BREAKING: Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in jail on Tuesday. But not just any jail—he's serving on Rikers Island. Don't drop the soap.
Nearly five months at a dilapidated New York City island jail notorious for its frigidly cold cells and violent inmates are what await Allen Weisselberg, once the chief financial officer at former President Donald Trump’s corporate empire and now a convicted tax cheat.
Weisselberg avoided what could have been a longer sentence when he struck a plea deal with New York County prosecutors and agreed to testify against the company, which was itselfin December. The company is set to be sentenced this Friday and punished with monetary fines. The conditions are so dire that human rights activists have been actively trying to close down the jail for years. And a detainee lawsuit that led to a landmark settlement with the city that placed a federal monitor in charge of improving the dire conditions there has amounted to nothing.
Last year, a shocking 19 inmates killed themselves at the jail, and human rights advocates point to the difficult time they spend in densely crowded holding pens. Last month, Kevin Bryan endured 23 hours that forced him to sleep on the floor. He hanged himself upon arriving at his housing center. “If he’s mixed with detainees, a lot of the problem is that the housing gets overturned so often. There tend to be more fights. Someone is always trying to assert dominance. When I was there, there was a large gang element. The guards ask you, ‘Do you identify with one gang or another?’ So it doesn’t cause drama,” Nguyen said. “They’ll put him anywhere.”
Nguyen recalled how he wore five pairs of underwear on his way in and layered several socks over his feet, which made it difficult to keep his shoes on—not that he kept the shoes anyway. Rikers issues shoes to inmates, but popular sizes disappear quickly, so some inmates get stuck wearing what Nguyen called oversized “clown shoes” for months.
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