perhaps still weeks away, or that it might not occur at all trump s apparent surprise that the mayor prospect o accountability is the result o his 50 years of evading actual justice. his first known brush with the law came back in october o 1973, that is when federal officials accused trump and hi father of violating laws tha barred racial discrimination i apartment rentals. trump later settled that sui in the agreement he signed i contained no acknowledgment of wrongdoing in 1988, he agreed to pay seven drug 50,000 dollar penalty to settle a suit wit the federal trade commission for violating antitrust laws overstock trades fast forward to 2016, trum paid a 10 million dollar civil penalty on one of his resort for violating the bank secrecy act. and then in 2018, a federa court approved a 25 millio dollar settlement in the trump university lawsuit