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Trump sentenced in historic Manhattan hush money case
Source: Courthouse News Service
January 10, 2025
MANHATTAN (CN) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to unconditional discharge on Friday on 34 counts of falsifying business records, cementing his status as a convicted felon in New York City just 10 days before his inauguration.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had suggested last week that he would hit Trump with the unique sentence, which keeps Trump from having to serve a tangible punishment like community service or a fine, but would preserve the jury’s guilty verdict against the former and soon-to-be president.
Thrice delayed, the sentencing went ahead as planned Friday amid tireless efforts from Trump and his legal team to put the hearing on ice. Trump had claimed that, as the president-elect, he is immune from prosecution and cannot be sentenced. But despite taking those arguments all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, his efforts proved futile.
Trump was already the first president in the nation’s history to be charged with a crime; now, he’s also the first to be convicted and sentenced. The monumental criminal case came to a head this past June, when a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of fudging his company records to cover up a sprawling hush money scheme aimed at quelling bad press during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/donald-trump-sentenced-in-historic-manhattan-hush-money-case/
Source: Courthouse News Service
January 10, 2025
MANHATTAN (CN) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to unconditional discharge on Friday on 34 counts of falsifying business records, cementing his status as a convicted felon in New York City just 10 days before his inauguration.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had suggested last week that he would hit Trump with the unique sentence, which keeps Trump from having to serve a tangible punishment like community service or a fine, but would preserve the jury’s guilty verdict against the former and soon-to-be president.
Thrice delayed, the sentencing went ahead as planned Friday amid tireless efforts from Trump and his legal team to put the hearing on ice. Trump had claimed that, as the president-elect, he is immune from prosecution and cannot be sentenced. But despite taking those arguments all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, his efforts proved futile.
Trump was already the first president in the nation’s history to be charged with a crime; now, he’s also the first to be convicted and sentenced. The monumental criminal case came to a head this past June, when a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of fudging his company records to cover up a sprawling hush money scheme aimed at quelling bad press during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/donald-trump-sentenced-in-historic-manhattan-hush-money-case/
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