A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump to pony up $355 million in penalties for conspiring to manipulate his net worth in order to obtain more favorable interest rates. The Donald is also barred from doing business in New York state for three years. In his ruling, the judge wrote that Trump’s “complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.” https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1758587257496186888 From 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.
Read more at the New York Times. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1758592411222036893 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1758599704189817052
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