New York Judge Engoron fined Trump $355 million on Friday after the former president was found liable of business fraud.

An online fundraiser for former President Donald Trump has racked up $84,354 out of a $355 million target in just 24 hours following the final judgement in his civil fraud trial in New York.

On Friday, Trump was fined roughly $355 million by New York Judge Arthur Engoron following a monthslong trial. The trial was to determine how much Trump and his associates would pay after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September 2022 accusing the former president, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.

The former president was also barred from doing business in New York for three years. Other defendants in the case also faced financial penalties and were banned from doing business in New York for periods of time. Meanwhile, Trump, who is the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has denied any wrongdoing and claims the case was politically motivated.

  • the post of tom joad
    26·
    9 months ago

    Man, i want some of that sweet rube money.

    If hypothetically, i created a gofundme that said something along the lines of ‘help support me support trump’ and it had a bunch of weasel words that sounded supportive of him but just boiled down to me using the money to pay my bills while thinking about supportive scaffolding, would that be illegal?

        • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          9 months ago

          I wonder if you could astro turf the hell out of this. Go deeper. Make it fun!

          Make a fake identity for your company’s parent company that parodies this guy https://gerritlansing.org/about-2/. Hire an actor on fiver to be red white and blue all over, set up your secret island bank accounts in the Seychelles and then go full Kojima mode lalilulelo, metal gear?! nanomachies?! etc etc.

          It could be self funding ARG that protects its “fraud” as an artistic work. Qanons would eat it up.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        I think winred has inserted themselves into the RepubliQan donation scam, too. I think campaigns are required to use them.

    • naonintendois@programming.dev
      11·
      9 months ago

      Reminds me of when the PS3 first went on sale and people sold pictures of a PS3 on eBay. The title said it was a picture, the content said it was a picture, but people were impatient, didn’t read and bought the auctions. I thought that was a bit manipulative then, but I would not feel bad if people did this to Trump supporters. IANAL but I don’t think it’s illegal as long as you don’t say you’ll do something and then not do it.