A judge on Friday ordered former President Donald Trump and his companies to pay nearly $355 million in the New York civil fraud case.
Judge Arthur Engoron also barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in the state for three years. Trump's adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, were ordered to each pay $4 million for their personal profits from the fraud.
In September, Engoron found Trump and his co-defendants liable for fraud for grossly inflating asset valuations on financial statements. The ruling was a significant victory for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a lawsuit in 2022 alleging that Trump and his co-defendants committed repeated fraud in inflating assets on financial statements to get better terms on commercial real estate loans and insurance policies.
Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $3.6 billion in three separate years between 2011 and 2021, according to the attorney general's office. Attorneys for Trump refuted the claims, arguing that asset valuations are highly subjective and that they were still sorting through what the ruling means for the company's future.
Trump attended closing arguments in January and spoke from the defense table for roughly five minutes, saying the "financial statements are perfect" and calling the case a "witch hunt" before the judge cut him off. The former president plans to appeal the ruling.