Judge Holds Trump in Contempt Over Documents in New York A.G.'s Inquiry

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

A New York judge on Monday held Donald J. Trump in contempt of court for failing to turn over documents to the state’s attorney general, an extraordinary rebuke of the former president.

The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, ordered Mr. Trump to comply with a subpoena seeking records and assessed a fine of $10,000 per day until he satisfies the court’s requirements. In essence, the judge concluded that Mr. Trump had failed to cooperate with the attorney general, Letitia James, and follow the court’s orders.

“Mr. Trump: I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously,” Justice Engoron remarked, before holding Mr. Trump in contempt and banging his gavel. The ruling represents a significant victory for Ms. James, whose office is conducting a civil investigation into whether Mr. Trump falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements.

In January, Ms. James, a Democrat, said her office had concluded that the Trump Organization had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices involving the statements. But she said she would continue to investigate before deciding whether to sue Mr. Trump or his company. Although Ms. James does not have the authority to file criminal charges, her civil inquiry is running parallel to a criminal investigation led by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who is examining some of the same conduct.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/nyregion/trump-investigation-letitia-james-contempt.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Ignore, appeal, whine on social media and Fox. The Pig's SOP.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Judge holds former President Trump in civil contempt for failing to comply with document subpoena

I self-deleted my LBN post on this when I saw this thread.

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/trump-contempt-hearing/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2022-04-25T16%3A48%3A16&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_medium=social

New York judge is holding Donald Trump in civil contempt after the state's attorney general's office said he did not comply with a subpoena for documents as part of its investigation into the former President's company.

Judge Arthur Engoron said Trump failed to abide by his order to comply with the subpoena, and that his attorneys failed to show how a search of materials held by Trump was conducted. Engoron said Trump would be fined $10,000 a day until he complies.

"Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously and I take mine seriously. I hereby hold you in civil contempt and fine you $10,000 per day until you purge that contempt," Engoron said at a hearing Monday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has been investigating the Trump Organization for more than two years and previously said her office found multiple misleading or fraudulent misstatements and omissions in the Trump Organization's financial statements, which were provided to lenders and insurers, among others, as part of its investigation.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. As I have learned over the years with LBN

you have to be FAST!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. LOL

I had a repair person in the house and was paying him which delayed me

[BumRushDaShow]

38. ...

The NYT breaking banner popped up on the iPad that I have on a little mount next to my laptop and away I went...

[Trueblue1968]

54. the pig ..... trump is a sick, mean evil man who belongs with satan in hell.

[Cha]

56. Rt TY!

💙💛

[dchill]

3. Never in the history of the world has anyone...

...been treated so unfairly!

Not sarcasm!! I BELIEVE this!!

[PatSeg]

31. I know, I know, it is a disgrace!

[calimary]

46. Unfairly lopsided, that is.

Never in the history of the world has a single selfish, lazy, devious, myopic miscreant gotten away with so much icky business over so many decades!

It IS unfair! MASSIVELY so! And massively unfair to ALL the rest of us (especially all those of us who seek Justice and the thorough, all-encompassing, and preferably PERMANENT correction of bad behavior - with the required trial, conviction, and years of required incarceration)!

[iluvtennis]

66. +++ agree. n/t

[Emile]

4. We needed this judge in the Marjorie Taylor Greene disposition.

[iluvtennis]

5. $10,000 per day fine until he turns over the documents - Bravo.

[KS Toronado]

14. He'll never pay it

his MO is to delay & fight everything in court. Hope the fines add up so quickly
that the State seizes _rump Tower from him for nonpayment.

[KS Toronado]

19. And rename it Obama Tower

That oughta burn his ass.

[oldsoftie]

28. I'd bet trump doesnt OWN trump tower. A BUSINESS does.

And I don't know if a judge can put a lien on something thats not personally owned.
I HOPE he can!!

[pnwmom]

65. Last I heard his property was in a sole proprietorship, not a corporation,

which would mean he was personally liable.

[oldsoftie]

68. If thats the case, he really IS dumb as a sack of hammers. nt

[Mr.Bill]

30. Trump Tower is mortgaged to the hilt.

Trump doesn't own it.

