Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million in NY Civil Fraud Trial Ruling
Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess, reporting for The New York Times:
The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron caps a chaotic,
yearslong case in which New York’s attorney general put Mr.
Trump’s fantastical claims of wealth on trial. With no jury, the
power was in Justice Engoron’s hands alone, and he came down hard:
The judge delivered a sweeping array of punishments that threatens
the former president’s business empire as he simultaneously
contends with four criminal prosecutions and seeks to regain the
White House.
Not only did Justice Engoron impose a three-year ban preventing
Mr. Trump from serving in top roles at any New York company,
including his own, but the judge also applied that punishment to
the former president’s adult sons for two years and ordered that
they pay more than $4 million each. One of the sons, Eric Trump,
is the Trump Organization’s de facto chief executive, and the
ruling throws into doubt whether any member of the family can run
the business in the near term.
In his unconventional style, Justice Engoron criticized Mr. Trump
and the other defendants for refusing to admit errors for years.
“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on
pathological,” he said.
Trump’s social media feed today is chock full of dozens of (totally sane, rational, well-reasoned) comments on this court decision, without a single word regarding Russian political prisoner and Putin critic/rival Alexei Navalny’s death in a Siberian prison. But he did make time to mention that he’ll be at Sneakercon here in Philly tomorrow.
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Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess, reporting for The New York Times:
The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron caps a chaotic,
yearslong case in which New York’s attorney general put Mr.
Trump’s fantastical claims of wealth on trial. With no jury, the
power was in Justice Engoron’s hands alone, and he came down hard:
The judge delivered a sweeping array of punishments that threatens
the former president’s business empire as he simultaneously
contends with four criminal prosecutions and seeks to regain the
White House.
Not only did Justice Engoron impose a three-year ban preventing
Mr. Trump from serving in top roles at any New York company,
including his own, but the judge also applied that punishment to
the former president’s adult sons for two years and ordered that
they pay more than $4 million each. One of the sons, Eric Trump,
is the Trump Organization’s de facto chief executive, and the
ruling throws into doubt whether any member of the family can run
the business in the near term.
In his unconventional style, Justice Engoron criticized Mr. Trump
and the other defendants for refusing to admit errors for years.
“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on
pathological,” he said.
Trump’s social media feed today is chock full of dozens of (totally sane, rational, well-reasoned) comments on this court decision, without a single word regarding Russian political prisoner and Putin critic/rival Alexei Navalny’s death in a Siberian prison. But he did make time to mention that he’ll be at Sneakercon here in Philly tomorrow.