In addition, Engoron ordered an independent body to monitor the Trump Organization for the next three years. However, he didn't cancel its business licences, which would have effectively shut down its activities in New York.
Referring to the defendant's behavior in his 92-page judgment, Engoron wrote: "Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological."
He later added: "The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience."
Maybe if you are calling someone's fraudulent actions borderline pathological, take away their business license. Just a suggestion. Nobody gives a shit that you are officially insulting them if your punishment is not backing that up.
This is what makes zero sense to me. How the fuck can the court determine that they committed fraud for decades and show no remorse at all, in fact the lied and doubled down and then the fuckers basically get a telling off!?!? All the courts and judges have treated trump far more leniently than he deserved when he's deliberately turned his appearances into circuses and showed complete disrespect to the courts.
Taking aim at Ivanka, Engoron wrote: "She consistently denied recalling the contents of documentary evidence that confirmed that she actively participated in events, even after she was confronted with the evidence."
He later added: "The Court found her inconsistent recall, depending on whether she was questioned by OAG [New York attorney general's office] or the defense, suspect. In any event, what Ms. Trump cannot recall is memorialized in contemporaneous emails and documents; in the absence of her memory, the documents speak for themselves."
Seems like she didn't inherit her father's "perfect memory".
I think she got a Trump family genes for perfect memory, just look at how she's able to selectively forget events on demand, just like her dad. It's pretty well documented that the Trumps have a memory condition where they selectively forget things as soon as they're asked to raise their right hand
Why wasn't this brought up by the prosecution? 'oh you don't recall? I thought you had a perfect memory as you repeatedly stated before this trial. Are you lying about that or about this?"
The statute of limitations of her previous business crimes is not the issue. She committed perjury regarding those crimes DURING THE TRIAL THAT JUST ENDED. It's a brand new crime!
It's a phrase echoing back to the Roman Empire. A pale is a fence in Latin so it means "outside the fence". We still call individual vertical elements of a fence palings.