{"id":12929,"date":"2024-02-18T00:59:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2024-02-18T00:59:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T00:59:29","slug":"judge-orders-trump-to-pay-355-million-for-lying-about-his-wealth-in-staggering-civil-fraud-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12929","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Trump to pay $355 million for lying about his wealth in staggering civil fraud ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;A New York judge imposed a $364 million penalty Friday on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-fraud-trial-letitia-james-biden-97077792773f1f25864a462de861a467\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, his companies and some executives, ruling that they engaged in a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated the former president\u2019s wealth.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Engoron concluded that Trump and his co-defendants \u201cfailed to accept responsibility\u201d for their actions and that expert witnesses who testified for the defense \u201csimply denied reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge called the civil fraud at the heart of the trial a \u201cvenial sin, not a mortal sin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways,\u201d wrote Engoron, a Democrat. He said their \u201ccomplete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience,&#8221; the judge added.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/verdict-donald-trump-civil-fraud-051849503.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/verdict-donald-trump-civil-fraud-051849503.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A New York judge imposed a $364 million penalty Friday on Donald Trump, his companies and some executives, ruling that they engaged in a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated the former president\u2019s wealth.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Engoron concluded that Trump and his co-defendants \u201cfailed to accept responsibility\u201d for their actions and that expert witnesses who testified for the defense \u201csimply denied reality.\u201d<br \/>\nThe judge called the civil fraud at the heart of the trial a \u201cvenial sin, not a mortal sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways,\u201d wrote Engoron, a Democrat. He said their \u201ccomplete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience,&#8221; the judge added.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/verdict-donald-trump-civil-fraud-051849503.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,221,1107,172,170,1277],"class_list":["post-12929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-liars","tag-lying","tag-trump","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12930,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions\/12930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}