Former President Donald Trump's longtime chief accountant Allen Weisslberg is about to head to jail — and, said former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman on CNN Wednesday, the former president may have to join him there before long.
Weisselberg pleaded guilty to perjury for his testimony in the Trump civil fraud trial, where he had denied ever having to consider the inflated area figures of Trump Tower, only to have it exposed by reporters that he had defended precisely those figures in email correspondences years before. The case is unrelated to Trump's upcoming Manhattan criminal trial beginning next Monday, which centers on his alleged hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal information from voters in the 2016 election.
"Allen Weisselberg about to go to prison or jail, right?" said anchor John Berman. "For the second time."
"That's right," confirmed Akerman.
"For things connected to, in one way or another, Donald Trump," Berman followed up.
"And not only connected, but to covering up for Donald Trump," agreed Akerman. "And refusing to testify against Donald Trump. And on top of all that, he was also fined $1 million by Judge Engoron in the Trump fraud case, which is ironically the same amount of money that Richard Nixon approved to keep the Watergate burglars quiet."
Ultimately, he continued, "the main significance coming out of all of this is that because Allen Weisselberg, who is being sent to jail twice because of not cooperating against Donald Trump and doing things for Donald Trump — what all of that means is if Donald Trump is convicted in this upcoming case starting on Monday, I think it's almost impossible that the judge in that case will not send Donald Trump to the presidential suite at Rikers Island."
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