Former Trump exec Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying under oath

State of play: Weisselberg's conviction Wednesday was connected to an interview he gave to the New York attorney general's office in the lead up to the civil fraud case.

• He will serve his sentence in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.
• Weisselberg had also been charged with three additional counts of perjury, but he avoided pleading guilty to those counts under the terms of the plea deal.
• "Allen Weisselberg accepted responsibility for his conduct and now looks forward to the end of this life-altering experience and to returning to his family and his retirement," Seth Rosenberg, Weisselberg's lawyer, told Axios in a statement Wednesday.

Flashback: In 2022, Weisselberg pleaded guilty in a tax fraud case against the Trump Organization and was sentenced to serve five months.

• He was released from jail in April 2023, having also served his previous sentence on Rikers Island.

Zoom out: Weisselberg worked for the Trump family for nearly 50 years, having begun working for Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father, in the 1970s.

• Weisselberg was given a $2 million severance deal after he left the Trump Organization in 2022.

• The organization continues to pay his legal bills, per AP.

The big picture: New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Trump and associates in 2022 over decades of financial fraud.

• In February, New York Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump, his companies and co-defendants to pay nearly $364 million in penalties.
• Engoron ruled that Weisselberg, as one of the defendants, owed $1 million.
• Trump appealed the decision and the bond he was required to post was ultimately lowered to $175 million. He posted the reduced bond earlier this month, heading off the possibility for now of his assets being seized.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional details and developments.