Which Trump Organization properties outside Westchester have county-recorded liens or judgments filed against them?
Executive summary
The New York Attorney General has formally registered the civil fraud judgment in Westchester County, effectively putting liens in place on properties there, but contemporaneous reporting shows no county-recorded judgments or liens from that New York judgment in other counties such as those where Mar-a-Lago, Doral or the Chicago hotel sit. The public-records reviews cited in national reporting identify Westchester filings only and note that the registration did not itself name specific assets [1] [2] [3].
1. What was actually filed and where: a Westchester registration, not an asset-by-asset list
State lawyers registered the roughly $454 million judgment with the Westchester County clerk’s office in early March, a move reporters characterized as creating the framework to place liens on Trump properties in that county, including the Trump National Golf Club Westchester and the 212-acre Seven Springs estate [2] [4] [5]. Multiple outlets report the clerk’s registration but emphasize the filing did not itself specify particular properties in the public entry — it served as the procedural step that allows the attorney general to pursue liens or seizures in Westchester if she chooses [2] [6].
2. What reporting shows about other counties: no county-recorded judgments found in key jurisdictions
A review of county records cited by CNN found that judgments had not been entered in Florida counties where Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach) and Trump National Doral (Miami) are located, nor in Cook County, Illinois, where the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is located, as of that review [3]. Multiple national outlets repeated that reporting: the only explicit county registration identified in the contemporaneous coverage was in Westchester [7] [8].
3. Conflicting claims and caveats in the reporting: “blanket lien” language versus procedural reality
Some later and less-detailed accounts framed the Westchester registration as a “blanket lien” touching many Trump-related entities and properties, or as effectively placing liens on all Trump-related properties in the county [9]. By contrast, Reuters, Bloomberg and other contemporaneous reporting underline that the registration was a legal step enabling lien actions but did not by itself effectuate property seizures or necessarily identify which specific parcels would be targeted [2] [5]. That distinction is important: registration enables enforcement actions, but additional court steps would be required to seize title to specific properties [3].
4. Why some properties outside Westchester may not show liens yet: corporate structure and procedure
Legal observers noted that Trump’s holdings are organized through many limited liability companies and trusts, which complicates executing a judgment against particular parcels because the judgment against an individual or entity does not always translate into an automatic, direct lien on property owned by separate legal entities [3]. Reporters explained that entering a judgment in a county is an initial creditor step; further motions, title searches and filings would follow before a property could be foreclosed or seized [3] [6].
5. Bottom line and limits of the record: Westchester only, as reported; no county judgments elsewhere identified
Based on the contemporaneous reporting in the provided sources, the only county-recorded registration tied to the Engoron judgment is Westchester County — and that registration is the step that allows liens to be sought there, not an immediate enumeration of seized assets [1] [2] [5]. CNN’s county-records checks specifically reported no entered judgments in Palm Beach, Miami or Cook County at the time of its review [3]. The available sources do not provide verified county-record filings outside Westchester; if further county-level filings were made elsewhere, they are not recorded in the set of reporting provided here.