of the United States.
His conviction comes five days before the scheduled opening of the first criminal trial before Donald Trump's New York courts, linked to the concealment of payments to buy the silence of a former porn star, Stormy Daniels. Donald Trump must appear on charges of falsifying Trump Organization business records to hide these payments. He risks a prison sentence if he is found guilty, in the middle of the campaign for the 2024 presidential election which he hopes to win against Joe Biden. He admitted to having lied during the previous civil trial about the value of the Republican billionaire's real estate, in this case his personal triplex located in Trump Tower in New York. He appealed the conviction but had to post a guarantee of 175 million dollars in American justice.