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No, during Donald Trump’s first term (2017–2021) there is no record in the provided reporting of a subpoena directed at Trump personally being enforced by law‑enforcement or of a court holding a sitti...
Three strands of reporting converge on lender disputes involving the Trump Organization — New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud case alleging that the company deceived banks and insure...
Donald Trump’s tax returns and related financial records revealed patterns of , but they did not produce a single unambiguous, universally accepted finding of personal criminality in the returns thems...
A New York state judge’s civil-fraud judgment threatened seizure of Trump Organization assets because defendants were required to post a bond or risk enforcement of the roughly $454 million judgment; ...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not show Ivanka Trump testifying in court filings that she or anyone else told of sexual abuse by Donald Trump; coverage instead centers on other witne...
Donald Trump bought Mar‑a‑Lago in 1985 and carried out extensive renovations over decades — including adding a large ballroom and reworking interiors — while binding the estate with a preservation eas...
Judge Arthur Engoron justified ordering Ivanka Trump to testify by finding that she “clearly availed herself of the privilege of doing business in New York,” that she retained property interests and b...
A New York Appellate Division panel affirmed that Donald Trump and his companies were liable for civil business fraud but vacated Judge Arthur Engoron’s nearly half‑billion‑dollar disgorgement as an u...
Judge Arthur Engoron identified and quantified overvalued assets by leaning on documentary evidence assembled by the New York Attorney General (OAG), comparing those internal Statements of Financial C...
No Trump properties have been seized to pay the New York civil fraud judgment as of the latest reporting; New York Attorney General Letitia James has said she will move to seize assets if the nearly $...
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 ...
In 2023 a string of civil rulings required Donald Trump, his companies or affiliates to make large payments or face collection — most notably a $5 million jury award to writer E. Jean Carroll, a New Y...
The interplay of judge Arthur Engoron’s findings, subsequent appellate moves, and court-appointed monitors shifted the practical leverage among lenders by increasing judicial control over enforcement ...
A recent stretch of court decisions ended Donald Trump’s bid to block Justice Department access to documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, effectively returning control of the FBI’s seized materials to invest...
New York Attorney General Letitia James registered civil-fraud judgments in the Westchester County Clerk’s judgments-and-liens index on March 6, 2024, listing entries against Donald J. Trump, the Trum...
The Trump defendants appealed Judge Arthur Engoron’s February 2024 civil fraud judgment and financial disgorgement order, triggering a stay of some enforcement while appeals proceeded; the New York Ap...
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 moneta...
A series of civil judgments and court orders in New York put Donald Trump and his companies at real risk of asset seizure beginning in 2024, but the enforcement timeline was repeatedly interrupted by ...
The New York civil fraud ruling found that Donald Trump and related defendants issued false and misleading Statements of Financial Condition across years, a legal finding that forced immediate court s...
Several high‑profile civil suits against Donald J. Trump have been decided by judges or juries after trials rather than ending in pretrial settlements; the most consequential are New York Attorney Gen...