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Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedWeaponizing Defamation Lawsuits from the Oval Office: The ABC, CBS, Des Moines Register, and Pulitzer Board Cases of 2024 and 20252024–2026
Beginning in 2024 and continuing into his second term as president, Donald Trump filed or pursued a series of defamation lawsuits against major news organizations, a national pollster, and the Pulitzer Prize Board. Two of the suits resulted in multimillion-dollar settlements that press freedom advocates described as unprecedented…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedWeisselberg Perjury: Felony Conviction for Lying Under Oath During Civil Fraud Trial2023–2024
Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty on March 4, 2024 to two felony counts of perjury in the first degree for lying under oath during the New York civil fraud trial presided over by Justice Arthur Engoron. The perjury charges arose from testimony Weisselberg gave on October 12…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedWitness Intimidation and Gag Order Violations: Social Media Attacks During Active Legal Proceedings2023–2024
During multiple simultaneous legal proceedings in 2023 and 2024, Donald Trump used social media platforms, primarily Truth Social, to publicly attack witnesses, prosecutors, judges, and court staff involved in his cases. The attacks prompted prosecutors to seek gag orders in at least two proceedings, and judges in both cases imposed…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedAttacks on Jurors and Witnesses During Active Trials: Gag Order Violations Across Multiple Jurisdictions2023–2024
Across multiple civil and criminal proceedings in 2023 and 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked jurors, witnesses, prosecutors, judges, and their family members on social media and in public statements, leading to gag orders in multiple jurisdictions and formal findings of contempt of court.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedE. Jean Carroll Defamation Verdict: $83.3 Million Jury Award for 'Remarkably Reprehensible' Conduct2022–2025
On January 26, 2024, a federal jury in Manhattan awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages after finding that Donald Trump had defamed her by repeatedly denying her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and by attacking her character and motives. The…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedCivil Contempt of Court: Trump Fined $110,000 for Failing to Comply with Attorney General Subpoena2022–2023
On April 25, 2022, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron held Donald Trump in civil contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of her office's civil fraud investigation into the Trump Organization's business practices. The judge imposed a fine of $10,000 per…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedContempt of Congress Conviction: Peter Navarro's Refusal to Comply with January 6 Committee Subpoena2022–2024
Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser under Donald Trump, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress on September 7, 2023, for defying a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. A federal jury in Washington, D.C. returned the guilty verdict after…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedSteve Bannon's Criminal Contempt of Congress: Conviction, Sentencing, and Imprisonment for Defying the January 6 Committee Subpoena2021–2026
Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist in the Trump White House from January to August 2017 and remained a prominent political ally of Donald Trump, was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6,…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedExecutive Privilege Abuse: Claiming Presidential Privilege After Leaving Office to Delay the January 6 Investigation2021–2022
In October 2021, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit to prevent the National Archives and Records Administration from complying with requests by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Trump asserted executive privilege over White House records from his presidency,…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedGiuliani's $148 Million Defamation Verdict: Consequences for Spreading Trump's Election Fraud Claims Against Georgia Election Workers2020–2024
On December 15, 2023, a federal jury in Washington, D.C. awarded Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss a total of $148,169,000 in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that Rudy Giuliani had defamed them by repeatedly and falsely accusing them of committing election fraud while they served as poll workers in Fulton…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedAttacks on Election Workers: Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, and the $148 Million Defamation Verdict2020–2025
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, were Fulton County, Georgia election workers who processed absentee ballots during the 2020 presidential election. Beginning in December 2020, Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani publicly and repeatedly accused the two women of committing ballot fraud during the vote…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedFox News Dominion Voting Systems Settlement: $787.5 Million Resolution Exposing Trump's Election Lies as Source Material2020–2023
On April 18, 2023, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit, the largest publicly known defamation settlement in American media history. While Fox News was the defendant, the case exposed through sworn testimony and internal communications that Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedPost-Election Litigation Campaign: 62 Lawsuits Filed to Overturn the 2020 Election Results, Nearly All Dismissed2020–2021
Following the November 3, 2020, presidential election, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and Trump allies filed 62 lawsuits in nine states and the District of Columbia challenging election processes, vote counting procedures, and the certification of results. Sixty-one of the 62 cases were dismissed by the courts or…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedNewsmax Defamation Settlements: $40 Million to Smartmatic and $67 Million to Dominion for Amplifying False Election Fraud Claims2020–2025
Newsmax Media, a conservative cable news network that amplified Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 presidential election, paid a combined $107 million in defamation settlements to two voting technology companies whose reputations were damaged by those claims. Newsmax paid $40 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Smartmatic and…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedFrom 'Stand Back and Stand By' to Presidential Pardon: The Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy Arc2020–2025