[agingdem]

40. He'll pay it

but not out of his own pocket…he’ll scam his faithful followers

[Trueblue1968]

57. he won't have a choice. NY will seize the money and maybe put him in the SLAMMER !!!!

[moreland01]

60. Seize what money?

Like most real estate developers, trump is property-debt rich and cash poor. They can't seize promises, lies, inflated values, etc.

[Trueblue1968]

71. how do you know. do you have access to his bank accounts?

[PSPS]

6. Big deal. They'll appeal, delay, etc. Nothing will come of this. They'll all skate.

I guess they can "convict" him posthumously in 50 years or so.

[gab13by13]

11. They already appealed,

he was supposed to turn over the documents a month and a half ago. This is it for Trump, of course, it is Trump.

There are plenty of American oligarchs who will pay the fine.

[scipan]

17. That's wonderful news.

Finally, some accountability.

[Escurumbele]

34. He is going to start a gofundme to pay his legal bills and a lot of stupid people will give him

money they don't have...

[tikka]

41. He already has one - the Republican National Committee

[bluestarone]

7. No deals from now on $10,000 per day

Make him pay every penny!

[PatSeg]

32. I wonder what the repercussions are

if he doesn't pay the fine. Could he be arrested?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. From NY AG James

Link to tweet

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. Trump never pays his bills

So, I don't see how fines will compel his compliance. Only a jail cell will do that.

[gab13by13]

13. There are plenty of people who will pay his fine.

10k per day is chicken feed for oligarchs.

[JudyM]

10. Hopefully this will add fuel to the various prosecuting bodies' fire.

Get this deplorable, greedy, lying, depraved, Democracy-soiling traitor.

[Roc2020]

12. I hope money is no issue for him

because that's 3.5 million a year. I guess whatever he has to hide is worth it

[pnwmom]

23. Even if he only has 100 million (as supposed to the billions he claims), 3.6 million is chump change

Well worth it, if it keeps him from having to hand over documents before the R's take over Congress or the Presidency.

[Justice matters.]

45. GQPs can't take over New York State unless they install a despot in DC...

[pnwmom]

64. This is a civil trial so they can't put him in prison. nt

[Auggie]

15. Screw the fine. Jail the S.O.B.

[SheltieLover]

16. Kicking for visibility

[JohnSJ]

18. So what are they going to do if he ignores it? Fine him? Arrest him? I am not going to hold my

breath

[Cozmo]

20. Trump can always declare bankruptcy, AGAIN!

[lambchopp59]

21. Even if this goes nowhere, there's a satisfaction

In national media outlets finally unabashedly labeling TFStooge as a CRIMINAL.
After dozens of crowd incitements to "lock her up".
After bragging about sexually assaulting women because he's above any shred of decency aside from above the law.
After "I could shoot someone on the street".
After so many of the cult claiming some heavenly diety ordination to be president.
I can't repeat it enough:
Trump is a CRINIMAL. A con artist and CRIMINAL. A disgusting low life scumbucket CRIMINAL. A useless stinking, ugly, hateful, conniving, evil, undeserving, trashy, nasty, incurably insane CRIMINAL, dammit.
Judge holds Trump in contempt for failing to turn over documents https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-contempt-new-york-fraud-investigation-attorney-general-letitia-james/

[Wednesdays]

35. Diety?

If there's one person on the entire planet in need of a diety, it's TFG:


:snicker:

[Meadowoak]

42. is that really trump? it looks like a womans body.

[Justice matters.]

48. Fits the "clownishly villain" character of any "new" Batman movie perfectly.

If I was "Hollywood" I'd make a blockbuster with that cretin's behavior.

[Novara]

51. This is a civil case, not a criminal case.

[pnwmom]

22. $10K a day is $300K a month. $3.6 million a year.

It'll be worth it to him to keep the documents out of that court. Just another cost of doing business.

[C Moon]

24. Anything to raise that bastard's blood pressure is okay with me.

[Novara]

26. excerpt from the article:

The contempt order could be short-lived. If Alina Habba, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, files a sworn statement detailing every step that was taken to locate potential documents, the judge might be satisfied, lawyers close to the case said. Ms. Habba said after the hearing ended that she intended to file such a statement, potentially by the end of the day.

This has to satisfy the judge. It would appear lawyers said, "We looked, honest," and that isn't good enough.

