A New York state judge Wednesday kept Donald Trump in limbo, declining to fully purge his civil contempt because the ex-president had still failed to provide the attorney general's fraud investigators the required information about his policies for keeping or destroying business records.
Former President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for failing to comply with a New York attorney general subpoena but risks reviving his contempt order if he fails to provide affidavits by a Friday deadline.
A New York judge said Wednesday he will lift a civil contempt order against former President Donald Trump in the state attorney general's financial fraud investigation if Trump pays what is now a $110,000 fine, his assistants detail policies on how they kept or destroyed documents, and a few final boxes are searched.
Former President Donald Trump called a New York state judge's decision to hold him in civil contempt and fine him $10,000 a day for allegedly flouting a subpoena "unwarranted," "patently improper," "unjustified," and "unconscionable and indefensible" in an appellate brief filed Monday.
A New York judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump's bid to purge his civil contempt and end a $10,000-a-day fine for flouting a subpoena for documents in the state's investigation of the Trump Organization, ordering the former U.S. president to file a new affidavit answering specific questions under oath.