Allen Weiselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump’s company, is expected to reach a plea deal in a criminal case against him, according to two people familiar with the matter. Weisselberg was charged last year with felony charges including tax fraud. The specific terms of any plea agreement were not immediately clear. One of the people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity, said they expected Weiselberg to be sentenced to about five months behind bars. The person also said Weiselberg is not expected to help in an ongoing investigation into Trump, who is facing legal scrutiny from multiple directions. Weiselberg was charged with more than a dozen felony counts when he was indicted last year, including grand theft and criminal tax fraud. Before the indictment, a person familiar with the investigation into Trump’s finances had said prosecutors hoped to get Weiselberg to testify against the former president as part of a deal that would reduce his own legal risk. The status of key investigations involving Donald Trump Weisselberg’s attorneys declined to comment on the status of the case Monday, as did the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The expected plea deal was first reported by The New York Times. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Thursday. Weiselberg and the Trump Organization were indicted last year in a case alleging they conspired to avoid taxes by hiding executive pay. Prosecutors called it “a sweeping and audacious scheme of illegal payments,” while Trump and his lawyers attacked the case as politically motivated. Weisselberg and the company had pleaded not guilty. News of a possible deal in his case came as the ongoing investigations into Trump continued to dominate the headlines. A week earlier, with Trump in New York preparing to be deposed in a political investigation of his business, FBI agents searched his South Florida club for government documents and found nearly a dozen sets of classified or top secret material. Trump’s secrets: How a records controversy led the FBI to investigate Mar-a-Lago The Justice Department’s criminal investigation into efforts to subvert the 2020 election is investigating his actions as part of that effort. And in Georgia, prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the election said former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as Trump’s lawyer, is a target of that probe, his lawyer said Monday. In Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Alvin Bragg faced pressure over his office’s long-running investigation into Trump. Two key prosecutors involved in the case abruptly resigned in February, upset that they were not cleared to indict the former president, while a grand jury convened to hear evidence against him was believed to have expired in the spring.
