Trump exec Allen Weisselberg heads straight for ‘Torture Island’ to serve 5-month sentence where inmates ‘died in filth’

DONALD Trump's former trustee, Allen Weisselberg, will once again return to New York's Rikers Island prison complex - his second stint at the notorious jail in two years.

A judge in Manhattan sentenced Weisselberg to five months in prison for lying under oath during the civil business fraud trial of Trump last year.

On March 4, Weisselberg admitted to lying during his testimony in the civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against the former president and his business associates last year.

Weisselberg, 76, falsely testified that he was not involved in the valuation of Trump's Manhattan townhouse, which was exaggerated in size on the former president's financial records in 2015 and 2016.

On paper, the unit was valued at $327 million based on its stated size of more than 30,000 square feet.

However, internal documents stated the townhouse was nearly three times its actual size of 10,996 square feet, and was valued at $117 million.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought the charges against Weisselberg, saying the 76-year-old's emails showed he was, in fact, aware of the unit's actual size.

Weisselberg declined to speak before the judge on Wednesday before he was ordered to be transported directly to the notorious prison complex that's been dubbed "Torture Island."

The longtime Trump trustee was escorted out of the courtroom in a black tracksuit.

Rikers Island's inhumane housing conditions have been plagued by crime, violence, and corruption, creating a "culture of abuse" in recent years.

SECOND STINT IN HELL

For Weisselberg, it will be his second stint at the infamous jailhouse in two years.

He served three months in 2023 after he admitted to running a decade-long payroll tax scam as the CFO of the Trump Organization.

Weisselberg was the only person charged in the Manhattan district attorney's three-year probe of the former president and his business practices.

The 76-year-old con man served three months in Rikers Island, a prison complex at the center of human rights violations in recent years.

Craig Rothfeld, a prison consultant Weisselberg hired to advise him on his sentence last year, previously said the 76-year-old's time "won't be easy."

"Rikers is already hard on a 20-year-old. Generally speaking, someone in their '70s will have added challenges," he told Insider in 2023.

After pleading guilty to 15 counts of tax fraud in August 2022, Weisselberg agreed to testify against the Trump Organization at trial as part of his plea deal.

Weiseelberg testified for three days, giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the former president's real estate empire.

TORTURE ISLAND

Rikers Island, which has been described as a "scene of a humanitarian crisis," has been swarmed in recent years by violence, inmate deaths, and staggering staffing shortages.

Most of the men and women held at Rikers are there on pre-trial, meaning they have not been convicted of crimes and are awaiting hearings on the disposition of their cases.

However, harrowing photos from inside the prison complex show the cruel conditions detainees are forced to live under.

Photos obtained by Gothamist in September 2022 show a man defecating in his shorts due to a lack of toilets in the intake area.

The detainee was left in his soiled clothes for 11 hours until another incarcerated person, not jail staff, brought him new clothes, the outlet reported.

Other images depicted individuals caged in tiny showers for up to 24 hours, sleeping on smeared floors, and attempting chest compressions on the seriously ill because no medical care was available.

Last year, 19 detainees died while under the custody of the Department of Correction, making the deadline year for New York's prison system in nearly a decade.

Board of Correction staff found that staffing and supplies issues lead to “horrible conditions,” with many inmates living in filth and not “receiving recreation or meals on a regular schedule.”

The conditions are so severe that in 2021, an inmate tried to hang himself during a politician visit, The New York Post previously reported.

CORRUPTION AMONG CORRECTION OFFICERS

An undercover operation overseen by the New York Department of Investigations in 2015 led to the arrest of nearly 30 corrections employees on charges of smuggling contraband.

The probe found that flaws in the uniform of correction officers contributed to the flow of contraband into Rikers.

Posing as a correction officer on six different occasions, an investigator successfully made it through checkpoints with vodka contained in a water bottle, a razor blade, 250 glassine envelopes of heroin, and a half pound of marijuana.

Investigators found that officers will stick the contraband in their cargo pants or inside their bullet-proof vests or brassiere.

Correction officers like to wear cargo pants because of the comfort and the useful extra pockets.

The Department of Investigation convinced the Correction Department to ban cargo pants due to concerns over smuggling; however, Correction Commissioner Louis Molina lifted the ban in 2022.

In one case, an officer brought in Ciroc coconut-flavored vodka in Poland Spring bottles, and in another, investigators found Hennessy cognac in Arizona Iced Tea bottles.

More evidence of correction officers' corruption at Rikers was revealed during the trial of inmate James Albert, 46, who was convicted of bribing officials to smuggle drugs into the prison complex.

Between February and June 2019, while housed in the George R. Vierno Center in Rikers, Albert orchestrated a scheme to bribe at least two officers to bring marijuana, suboxone strips, and other contraband into his unit for sale and distribution to other inmates.