This entry documents a sequence of events spanning from September 2020 to January 2025, connecting Donald Trump's public statements about the Proud Boys, their seditious conspiracy convictions for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Trump's subsequent clemency for the convicted leaders.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedIllegal Withholding of Ukraine Military Aid: GAO Finding of Impoundment Control Act Violation2019–2020
On January 16, 2020, the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog agency, issued a formal legal decision finding that the Office of Management and Budget had violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 by withholding $214 million in congressionally appropriated security assistance to Ukraine without…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedAbuse of Emergency Powers: National Emergency Declaration to Fund Border Wall After Congressional Refusal2019–2021
On February 15, 2019, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act to redirect approximately $6.5 billion in funds that Congress had not appropriated for border wall construction along the southern U.S. border. The declaration came after Congress explicitly declined to provide Trump's requested…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedDiverting $3.6 Billion in Military Construction Funds to Build the Border Wall After Congress Refused Funding2019–2020
On February 15, 2019, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States, invoking powers under the National Emergencies Act and 10 U.S.C. Section 2808 to redirect military construction funds to build a border wall that Congress had explicitly refused to fully fund. The declaration came after…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedRoger Stone's Obstruction and Trump's Intervention: Conviction, Sentencing Override, Prosecutor Resignations, Commutation, and Full Pardon2019–2020
Roger Stone, a longtime political adviser and self-described confidant of Donald Trump, was indicted on January 25, 2019, by a federal grand jury on seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and one count of witness tampering. The charges arose from Special…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedPaul Manafort's Breach of Cooperation: Lying to Mueller's Prosecutors While Sharing Information with Trump's Legal Team Through a Joint Defense Agreement2018–2020
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign chairman, entered into a cooperation agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office on September 14, 2018, as part of a guilty plea to conspiracy charges. Within weeks, Mueller's team determined that Manafort had breached the agreement by lying to federal investigators on…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedLev Parnas and Igor Fruman Convictions: Giuliani Associates Convicted of Funneling Foreign Money into U.S. Elections and Trump's Political Orbit2018–2022
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, both Soviet-born businessmen and associates of Rudy Giuliani, were arrested on October 9, 2019, at Dulles International Airport while attempting to board a one-way flight to Vienna. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged them with conspiracy to funnel foreign money into U.S. political…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedCensus Manipulation: Blocked Citizenship Question and Excluded Undocumented Immigrants from Apportionment2018–2021
The Trump administration pursued two distinct but related efforts to alter the composition of the decennial census in ways that critics argued would reduce the political representation of immigrant communities and benefit the Republican Party. Both efforts were blocked by courts. The citizenship question effort was blocked by the Supreme…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedPaul Manafort Criminal Convictions: Eight Federal Felony Counts and Subsequent Plea Deal, Sentencing, and Presidential Pardon2017–2020
Paul Manafort served as chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign from June to August 2016. On October 30, 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office indicted Manafort on charges related to his political consulting work in Ukraine, which predated his time on the Trump campaign but raised questions about the financial and…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedElliott Broidy Guilty Plea: Top Trump Fundraiser Acted as Unregistered Foreign Agent for Chinese and Malaysian Interests2017–2021
Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser and former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, pleaded guilty on October 20, 2020, to a federal charge of conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent while lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests. Broidy was one of three…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedMuslim Travel Ban: Executive Orders Restricting Entry from Muslim-Majority Countries2017–2021
On January 27, 2017, one week after taking office, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, titled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." The order suspended entry to the United States for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries for 90 days: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedMichael Flynn Guilty Plea, DOJ Motion to Dismiss, and Presidential Pardon: National Security Adviser Convicted of Lying to the FBI2017–2020
Michael Flynn served as National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump for 24 days, from January 20 to February 13, 2017. He resigned after reports revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedPresidential Inaugural Committee: $750,000 Settlement for Misuse of Nonprofit Funds and Hotel Overpayments2017–2022
The 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee, organized as a nonprofit 501(c)(4), raised a record $107 million in donations for events surrounding Donald Trump's January 20, 2017 inauguration. The DC Attorney General filed a civil lawsuit on January 22, 2020, alleging that the committee misused nonprofit funds in violation of DC nonprofit…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedSummer Zervos Defamation Lawsuit: Presidential Immunity Challenge and Withdrawal Without Compensation2017–2021
