Judge fines Donald Trump more than $360 million, bars him from running businesses in N.Y. for three years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : Trump maintained during the trial the property was worth much, much more.
49% : 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.
41% : The months-long civil trial included testimony from Trump and his oldest children.
39% : Among the examples cited as fraud by the attorney general's office during the trial was Trump valuing his triplex home in Trump Tower in New York City at three times its actual size and value, as well as including a brand value to increase the valuation of his golf courses on the financial statements, which explicitly said brand values were not included.
39% : So I don't know how you got those numbers," Trump testified, adding later that he thinks it's actually worth "between a billion and a billion five.
37% : "James' investigation into the former president's business began in 2019 as a result of congressional testimony from his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who told the House Oversight Committee that Trump would improperly expand and shrink values to fit whatever his business needs were.
36% : 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.
34% : Trump had also fraudulently puffed up the value of the property by saying it was a private residence, despite having signed an agreement that it could only be used as a social club to lower his tax burden.
34% : James filed a suit seeking $250 million in damages from Trump in 2022, and the judge appointed a monitor to oversee the company's finances that November.
31% : Judge fines Donald Trump more than $360 million, bars him from running businesses in N.Y. for three yearsAdam
28% : "He said I was a fraud before he knew anything about me, nothing about me," Trump said.
24% : ""This is a case that should have never been brought, and I think we should be entitled to damages," Trump told reporters when he attended closing arguments in the case on Jan. 11.
21% : "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.
21% : In a summary judgment ruling the week before the trial started, Engoron found Trump and his executives had repeatedly engaged in fraud.
19% : "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.
19% : "Trump had maintained his financial statements were conservative, and has called the AG's allegations politically motivated and a "fraud on me.
19% : "The order, which Trump is appealing, held that Trump's business certificates in New York should be canceled.
15% : Reiss and Dareh GregorianFebruary 16, 2024 at 9:05 PMThe judge who presided over a civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump and his company has issued his decision in the case.
15% : 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.
14% : Trump complained about that ruling on the witness stand.

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