Trump ordered to pay $355 million for civil fraud

A New York judge on Friday handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of $355 million that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.

The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron caps a chaotic, yearslong case in which New York’s attorney general put Mr. Trump’s fantastical claims of wealth on trial. With no jury, the power was in Justice Engoron’s hands alone, and he came down hard: The judge delivered a sweeping array of punishments that threatens the former president’s business empire as he simultaneously contends with four criminal prosecutions and seeks to regain the White House.

Not only did Justice Engoron impose a three-year ban preventing Mr. Trump from serving in top roles at any New York company, including his own, but the judge also applied that punishment to the former president’s adult sons for two years and ordered that they pay more than $4 million each. One of the sons, Eric Trump, is the Trump Organization’s de facto chief executive, and the ruling throws into doubt whether any member of the family can run the business in the near term.

In his unconventional style, Justice Engoron criticized Mr. Trump and the other defendants for refusing to admit errors for years. “Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological,” he said.

LOL on “stockpile of cash,” unless that stockpile includes by imputation the nickels and dimes of the MAGA hordes, waiting to be fleeced in order to save their God-King.

Also that border was crossed a long, long time ago.

We’ve never been anywhere like this before, so where we’re going is anybody’s guess.

Also too, there’s nothing “unconventional” about a judge excoriating defendants for being sociopaths. This is just another elite media attempt to bothsides the unbothsideable.

Also, Joe Biden is old.