Which ongoing criminal cases name Trump or his companies and what remedies (fines, forfeiture, injunctions) do prosecutors seek in each?
Executive summary
Public reporting shows a shifting patchwork of criminal and civil matters that have at times named Donald J. Trump personally and his businesses, but reporters and litigation trackers stress that many high-profile matters have been dismissed, remanded, or recharacterized—and the precise list of “ongoing criminal cases” that currently name Trump or his companies is not exhaustively catalogued in the provided sources [1] [2] [3]. The remedies prosecutors have sought across those matters range from traditional criminal penalties to broader civil measures that could threaten Trump’s business interests, yet public reporting here frequently emphasizes case dispositions and procedural fights rather than a single, consistent slate of active remedies [1] [3].
1. The landscape: multiple trackers, many entries but fluid status
Independent trackers such as Lawfare and Just Security maintain active litigation lists that include criminal prosecutions connected to the Trump administration and to Donald Trump personally, yet those resources present numerous entries, appeals and remands rather than a single, static set of live criminal prosecutions against Trump or his companies [4] [5]. Lawfare’s series and Just Security’s tracker document that cases have been dismissed, remanded, or otherwise altered following the 2024 election and subsequent legal rulings, making the inventory of “ongoing criminal cases” at any moment contingent on recent court activity [2] [5].
2. Georgia election interference: charged, later dropped, and now a separate fee fight
The Fulton County racketeering-style indictment that once named Trump as a defendant for his role in alleged efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 results was publicly dropped in November after procedural upheaval, and Trump has turned the dispute into a fee motion seeking reimbursement of more than $6.2 million from Georgia prosecutors under a new state law after the local district attorney, Fani Willis, was disqualified from the case [6]. Reporting indicates Willis was disqualified over an “appearance of impropriety” tied to her relationship with a special prosecutor, and that procedural ruling reshaped the case’s status—transforming a once-active criminal prosecution into a contested post-dismissal fight over costs and prosecutorial conduct [6].
3. Federal indictments and grand juries: dismissals, remands, and evolving status
Several federal matters that previously named Trump—most notably the classified documents and Jan. 6–related prosecutions—have seen major procedural developments: Lawfare recounts that after Trump’s 2024 election victory two federal cases were dismissed and that Judge Chutkan granted the government’s unopposed motion to dismiss in the Section 3 matter, while reporting also notes remands and immunity questions that altered trial timetables earlier [2]. POLITICO and other outlets emphasize the renewed prominence of grand juries and prosecutorial forum choices in 2025–26, but the provided sources do not offer a definitive, current list of active federal criminal cases still naming Trump or his companies as of January 2026 [7].
4. Civil suits that threaten business structures and the remedies prosecutors seek
Press coverage has long noted a separate New York civil action brought by state authorities that “threatens the future of the real estate empire” associated with Trump, and that civil litigation seeks business-focused remedies distinct from criminal penalties—though the specific remedies (dissolution, fines, restitution, or officer bans) are described in summary rather than enumerated in the excerpts provided here [1]. Lawfare and Just Security trackers include the New York civil enforcement context among the cases to watch, but the sources supplied do not specify precise requested orders in that civil suit within these snippets [2] [3].
5. What prosecutors have sought — and the limits of the record in these sources
Across the reported matters, prosecutors in criminal cases have sought traditional criminal sanctions and convictions, while state civil enforcement actions have sought remedies aimed at corporate governance and financial penalties; in Georgia’s sequence the novel after-effect is Trump’s push to recover attorney fees from prosecutors [6] [1]. However, the provided reporting prioritizes case developments—indictments, dismissals, disqualifications and remands—and the trackers do not supply a fully current, itemized roster in these excerpts of every “ongoing criminal case” that still formally names Trump or his companies, nor do they list every remedy sought in each matter in detail [4] [5] [2]. Where the record here is silent or high-level, that silence is acknowledged rather than filled with extrapolation.