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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...
Appellate courts in New York have repeatedly affirmed the state’s practice of elevating what would otherwise be misdemeanor falsifying-business-records convictions into felonies when the falsification...
did post a in his civil fraud case within the window set by the appellate court, filing the bond on April 2, 2024 after the gave him ten days to post a reduced undertaking of $175 million to stay enfo...
The Appellate Division vacated the large monetary penalty Judge Arthur Engoron imposed but left intact most of Engoron’s non‑monetary injunctive relief — including restrictions on who may run Trump’s ...
by removed the roughly half‑billion‑dollar monetary disgorgement ordered by , ruling the financial penalty “excessive” and therefore unenforceable while leaving intact the court’s fraud findings and s...
The available reporting and legal texts do not state a specific ongoing appellate disposition for any single “New York falsifying business records” conviction; instead, public sources summarize the st...
Donald Trump’s legal team filed a formal appeal on October 28, 2025, seeking to overturn his 34-count New York felony conviction from May 2024, arguing the trial was by improper evidence, judicial con...
A divided five‑judge panel of ’s Appellate Division affirmed key liability findings that and his companies engaged in but struck down the roughly $500–$527 million monetary penalty as excessive and un...
Two discrete sets of filings after April 2024 materially changed how ’s against could be enforced: first, a flurry of appellate orders that stayed key parts of the judgment and preserved the defendant...
Three principal judicial tracks remain to overturn or blunt ’s hush‑money conviction: a state‑court appeal to the (and potentially New York’s highest court), a bid to transfer or remove the case into ...
initially treated ’s factual findings as subject to serious scrutiny, pressing attorney general on the scope of her authority and the size and legal basis for the roughly $354–454 million penalty Engo...
New York courts measure disgorgement by attempting to identify and strip away ill-gotten gains—often by estimating the profits attributable to the wrongful conduct or by calculating victims’ losses—an...
A New York state judge originally ordered former President Donald Trump to pay roughly $354 million (later characterized with interest as part of a package exceeding $500 million) for civil business f...
Appellate courts in New York have generally sustained convictions that rest on a theory that a defendant intended to commit or conceal an unspecified “other crime,” holding that the People need not pr...
An appellate panel of New York judges in August 2025 tossed the roughly $350–$450 million monetary disgorgement that Judge Arthur Engoron had ordered against Donald Trump and related defendants, findi...