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A US court has fined Donald Trump's real estate company to pay $1.6 million in a criminal penalty after it was found guilty of plotting to defraud tax authorities over 15 years.
Reuters reported that Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Juan Merchan signed the sentence after a jury found two Trump Organization affiliates guilty of 17 criminal counts last month.
In turn, Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg said in a statement that he is still conducting a criminal investigation into Trump's business practices, explaining that today's ruling, along with the ruling issued earlier this week, closes an important chapter in our ongoing investigation of the former president and his companies.
On Tuesday, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Allen Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family for half a century and was the company's former chief financial officer, to five months in prison after testifying as a key witness for the prosecution.
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