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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...