Summer Zervos, a contestant on Season 5 of The Apprentice, accused Donald Trump of sexual assault in October 2016, alleging that Trump groped and kissed her without consent during a 2007 meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Zervos came forward alongside several other women who made similar allegations in the weeks following…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedRick Gates Guilty Plea: Conspiracy Against the United States and Lying to the FBI2016–2019
On February 23, 2018, Rick Gates, Donald Trump's deputy campaign chairman during the 2016 presidential election, pleaded guilty to two federal charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office: conspiracy against the United States and making false statements to the FBI. The charges arose from Gates's work alongside Paul Manafort…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedGeorge Papadopoulos Guilty Plea: Trump Campaign Adviser Lied to FBI About Russian Contacts2016–2020
George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, pleaded guilty on October 5, 2017, to making materially false statements to FBI agents about his contacts with individuals connected to the Russian government. He was the first member of the Trump campaign to be charged and the first to plead…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedThe Trump Foundation's Final Accounting: Court-Supervised Dissolution, $2 Million in Restitution, and a Complete Record of Self-Dealing2016–2019
On November 7, 2019, New York Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla issued the final judgment in the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. The ruling ordered Trump to pay $2 million in restitution and documented a…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedFelony Conviction: 34 Counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree (New York, 2024)2016–2025
On May 30, 2024, a Manhattan jury unanimously convicted Donald J. Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, making him the first former or sitting U.S. president to be convicted of a felony.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump's Tax Return Battle: Years of Legal Obstruction Followed by Revelations of Minimal Tax Payments and Failed IRS Audits2015–2022
Donald Trump broke a decades-long bipartisan precedent by refusing to release his tax returns during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, then fought a multi-year legal battle to prevent Congress from obtaining them. The fight reached the Supreme Court twice and ended with the public release of six years of Trump's federal tax…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedHush Money Conspiracy: Catch-and-Kill Scheme with AMI and Michael Cohen2015–2018
Beginning in the summer of 2015, Donald Trump, his personal attorney Michael Cohen, and David Pecker, then chairman and CEO of American Media Inc. (AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer), entered into a coordinated scheme designed to suppress stories damaging to Trump's personal reputation before and during the 2016 presidential…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedThe Paint Spot: Small Business Forced to Litigate for $32,535 Owed by Trump National Doral Miami2014–2017
In 2014, The Paint Spot, a small Miami-based paint supply company owned by Juan Carlos Enriquez, supplied paint and related materials for a renovation of Trump National Doral Miami, a golf resort owned by Trump Endeavor 12 LLC. The materials were part of a larger renovation contract involving the repainting of five of the resort's ten…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump International Hotel Las Vegas: Years of Refusing to Bargain with Unionized Workers Despite NLRB Orders2014–2018
Workers at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, a 64-story luxury hotel and condominium tower on the Las Vegas Strip, engaged in a multi-year fight for union representation and a collective bargaining agreement that was marked by repeated unfair labor practice findings against the hotel.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedBondi Donation: $25,000 Trump Foundation Gift to Florida Attorney General While Trump University Investigation Was Under Consideration2013–2019
On September 17, 2013, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 donation to And Justice for All, a political committee supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. The donation was made during a period when Bondi's office was considering whether to join a multi-state investigation of Trump University, following New York Attorney…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedNew York Civil Fraud: Judicial Finding of Years of Financial Fraud Through Systematic Asset Inflation2011–2025
On February 16, 2024, Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump, his adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, former CFO Allen Weisselberg, and multiple Trump Organization entities engaged in persistent fraud. They systematically inflated the value of Trump's assets on financial statements provided to banks,…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTwo Sets of Books: The Trump Organization's Practice of Maintaining Inflated Financial Statements for Lenders and Deflated Valuations for Tax Authorities2011–2024
A central finding of New York Attorney General Letitia James's civil fraud case against Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and several individual defendants was that the Trump Organization maintained financial statements that systematically inflated the value of its assets when seeking loans and insurance, while presenting lower…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump SoHo: Buyer Fraud Settlement and Abandoned Criminal Investigation After Attorney Donations to DA2008–2012
Trump SoHo was a 46-story hotel-condominium tower at 246 Spring Street in Manhattan, developed through a partnership between the Trump Organization and the Bayrock Group. Beginning in 2008, Trump Organization principals publicly stated that between 31 and 60 percent of units had been sold. In April 2008, the team claimed 31 percent of…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedSelf-Dealing Purchases: Charity Funds Used to Buy Personal Items Including Portraits and a Tim Tebow Helmet2007–2019
As part of the broader dissolution case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, the New York Attorney General documented multiple instances in which Trump used charitable funds to purchase personal items that were displayed at his for-profit properties or retained for his personal use.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump University: $25 Million Settlement for Fraud and Misrepresentation2005–2018
Trump University was a for-profit enterprise launched in 2005 that marketed real estate seminars as a path to learning Trump's personal investment strategies. Despite its name, it was not an accredited university. The New York State Department of Education notified the business in 2005 that it was violating state law by using the term…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump Organization Criminal Tax Fraud: Felony Convictions for 15-Year Off-the-Books Compensation Scheme2005–2023
