What specific penalties and fines has the New York Attorney General imposed on the Trump Organization and which were upheld on appeal?
Executive summary
The New York Attorney General secured a February 2024 trial judgment that imposed sweeping remedies on Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and several executives — most notably a court-ordered monetary disgorgement in the mid‑hundreds of millions and a package of injunctive and corporate‑governance penalties — but an appellate panel in August 2025 voided the hefty money judgment while leaving liability and many non‑monetary sanctions intact [1] [2] [3].
1. The core monetary penalty the AG won — and the appeals court threw out
At trial Judge Arthur Engoron ordered disgorgement/monetary relief that the state and many news outlets described in various tallies as roughly $354 million at baseline that swelled with interest and penalties to more than $500 million; that civil money judgment was the centerpiece of the AG’s remedial scheme but the New York Appellate Division in August 2025 unanimously (as to liability) but divided on relief concluded the disgorgement was an “excessive fine” in violation of the Eighth Amendment and voided the monetary award [1] [2] [3].
2. Injunctive and business‑practice restrictions the AG obtained and the appeals court kept
Beyond money, the trial court imposed injunctive relief designed to curb the Trump Organization’s business practices — restraints the Attorney General framed as limiting the defendants’ ability to do business in New York — and the appellate panel affirmed those non‑monetary remedies, saying the AG acted within her authority and that the injunctive relief was appropriate to vindicate the public interest [4] [1] [5].
3. Officer‑and‑director bans: who was barred and what the appeals court said
Among the specific non‑monetary penalties the appeals court left intact were corporate governance bans: a multiyear bar on Donald Trump serving as an officer or director of any New York entity (reported as three years in some coverage) and two‑year bans on Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. from serving as directors or officers of New York companies — sanctions the Appellate Division expressly did not overturn [6] [3] [5].
4. Contempt and smaller fines: enforcement steps that survived appellate scrutiny
Separate from the fraud judgment, the court earlier fined Donald Trump $110,000 for contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas — an order that was held in escrow during appeals and that a three‑judge panel later affirmed — and the trial judge had also imposed smaller fines for violations of a gag order ($5,000 and $10,000 fines cited in reporting) [7].
5. Bond, stays and the practical status of collection while appeals continue
After the trial judgment the Appellate Division reduced a required bond from roughly $464 million to $175 million and stayed many of Engoron’s bans while appeals proceeded; Trump posted the bond and the financial collection was effectively on hold pending further appellate review, with the appeals court’s voiding of the disgorgement leaving only the injunctive measures and the established liability immediately enforceable in principle but subject to further review by New York’s highest court [7] [2] [5].
6. How the appeals ruling split remedies and the AG’s next move
Appellate justices repeatedly emphasized that they upheld the trial court’s core liability findings while rejecting the half‑billion dollar money penalty as constitutionally excessive, and Attorney General Letitia James announced she would seek review at the New York Court of Appeals to restore the monetary relief even as her office framed the decision as a partial vindication because the injunctive relief and liability findings remain in place [1] [4] [8].