Weisselberg was charged with more than a dozen crimes when indicted last year, including grand theft and criminal tax fraud. Before the indictment, a person familiar with the Trump finance investigation had said prosecutors hoped to convince Weisselberg to testify against the former president as part of a deal that would reduce his own legal peril.
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. There will be a hearing in the case on Thursday.
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization were indicted last year in a case alleging a plot to evade taxes by hiding executive pay. Prosecutors called it “a sweeping and daring illegal payment scheme,” while Trump and his lawyers attacked the case as politically motivated. Weisselberg and the company had pleaded innocent.
News of a possible deal in his case came as ongoing investigations into Trump continued to dominate the headlines. A week earlier, as Trump was preparing to be impeached in New York in a civil investigation into his company, FBI agents searched his South Florida club looking for government documents and got away with nearly a dozen sets of classified or top secret. material.
The Justice Department’s criminal investigation into attempts to reverse the 2020 election is examining his actions as part of that effort. And in Georgia, prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation into attempts to reverse the election have said former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as Trump’s attorney, is the target of that investigation, his attorney said. Monday.
In Manhattan, District Attorney Alvin Bragg is under pressure over his office’s lengthy investigation into Trump.
Two key prosecutors implicated in the case suddenly dropped out in February because they had not been cleared to press charges against the former president, while a grand jury convened to hear evidence against him was scheduled to be released in the spring. are expired.
