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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eric Garcia

Judge holds Trump in civil contempt, requires him to pay $10k a day he flouts subpoena

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A New York judge sided with the state’s attorney general Letitia James’s request that former president Donald Trump pay $10,000 for each day that he flouts a subpoena into a tax probe by her office.

Ms James’s office filed a motion with the state Supreme Court earlier this month, saying the sum was “sufficient to coerce his compliance” with a court order put in place in February. This comes after Judge Arthur Engoron said in a ruling that the former president and his children Don Jr and Ivanka needed to testify in an investigation from the attorney general’s office.”

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