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has not been seized; courts have entered judgments that allow ’s attorney general to pursue seizure if collection proceeds, but an appeals court pause and bond requirement have so far prevented any ac...
No major Trump-owned buildings—such as Trump Tower or 40 Wall Street—have been taken into government custody and sold off under the New York civil fraud judgment; New York Attorney General Letitia Jam...
Since 2024, ICE activity under the Trump administration has shown a clear geographic and tactical split: in Republican-led states and jurisdictions federal enforcement has leaned on arrests inside det...
Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted of sexual assault or rape in the sources provided, but a New York jury found him civilly liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll and ordered $...
Donald Trump faces a roughly $454 million civil judgment in New York and New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has filed judgments that enable seizure proceedings if he does not post a bond,...
An anonymous plaintiff using the name “Katie Johnson” filed a federal complaint in April 2016 alleging she was lured to Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home and raped there by Epstein and Donald Trump when...
Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 felony counts — all for falsifying business records in the New York hush‑money case — and was sentenced to an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025, meaning...
Melania Trump is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Slovenia and obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006, and she continues to hold Slovenian citizenship according to public reporting . Her naturali...
Estimates for the fiscal “cost” of illegal immigration in 2024 diverge sharply because analysts measure different things (gross spending, net cost after taxes, federal vs. state/local impacts, and sho...
Multiple news outlets and online commentators reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke behind a podium or banner reading “One Of Ours. All Of Yours” during a Jan. 8, 2026 briefing i...
Publicly available reporting and agency statements document a large nationwide increase in ICE personnel since 2024–2025, and they point to concentrated enforcement activity in a handful of states — c...
civil judgment requires to cover roughly $454 million for civil fraud damages and interest, and has signaled she may begin if he does not post required security — but as of the latest reporting the ph...
Senator Chuck Schumer—then a New York member of the House—voted for the Anti‑Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which included the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement provisions that expanded U.S. authority to prosecu...
has been criminally convicted once: a jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records tied to payments made during the 2016 campaign, a verdict reached on May 30, 2024 . That convict...
Seven House Democrats broke with most of their party to vote for the spending bill — a measure that keeps roughly flat and includes about $10 billion for -and-customs-enforcement">Immigration and Cust...
Yes: under U.S. law ICE is a federal law enforcement agency and many ICE personnel are sworn federal law enforcement officers with statutory authorities; however, ICE officers are not the same as loca...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that presidents receive broad immunity for certain official acts — absolute immunity for core presidential functions and at least presumptive immunity ...
No Trump-owned real estate has been physically seized or sold as a result of the New York civil fraud judgment to date; New York’s attorney general has filed judgments and outlined the path to seize a...
Two active civil matters are driving the real-world threat of freezing or seizing Donald J. Trump’s assets: New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump an...
As of the timelines covered in the provided reporting, Donald Trump has one criminal conviction — 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan “hush‑money” case — and that conviction has ...