Baltimore woman killed in Glen Burnie car crash, police say
An 87-year-old woman from Baltimore was killed Friday in a two-vehicle crash in Glen Burnie, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department.
After running through a red light on Route 2, Mamie F. Johnson was hit by a 2020 Buick Envision turning left onto Mountain Road. She was transported to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Officers responded to the intersection where Mountain Road meets Route 2, or Ritchie Highway, at approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday, according to a news release.
Following a preliminary investigation, police determined Johnson was traveling north in her 2009 Chevrolet Malibu when she drove through the intersection. The southbound Buick had a green directional and was turning left onto Mountain Drive when it collided with the Malibu, police said.
County fire officials transported both the driver of the Buick and a passenger, aged 79 and 73, respectively, to an area hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
Police said the crash is being investigated by the department’s Traffic Safety Section.
NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump’s company, pleaded guilty Monday to lying under oath during his testimony in Trump’s New York civil fraud case. His plea deal will send him back to jail but does not require that he testify at Trump’s hush-money criminal trial.
Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty in state court in Manhattan to two counts of perjury and will be sentenced in April to five months in jail — his second stint behind bars after serving 100 days last year for dodging taxes on company perks.
In pleading guilty, Weisselberg was caught again between the law and his loyalty to Trump, whose family employed him for nearly 50 years and sent him into retirement with a $2 million severance. His plea to perjury is further evidence that, rather than testify truthfully in a way that might harm his old boss, he was willing to again spend a chunk of his golden years in jail.
“It is a crime to lie in depositions and at trial — plain and simple,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said in a statement.
Weisselberg’s plea agreement does not require him to cooperate or testify at the hush-money trial, scheduled to begin March 25.
Prosecutors promised not to prosecute him for other crimes he might have committed in connection with his employment at the Trump Organization.
In court Monday, Weisselberg admitted lying under oath on three occasions while testifying in a lawsuit brought against Trump by New York Attorney General Letitia James — in deposition testimony in July 2020 and May 2023 and on the witness
Former Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg attends a hearing Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City. stand at the trial last October.
To avoid violating his probation in the tax case, he agreed to plead guilty only to charges related to his 2020 testimony.
“Allen Weisselberg looks forward to putting this situation behind him,” his lawyer Seth Rosenberg said in a statement.
Weisselberg surrendered to the D.A.’s office Monday morning and entered court in handcuffs and a mask. He admitted lying when he testified he had little knowledge or awareness of how Trump’s Manhattan penthouse came to be valued on his financial statements at three times its actual size.
“You knew that testimony was false?” Judge Laurie Petersen asked Weisselberg on Monday.
“Yes,” Weisselberg replied. Weisselberg will be formally sentenced April 10. In agreeing to a five-month sentence, prosecutors cited Weisselberg’s age and willingness to admit wrongdoing. In New York, perjury is a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The judge in the civil fraud case ruled last month that Trump, Weisselberg and others schemed to deceive banks, insurers and others by lying about Trump’s wealth on financial statements used to make deals and secure loans.
Along with penalizing Trump $455 million, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Weisselberg to pay $1 million — the amount of severance he has received so far. They are appealing.
In his decision, Engoron wrote that he found Weisselberg’s testimony “intentionally evasive, with large gaps of ‘I don’t remember.’ ”
The judge wrote that Weisselberg’s severance agreement “renders his testimony highly unreliable” because it bars him from voluntarily cooperating with law enforcement.
“The Trump Organization keeps Weisselberg on a short leash, and it shows,” Engoron wrote.
Trump’s Manhattan penthouse was valued on his financial statements from at least 2012 to 2016 as though it measured 30,000 square feet, nearly three times its actual size.
Kevin Sneddon, a former managing director of Trump’s real estate brokerage arm, testified that Weisselberg provided the larger figure.
Sneddon recalled Weisselberg asking him in 2012 to calculate the triplex’s value. He said when he asked for its size, Weisselberg replied: “It’s quite large. I think it’s around 30,000 square feet.”