Allen Howard Weisselberg was born on August 15,1947 and is an American businessman who was convicted of tax evasion in connection with his role as former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.
30 Facts About Allen Weisselberg
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In 2022, Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to 15 criminal charges including grand larceny, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.
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Allen Weisselberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the borough's Brownsville neighborhood.
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Allen Weisselberg graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in nearby East New York, before receiving a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Pace University in 1970.
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Allen Weisselberg began working as an accountant for Gravesend-based real estate magnate Fred Trump in 1973.
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Allen Weisselberg was a board member and treasurer of the Donald J Trump Foundation.
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In 2017, Allen Weisselberg said in a deposition to New York State investigators that he was not aware he was a board member "at least for the last 10 or 15 years".
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Allen Weisselberg has handled the household expenses of the Trump family.
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On January 11,2017, shortly before Donald Trump's inauguration as president of the United States, the Trump Organization announced that Allen Weisselberg would manage the company along with Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
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On May 2,2024, the Daily Beast published a story which revealed that Allen Weisselberg was secretly involved in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer at the start of his presidency, said that Allen Weisselberg had arranged for the Trump Organization to pay Cohen $35,000 a month, to reimburse him for hush money Trump had asked Cohen to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election, to keep her from talking publicly about an affair she says she had with Trump.
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In July 2018, Allen Weisselberg was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury regarding the Cohen investigation.
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Cohen further stated that Allen Weisselberg coordinated the repayment to him after he made the hush money payment for Daniels on Trump's behalf.
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Cohen testified that he and Allen Weisselberg personally went into Trump's 26th floor Trump Tower office to discuss the reimbursement payments in the short time after the 2016 election victory.
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Allen Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney's office in New York City on July 1,2021, hours before the grand jury's indictments against him and the Trump Organization were unsealed.
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Allen Weisselberg was charged with 15 felony counts for evading $344,745 in taxes over 15 years.
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Allen Weisselberg initially pleaded not guilty, but on August 18,2022, he pleaded guilty to all 15 counts of grand larceny, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.
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In November 2022, Allen Weisselberg testified at the Trump Organization's tax fraud trial.
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Allen Weisselberg stated that the real estate company cleaned up its tax practices in anticipation of additional scrutiny after Trump entered the White House and left two of his sons, Donald Trump Jr.
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Allen Weisselberg testified that during the cleanup, Trump's sons knew the company paid executives' personal expenses that were not reported as income, and provided bonuses as if they were independent contractors.
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On January 10,2023, Allen Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in the infirmary unit of Rikers Island, at which point he hired prison consultant Craig Rothfeld.
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On October 10,2023, Allen Weisselberg testified at the civil fraud trial of the Trump Organization.
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On March 4,2024, Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury in the first degree, related to the testimony he gave on July 17,2020, related to the New York civil investigation of Donald Trump and his company.
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Allen Weisselberg admitted that he gave false information in late 2023 at the civil fraud trial.
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On March 4,2024, Allen Weisselberg pled guilty in a Manhattan New York state court to two counts of perjury related to lying under oath during the civil fraud trial.
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Allen Weisselberg went to Rikers Island immediately and was released on July 19,2024.
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In 1978, Allen Weisselberg purchased a modest ranch-style house in Wantagh, New York, a suburban hamlet in Long Island's Nassau County.
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Former daughter-in-law Jennifer Allen Weisselberg has asserted that Donald Trump disparaged the Wantagh residence at a 2004 family shiva.
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Allen Weisselberg's son Jack Weisselberg is a loan-origination executive at Ladder Capital, which has acted as a lender to the Trump Organization.
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In 2004, Allen Weisselberg appeared as a judge on the seventh episode of the second season of The Apprentice.