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A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, after ruling he had not complied with a subpoena in the attorney general’s civil investigation. The court imposed a $10,000-a-day fine until he turned over the records.
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A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, after ruling he had not complied with a subpoena in the attorney general’s civil investigation. The court imposed a $10,000-a-day fine until he turned over the records.
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A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, after ruling he had not complied with a subpoena in the attorney general’s civil investigation. The court imposed a $10,000-a-day fine until he turned over the records.
A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, in the state attorney general’s financial probe. The $10,000-a-day sanction began the next day after the court found his March 31 response failed to satisfy a subpoena-related order.
A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, in the state attorney general’s investigation into the Trump Organization and imposed a $10,000-per-day fine until he complied with the subpoena.
A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, for not turning over records requested in the state attorney general’s civil fraud investigation. The court set a $10,000 daily sanction, and the total later climbed to $110,000 as the noncompliance continued.
By April 22, 2022, the New York dispute was no longer just about compliance in the abstract. The attorney general had already filed a contempt motion on April 7, Trump had already filed his opposition on April 20, and the court had not yet ruled.
As of April 22, 2022, Donald Trump was facing a contempt motion in New York over records tied to Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud probe. The motion had been filed on April 7, and a ruling had not yet been issued.
On April 20, 2022, Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge to reject the attorney general’s contempt request in the records fight tied to her civil investigation of the Trump Organization. The filing said Trump had complied by telling investigators he did not possess the subpoenaed documents. A contempt ruling came later, on April 25.
In an April 19 filing, Donald Trump said he personally did not have records subpoenaed in New York’s fraud probe. The affidavit was a response to a contempt motion filed on April 7, not a ruling, and the court later ordered Trump to pay a contempt fine unless he met specified conditions.
By April 18, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James had already asked a judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt over his failure to turn over records in the Trump Organization investigation. The motion was filed April 7, but the court had not ruled yet; that came on April 25.
By April 17, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James had already moved to hold Donald Trump in contempt over subpoena compliance, but the court had not yet ruled. The fight centered on whether Trump and his company had produced all the records ordered in February and due by March 31, or whether they were still withholding material James said should have been handed over.
April 15, 2022 was a court-ordered deadline for Trump to turn over documents in New York’s civil investigation. The contempt motion had already been filed on April 7, and the contempt finding came later, on April 25, with the written order entered April 26.
By April 15, 2022, Donald Trump was past a court-extended deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil investigation of his business practices. The contempt motion had already been filed on April 7, and the contempt order would not come until April 25. That left the date as a snapshot of pressure, not punishment.
By April 15, the key date had already passed: Donald Trump had missed a March 31 deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil investigation, and the attorney general had already asked the court to hold him in contempt. The contempt ruling came later, on April 25, after the missed deadline and the April 7 motion.
By April 14, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James had already asked a judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt for missing a court-ordered deadline to turn over documents tied to the Trump Organization investigation. The contempt issue was pending; no ruling had been entered yet.
The New York attorney general asked a court on April 7, 2022, to hold Donald Trump in civil contempt for not producing documents tied to the state’s financial investigation. The filing also sought a $10,000-a-day fine until he complied.
On April 8, 2022, the New York attorney general’s contempt motion against Donald Trump was pending in court over document production in the civil fraud probe. No contempt finding had been issued yet; that came later, on April 25, when the judge imposed a daily fine.
New York Attorney General Letitia James moved on April 7, 2022, to hold Donald Trump in contempt after he missed a March 31 deadline to turn over records tied to her office’s financial investigation.
On April 4, 2022, the New York attorney general’s investigation into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization was still ongoing. The contempt motion over subpoena compliance had not yet been filed; that came on April 7.
By April 2, 2022, Donald Trump had already blown past an extended March 31 deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil fraud investigation, after an earlier March 3 deadline was pushed back.
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