Donald Trump was fined nearly $355 million in New York on Friday February 16 for a series of financial frauds within his real estate empire, the Trump Organization. The judge also barred the former president and Republican presidential candidate from operating his businesses for three years.
In September, Arthur Engoron had already ruled that Donald Trump was guilty of fraud and ordered the partial dissolution of his empire. The state's attorney general, Letitia James, filed charges against him in 2022 and took him, along with his two adult sons and their family group, to a civil trial for fraud from October to January.