Also:

This month, lawyers from Ms. James’s office said that Mr. Trump had declined to turn over documents in response to eight separate requests, and called for him to be held in contempt and assessed a daily fine of $10,000 as long as he continued to not cooperate.

I'm thinking it might be hard to prove well enough that they really did try. I'll bet they destroyed the records. No matter, property valuation and tax records can be obtained from official sources.


Keep in mind that this is a civil suit, not a criminal one, which would need to be pursued by Bragg, who seems to have dropped the ball.

[sdfernando]

55. Should be $10K a day but it doubles every day. /nt

[vanlassie]

27. There needs to be a rich person clause. 10 days then jail.

[Mr.Bill]

33. They might as well have made the fine a million dollars a day.

Either way, they will collect the same amount - zero.

[packman]

36. And I can hear Donny's yawn from here

and a big "So what". Now a 100K a day MIGHT make him a bit upset.

[tinrobot]

37. Excellent move. It proves he's not above the law.

I suspect a lot of prosecutors are cautious about charging a former president.

This shows he's not above the law and makes it easier to charge. One step closer to handcuffs.

[mcar]

39. ...

[usaf-vet]

43. Stop playing his tired old game. Throw his ass in jail. And what is with the "prosecutors" are....

.....afraid to jail him. Thus admitting there are two standards in our laws.

I have never voted for a POTUS thinking it granted him (her someday) lifetime immunity for breaking the laws we all have to live by.

[Novara]

52. This is a civil case, not a criminal case.

[twodogsbarking]

44. Trump eats up the lawsuits like a cow eats hay and

then shits out something entirely different than the truth and his followers believe.......

[Midnight Writer]

47. Reckon workers at Trump resorts will have to eat a pay cut.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. "an extraordinary rebuke of the former president"

Yes. Yes it is "extraordinary".

Compared to Alvin Bragg, and the long list of other examples of letting Trump off scott free.

The real question should be..... Why simply following the law, and filing contempt charges after noncompliance of the court, after months of ignoring them, is an "extraordinary rebuke" against Trump.....but not for anyone else who dares to defy the court that way.

Just because of his last name? Because he was a former President? Why isn't the story framed as Trump himself the one responsible for an "extraordinary rebuke" of the courts?

[AllaN01Bear]

50. can the judge go after hard assets like bank accounts and or other real property

ignored and can he be arrested ?

[Dukkha]

53. I hope they're serious about it and take is out of his accounts

Benefits and pensions allowances for former Presidents are usually in the $100k+ range annually they can start there.

[YoshidaYui]

58. Ten grand a day, please PROCEDE

KICK his ass.... till there is no money left.

[Kablooie]

59. Trump will just refuse to pay and sue claiming the decision is illegal.

He will either win or keep this in the courts for years.

Trump's lawyers are much better and scamming the law than the justice department is at carrying it out.

[RipVanWinkle]

61. Ain't that the truth

Trump’s lawyers are better at scamming the law than DOJ is at holding Trump accountable.

Wake me up when Trump has been indicted.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

62. Trump's longtime appraisers, Cushman & Wakefield, ordered to obey NY AG Letitia James' subpoenas

A Manhattan judge has ordered Donald Trump's longstanding appraisers, Cushman and Wakefield, to turn over documents to New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The decision is the second victory Monday for James' probe of the former president's business dealings; in a press statement, James promised, "our investigation will continue undeterred."

Earlier Monday, the same judge, New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, held Trump personally in contempt of court and ordered that he, too, comply with James' subpoenas, which in his case seek his personal business documents.

Trump additionally must pay a $10,000-a-day fine, Engoron ordered.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-longtime-appraisers-cushman-and-wakefield-ordered-to-obey-ny-ag-letitia-james-subpoenas/ar-AAWAGCa

[Scrivener7]

69. Cushman and Wakefield is a legit company. I'm really surprised they do business

with him.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

63. Yawn...like anything will come of this...snort.

[Emile]

67. Looking for his arrest any day now!

[malthaussen]

70. $10,000 a day would be a lot for you or me...

... Donald Trump has so much of Other People's Money to throw away, it wouldn't make an impression. Put his ass in the slam.

-- Mal