The rule of law is going to bite the ex-president? Nah, that won't happen

All kinds of sources are reporting that Allen Weisselberg has pled guilty to 15 counts of felony tax evasion. He has to pay back taxes and gets 5 years probation after serving maybe about another 100 days in the slammer. 

What is shocking about this is not the pathetically light sentence. What shocks are reports that claim his deal requires him to testify truthfully in the lawsuit against the ex-president’s companies. The AP reports:

A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes on a free apartment and other perks, striking a deal with prosecutors that could make him a star witness against the company at a trial this fall.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to sentence the 75-year-old executive to five months in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, although he will be eligible for release much earlier if he behaves behind bars. The judge said Weisselberg will have to pay nearly $2 million in taxes, penalties and interest and complete five years of probation.

The plea bargain also requires Weisselberg to testify truthfully as a prosecution witness when the Trump Organization goes on trial in October on related charges. The company is accused of helping Weisselberg and other executives avoid income taxes by failing to report their full compensation accurately to the government. Trump himself is not charged in the case.  

If Weisselberg fails to comply with the plea terms, prosecutors said they would seek a “significant state prison sentence,” and Merchan warned that he could be subject to the maximum punishment for the top charge — grand larceny — of 15 years.  

Trump, a Republican, has decried the New York investigations as a “political witch hunt” and has said his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime.

Since the traitor is not charged in the case, he will probably remain untouched by the law. Teflon Don, the con, expert at plausible deniability and tossing his associates under the bus. Nothing sticks to him except dollars he grifts from his flock. Don the con is probably mostly right to say that his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime.

Nothing sticks to Don the con