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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sometimes in life, you gotta go big, and nowhere goes bigger than Dubai. |
0:09.0 | A city-sized playground in a vast desert, where the tallest building in the world dwarfs |
0:14.8 | super-sized super-yats, and there's no end to high-end shops. |
0:21.6 | So go big, go bold, go beautiful, and fly to Dubai with Virgin Atlantic, book now. |
0:30.0 | This is Michael Popak, along with my colleague Karen Friedman Agnifalo-Legalai F reporting on breaking news, |
0:38.0 | concerning the sentencing hearing of Alan Weiselberg, former CFO long-time of the Trump Organization, |
0:46.0 | who cooperated, willingly or not, with the prosecutors in the Trump Organization criminal trial, |
0:55.0 | resulting in 17 felony convictions for tax evasion and other fraud. |
1:02.0 | Now it's time for him to pay the paper, the deal that was struck by the Manhattan DA's office, |
1:11.0 | and Weiselberg was that if he was a good witness, a good boy, |
1:15.0 | they would recommend a sentence of five months in Reikers Island, which is a terrible place to spend five months, |
1:22.0 | and five months in jail, in return for his testimony. |
1:26.0 | Now he's not out of the woods yet, they still could go after Alan Weiselberg for other issues, |
1:30.0 | other fraud, but for right now, today was sentencing day, and our Karen Friedman Agnifalo, |
1:37.0 | a former prosecutor, is not only reporting about it, she was in the courtroom live watching what happened. |
1:44.0 | Karen, tell us about it, we're eating popcorn. |
1:47.0 | It was really interesting, it was a packed courtroom, judge Juan Mershon was presiding over the sentencing, |
1:54.0 | he was the judge at the trial, and it was an agreed upon sentence, as you say, |
2:00.0 | which is normally sort of, you know, the judge, we recommended a certain amount, |
2:07.0 | this is an agreed upon sentencing, and the defendant shows up to court, and he just gets sentenced. |
2:13.0 | So it's usually not with any interesting or new information at these agreed upon sentencing, |
2:20.0 | when he starts to show, when the defendant shows up to be sentenced, but I have to say, |
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