Trump Org's ex-CFO says Eric Trump will decide if he'll get his annual $500,000 bonus after his testimony in the criminal trial

• Allen Weisselberg is a former CFO of the Trump Organization.

• Weisselberg said that Eric Trump will decide if he gets a bonus.

• Weisselberg is the key witness in the tax fraud trial of Donald Trump's company

The Trump Organization's former top money man told a Manhattan jury that Eric Trump will decide if he gets this year's $500,000 bonus after he testifies in the company's criminal tax- fraud trial.

Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's ex-CFO and the prosecution's key witness in the high-profile New York Supreme Court trial, began testifying Tuesday.

He told the trial's mostly middle-class jurors that he'd been on paid leave since October.

Weisselberg said he didn't know if he would get his $500,000 bonus this year.

The bespectacled ex-CFO smiled as he sat at the witness stand.

He said he should learn about the trial in early January.

If you get that bonus, who decides? Susan Hoffinger was one of the two lead prosecutors.

Eric Trump, Donald Trump's son, has been running the company since his father left for Washington, DC, according to Weisselberg.

Are you talking about a few weeks after your testimony? The decision on that half-million-dollar bonus is imminent. Weisselberg said yes.

The top executives of the Trump Organization cheated on their income taxes for 15 years, according to prosecutors. If the company is found guilty of conspiracy and tax fraud, it will be fined up to $1.6 million.

In August, Weisselberg pleaded guilty to his role in the tax- dodge scheme.

Under the deal, Weisselberg admitted to masterminding the scheme and to pocketing $1.7 million in tax-free perks over 15 years, including Mercedes-Benz luxury cars for him and his wife.

He agreed to testify about his role in the scheme in exchange for a promise of five months in jail and $2 million in city and state taxes.

If prosecutors think he isn't telling the truth, they can ask the trial judge to sentence him to 15 years in prison.

Weisselberg wants to help his boss. The Brooklyn native introduced himself to the jury on Tuesday, saying that he has worked for the Trump family since 1973.

He started working for Donald Trump on the 25th and 26th floors of Trump Tower.

As they built the company together, Trump and Weisselberg spoke a lot.

He said that Trump had an open door policy.

He said they'd see him on a daily basis at Trump Tower.

He said it ran the gamut.

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