The judge who presided over a civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump and his company has issued his decision in the case.
Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the former president and the Trump Organization to pay over $350 million in damages, and bars Trump "from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years."
He also continued "the appointment of an Independent Monitor" and ordered "the installation of an Independent Director of Compliance" for the company.
The judgment is the second this year against Trump after he was hit last month with an $83.3 million verdict in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against him. The former president could also face four criminal trials this year as his presidential campaign barrels toward the November election, with the first set to begin in New York state court on March 25th.
New York Attorney General Letitia James had been seeking $370 million from Trump, his company and its top executives, including his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, alleging "repeated and persistent fraud" that included falsifying business records and financial statements. James had argued those financial statements were at times exaggerated by as much as $2.2 billion.
Trump repeatedly complained about Engoron before and throughout the trial, and the judge slapped him with a partial gag order after he started blasting the judge's law clerk as well. Trump's complaints led to a flood of death threats against the clerk, as well as Engoron, court officials said, and Trump was fined $15,000 for twice violating the order.
Donald Trump: meet Lady Justice.
You finally met your match.
@HouseYakRepublican3mos3MO
Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would ever found or incorporate a business in a blue state. Or live in one. I will never do either for the rest of my life.
@WildfowlFredLibertarian3mos3MO
It’s actually brilliant and intentional. They want everything to be government-run in blue states. They push out those who won’t conform to the system, then run everything else like a mafia. It’s like a government-sanctioned mafia.
@HouseYakRepublican3mos3MO
Exactly why liberals are moving to red states and bringing their wacko politics with them. Mad at the blue state & their taxes so they go somewhere else. But they take their voting habits with them...
@FerretAlexRepublican3mos3MO
This is a case with zero victims, all loans were repaid, and the banks even testified in defense of Trump Hotels.
If you own a business in New York, flee.
@JerkyMiaLibertarian3mos3MO
This is just more nonsense from activist judges.
Delaware just lost Elon Musk and now New York is losing President Trump.
The TDS from these Democrats just continues to destroy their cities and states.
This judgement also proves that Trump was right once again.
@CabinetSkylarRepublican3mos3MO
Such absolute BS. I hope he appeals appeals appeals and I hope this judge, this corrupt, biased, unlawful, unconstitutional judge, faces true justice (and karma) in this lifetime.
@FerretAlexRepublican3mos3MO
They really don't want him to run again.
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