Trump’s legal debts top a half-billion dollars. Will he have to pay?
LA TimesDonald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday, the day a judge ordered him to pay millions of dollars in fines. A New York judge ordered Trump and his companies Friday to pay $355 million in fines, plus interest, after ruling that he had manipulated his net worth in financial statements. Gen. Letitia James, who brought the case, said the interest payments totaled $99 million and would “continue to increase every single day until it is paid.” Between Friday’s ruling and the two judgments in Carroll’s case, Trump would be on the hook for about $542 million in legal judgments. If it returns an unfavorable ruling, Trump could try to get the case taken up by New York’s top appellate court, though legal experts say that is unlikely. On Friday, the judge overseeing Trump’s civil fraud case appointed an additional monitor to oversee the Trump Organization’s finances, finding they could not be trusted to follow the law.