Trump found in contempt of court

[robkelk]

Reuters: Donald Trump found in contempt of court in New York civil case

A New York judge on Monday held former U.S. president Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general's civil probe of his business practices and ordered Trump to be fined $10,000 US per day until he complies.

Trump lost a bid to quash a subpoena from state Attorney General Letitia James, then failed to produce all of the documents by a court-ordered March 3 deadline, later extended to March 31 at his lawyers' request.

Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that a contempt finding was appropriate because of what the judge called "repeated failures" to hand over materials and that it was not clear Trump had conducted a complete search for the responsive documents.

"Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously. I hereby hold you in civil contempt," the judge said, although Trump himself was not in the courtroom.

[Black Aeronaut]

*Looks up Contempt of Court*

Damn. Probably not enough to prevent him from running in 2024.

[Norgarth]

*Looks up Contempt of Court*

Damn.  Probably not enough to prevent him from running in 2024.

The contempt itself, no.  $10k/day for over a year might hinder his campaign though.

[Black Aeronaut]

$10k/day is not even a drop in the bucket when you have people that make that amount in seconds who are perfectly willing to donate to Trump's campaign.

[hazard]

Judges generally start escalating penalties when they keep getting ignored.

10k/day is where it starts.

[classicdrogn]

I thought it was an additional $10k per day? So the total ends up being 10k, 30k, 60k, 100k, 150k, etc. Doesn't take too much of the Triangular Numbers sequence before it starts getting significant at that point, even if it's not the fastest formula - in two weeks it'd be over a million.

[Bob Schroeck]

"Pretty soon we're talking real money." -- Senator Everett Dirksen

[robkelk]

"Pretty soon we're talking real money." -- Senator Everett Dirksen

"What's a million?" -- John Diefenbaker misquoting C.D. Howe, 1945