{"id":1961,"date":"2022-04-27T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/04\/27\/donald-trump-held-in-contempt-of-court\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:08:30","slug":"donald-trump-held-in-contempt-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/04\/27\/donald-trump-held-in-contempt-of-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump held in contempt of court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/Fql5.9U7Oq0bCZEkbWi7Bw--~B\/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD0xNzA7cT04MDt3PTMyNjthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/4xpfd9YJYLSLHA91LFWTSg--~B\/aD02MDA7dz0xMjAwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_huffington_post_584\/04430cbddbf7b5755ea5d3ae13ef9e22.cf.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former president Donald Trump was held in contempt of court by a New York judge Monday, for not providing documents subpoenaed by the state attorney general.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump will be fined $10,000 per day until he complies<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump lost his fight against a subpoena from state Attorney General Letitia James, then failed to produce all the documents by a court-ordered March 3 deadline, later extended to March 31 at his lawyers&#8217; request.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge ruled contempt was appropriate because of &#8220;repeated failures&#8221; to hand over the materials.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump was not in the courtroom.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James is investigating whether the former president&#8217;s family company, the Trump Organization, misstated the values of its real estate properties to get favorable loans and tax deductions.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James has said her probe had found &#8220;significant evidence&#8221; suggesting that for more than a decade, the company &#8220;relied on misleading asset valuations\u201d<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lawyer for Trump and the company said at the hearing that James&#8217; investigation was a &#8220;fishing expedition.&#8221;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, a Republican, denies wrongdoing and has called the investigation politically motivated. James is a Democrat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Donald Trump was held in contempt of court by a New York judge Monday, for not providing documents subpoenaed by the state attorney general. Trump will be fined $10,000 per day until he complies Trump lost his fight against a subpoena from state Attorney General Letitia James, then failed to produce all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}