{"id":6545,"date":"2025-09-04T06:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:05:09","slug":"trump-just-scored-a-huge-legal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/?p=6545","title":{"rendered":"Trump Just Scored a Huge Legal Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8b6f096671da924326c04f02653a866c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M935653ScriptRootC1574480\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/f\/i\/findnews5.com.1574480.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n<p>A New York appellate court on Thursday struck down the half-billion-dollar penalty imposed in the civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump, his sons, and several Trump Organization executives. The panel ruled that the $527 million disgorgement was \u201cexcessive\u201d under the Eighth Amendment, though the judges remained divided on aspects of the case itself.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, a New York trial judge had ordered Trump and his co-defendants to pay $364 million in alleged \u201cill-gotten gains,\u201d plus years of accrued interest, pushing the total to over half a billion dollars. The appeals ruling now voids that penalty, marking a major win for Trump as legal battles continue.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York appellate court on Thursday struck down the half-billion-dollar penalty imposed in the civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump, his sons, and several&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}