NEW: I am awaiting the beginning of Allen Weisselberg’s sentencing hearing following his recent plea to perjuring himself in connection with the NY Attorney General’s civil fraud trial. Weisselberg is here & dressed in athleisure. That matters because? 1/
It is often a sign that a defendant expects to go straight from sentencing to jail. 2/
Assuming Judge Laurie Peterson imposes the sentence contemplated in the plea agreement, Weisselberg will be sentenced to 5 months. The ADA, Gary Fishman, just said there’s no reason to deviate from that sentence. 3/
Asked whether he has anything to say, Weisselberg says only, “No, Your Honor.” And almost as quickly as it began, Weisselberg is cuffed and escorted out of the courtroom through a back entrance, on his way presumably to Rikers. 4/
All we are waiting for now is for Weisselberg’s lawyers, Seth Rosenberg and Thomas Rotko, to leave the courtroom. 5/
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