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Judge Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 on Oct. 25, 2023, after finding that comments he made outside the courtroom violated the limited gag order in the New York civil fraud trial. The penalty came five days after a separate $5,000 fine for a different violation.
Why it matters: Gag order enforcement in the New York civil fraud trial
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Judge Arthur Engoron stood by a $10,000 gag-order fine on Oct. 26, 2023, a day after he imposed it over Donald Trump’s comment outside the New York civil fraud trial courtroom.
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Judge Arthur Engoron stood by a $10,000 gag-order fine on Oct. 26, 2023, a day after he imposed it over Donald Trump’s comment outside the New York civil fraud trial courtroom.
Judge Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 on Oct. 25, 2023, after finding that comments he made outside the courtroom violated the limited gag order in the New York civil fraud trial. The penalty came five days after a separate $5,000 fine for a different violation.
Judge Arthur Engoron’s limited gag order in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case was already in place on Oct. 15, 2023, after Trump posted about the judge’s principal law clerk on Oct. 3.
By Oct. 6, 2023, the New York fraud trial was already being shaped by a limited gag order Judge Arthur Engoron imposed three days earlier after Donald Trump attacked his principal law clerk online. The order was part of the case’s immediate fallout, not a long-running subplot, and it put Trump under a direct courtroom restraint as the trial continued.
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