Trump must pay $110,000 fine, meet other conditions to purge contempt, judge says

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

May 11, 2022
12:45 PM EDT
Last Updated 40 min ago

Trump must pay $110,000 fine, meet other conditions to purge contempt, judge says

By Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen

NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump must pay a $110,000 fine to the New York state attorney and meet other conditions to purge a contempt of court order for his failure to comply with a subpoena in a civil probe into his business practices, a judge said on Wednesday.

The judge, Arthur Engoron, told a virtual hearing that a $10,000-per-day fine he imposed on Trump in late April stopped accruing on Friday, when Trump and his lawyers filed new affidavits detailing steps they took to find documents relevant to Attorney General Letitia James' investigation.

Trump has said he does not have any relevant files, a claim Engoron said last month he found surprising.

The judge gave Trump until May 20 to comply with additional conditions, which include submitting affidavits from his personal assistant and others familiar with his record-keeping practices, and the completion of a report by a third-party firm hired to search the Trump Organization's records.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-must-pay-110000-fine-meet-other-conditions-purge-contempt-judge-says-2022-05-11/

[SoonerPride]

1. He always gets special treatment.

Always.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Seems like a warrant to seize his phone and his assistant's laptop would be in order. Nt

[Takket]

3. They had months to produce the documents

That is why the fine went in place. Fine should stay until the documents show up

[Windy City Charlie]

4. Problem is

Problem is, you're talking about a guy who doesn't pay his bills. This means nothing to him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Good

[sarcasmo]

6. Trump claims he has no Trump org cell phones. LMFAO

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/politics/trump-contempt-fines-cell-phone/index.html

[bif]

7. Maybe he can get Russia to pay it!

Just a thought.

[Botany]

8. I'm getting the awful feeling that nothing will ever happen to Trump.

The DoJ let the time expire on his 10 obstruction charges having to do with Trump and Russia from
the the Mueller investigation and now Trump gets a pass on his $10,000 per day fine on not complying
with a court order in NY State?