Former US President Donald Trump was ordered by a New York judge on Monday to pay $10,000 a day as long as he refuses to provide accounting and tax documents as part of a civil investigation into his group. .
“This is a major victory, a court has ruled in our favor to convict Donald Trump of obstruction,” New York State Attorney General, Democrat-elect Letitia James wrote on Twitter.
“Donald Trump must pay $10,000 for each day he continues to defy the court order to deliver documents to my office,” said the attorney general, who has been investigating for years on many cases. possible fraud in the tax practices of the Trump Organization.
On February 17, Letitia James obtained a New York judge to order the Republican billionaire and his children Donald Jr. and Ivanka to testify under oath in the context of this investigation. A decision once morest which the Trumps appealed.
“Obstruction for his refusal to comply with a court order”
But the court had also requested before March 31 a whole series of accounting and tax documents on the Trump Organization. Faced with the lack of response, Letitia James had once more retaliated before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, asking that he be found responsible for “obstruction for his refusal to comply with a court order. “.
