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Judge fines Donald Trump more than $300 million, bars him from running businesses in N.Y. for three years
NBCNews ^ | 02/16/2024

Posted on 02/16/2024 12:11:50 PM PST by devane617

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 $364 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."

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: devane617

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nNdMLJm-2E


61 posted on 02/16/2024 12:26:21 PM PST by Sacajaweau (..)
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To: devane617

He and everyone involved with this circus should be tried and hanged for treason.


62 posted on 02/16/2024 12:27:47 PM PST by Kazan
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To: pierrem15; All

63 posted on 02/16/2024 12:27:56 PM PST by 4Liberty (My 2024 prediction: Biden will be 'eliminated' -- not Trump --and Deep State will suspend elections.)
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To: TheConservator
Nah, just git rid of the RATS who are runing it into the dirt.


64 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:04 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Scrambler Bob

It’s stupid. After he’s elected again, he can’t have anything to do with the Trump org... Just like last time. Geez...


65 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:25 PM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: devane617

Financial Lawfare added to the nearly 100 years Trump could be sent to jail based on all the Phoney Fani charges....

Madness.


66 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: devane617

Reminds me of the juries in ancient Greece. Often up to a thousand on the jury. When they found a man guilty they divided the fines up between themselves, so they always found the rich Guilty!


67 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:42 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: mass55th

There is an article today that the owners are tearing down the massive Penn Hotel in midtown due to lack of business and the owner will build tennis courts on the site. A harbinger of things to come for the rotten Apple.


69 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:59 PM PST by laconic
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To: Fido969

For starters, Alina Habba didn’t request a jury trial.


70 posted on 02/16/2024 12:29:10 PM PST by Coronal
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Will be overturned on appeal.

I wouldn't put money on that. America has turned into a 3rd world hellhole, supported by a corrupt judicial system.

71 posted on 02/16/2024 12:29:51 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: devane617

The fine is so large he might not be able to appeal within the NYS system which requires appellants to put up a bond for the full amount, especially since his holdings are being artificially devalued.


72 posted on 02/16/2024 12:30:00 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: devane617

It will be overturned.


73 posted on 02/16/2024 12:30:22 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: PGR88
The Gateway Pundit on X:
74 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:11 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Coronal

Because there was no option for a jury trial.


75 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:14 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Fido969

How did the lawyers let the case get this far?


They didn’t. The judge declared summary judgement while facts were still in dispute.


76 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:41 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: DallasBiff

“It will be overturned.”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Hopefully with some hefty retribution for those who concocted this judicial farce.


77 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:48 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: devane617

Outrageous.


78 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:54 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: devane617

“pay over $364 million in damages”

I’d like to know who gets the payment, since nobody was defrauded. The Trump organization borrowed money from a bank and paid it back.

So who exactly received damages?? Oh, right, Hillary Clinton and Roe vs Wade.


79 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:57 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: devane617

can someone describe just who was defrauded?


80 posted on 02/16/2024 12:33:17 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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