NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Wednesday said he would “conditionally” lift a civil contempt order against former President Donald Trump and stop billing him $10,000 a day in the New York attorney general’s investigation of Trump family business.
State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s decision doesn’t let Trump entirely off the hook — it requires him to pay $110,000 in fines accrued between April 26 and May 6. Engoron imposed the fines to punish Trump and his business for defying a court-ordered deadline to turn over documents to state Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump has to submit detailed affidavits regarding what he knows about searches for the documents, and Engoron wrote that he will have to be satisfied that “all responsive documents” have been turned over to James’ staff, his order states.