On December 6, 2022, a Manhattan jury found The Trump Corporation and The Trump Payroll Corp. guilty on all 17 felony counts for their role in a 15-year scheme to defraud federal, New York State, and New York City tax authorities. The scheme ran from approximately 2005 to 2018 and involved structuring executive compensation to avoid tax…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedAllen Weisselberg Tax Fraud Guilty Plea: 15 Felony Counts for a 15-Year Scheme at the Trump Organization2005–2023
On August 18, 2022, Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts in a New York State case arising from a 15-year tax fraud scheme. The charges included grand larceny in the second degree, criminal tax fraud in the third and fourth degrees, offering a false…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump Organization Criminal Tax Fraud: Fifteen-Year Scheme of Unreported Executive Compensation2005–2023
On July 1, 2021, the Manhattan District Attorney's office indicted Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization, along with two Trump Organization corporate entities, on charges of criminal tax fraud, grand larceny, and falsifying business records. The indictment described a fifteen-year scheme in…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump University Instructor Qualifications Fraud: Scripted Deception, Fabricated Credentials, and the 'Hand-Picked' Marketing Claim2005–2016
Trump University, the for-profit real estate seminar program that operated from 2005 to 2010, marketed its instructors as experts "hand-picked" by Donald Trump who would share his personal real estate strategies. Internal documents, deposition testimony, and court filings revealed that this central marketing claim was false and that the…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump Taj Mahal: $10 Million FinCEN Penalty for Willful Anti-Money Laundering Violations1998–2015
On January 27, 2015, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Associates LLC for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. At the time, it was the largest BSA penalty ever imposed on a casino.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedE. Jean Carroll Verdict: Civil Liability for Sexual Abuse and Defamation ($88.3 Million in Total Damages)1996–2025
In May 2023, a federal jury in the Southern District of New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and for defaming her in 2022 when he denied the assault and attacked her character. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in total damages: $2 million for sexual…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedAttempted Eminent Domain Seizure of a Widow's Home: Trump Tried to Take Vera Coking's Property for a Casino Parking Lot1993–1998
In the early 1990s, Donald Trump attempted to use the power of government eminent domain to seize the home of Vera Coking, an elderly widow in Atlantic City, New Jersey, so that he could demolish it and build a limousine parking lot for his adjacent Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. When Coking refused to sell, Trump enlisted a state agency…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedCasino Bankruptcies: Six Chapter 11 Filings, $82 Million in Personal Compensation While Investors Lost Billions1991–2014
Between 1991 and 2014, entities controlled or chaired by Donald Trump filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six times across four distinct reorganization cycles. In every case the filing entities were corporations. In every case the pattern was the same: heavy debt loads financed through high-yield junk bonds, failure to service…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedAtlantic City Casino Regulatory Violations: Fines, Discrimination Citations, and Anti-Money Laundering Failures1990–2015
Donald Trump's Atlantic City casino operations accumulated a significant record of regulatory violations, fines, and citations from the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and federal regulators over approximately 25 years of operation.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedTrump Foundation: Court-Ordered Dissolution for Illegal Self-Dealing and Campaign Finance Violations1988–2019
The Donald J. Trump Foundation, a tax-exempt private foundation incorporated in 1988, was dissolved by court order in December 2018 after the New York Attorney General's office established a pattern of illegal conduct spanning more than a decade.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedUSFL v. NFL: $1 Antitrust Verdict After Trump-Led Strategy Collapsed the League1984–1990
Donald Trump purchased a majority stake in the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League in August 1983. The USFL had been founded in 1982 as a spring professional football league and initially attracted solid attendance and television deals with ABC and ESPN.
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedUSFL v. NFL: Trump's Role in the Fall Schedule Gamble That Destroyed a Professional Football League1984–1986
The United States Football League was founded in 1982 as a spring professional football league designed to avoid direct competition with the NFL. The league launched its first season in March 1983 with twelve teams and initially attracted television contracts, fan interest, and stable ownership groups. Donald Trump purchased the New…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedFrivolous Litigation as Intimidation: Trump's Pattern of Using Defamation Lawsuits to Silence Critics and Journalists1984–2024
Over a period spanning four decades, Donald Trump has filed or threatened lawsuits against journalists, authors, media organizations, and critics who published unflattering information about his wealth, his business practices, or his conduct. In the most prominent adjudicated cases, Trump's claims were dismissed by courts. The pattern…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally Resolved100 Central Park South: Tenant Harassment Campaign and Federal RICO Dismissal1981–1998
In 1981, Donald Trump purchased 100 Central Park South, a 14-story residential building, alongside the adjacent 38-story Barbizon Plaza Hotel for approximately $65 million. His stated goal was to demolish both structures and construct a luxury condominium tower. The building housed roughly 60 occupied units, with approximately half under…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedPolish Workers Lawsuit: Undocumented Demolition Workers Underpaid and Denied Union Benefits During Trump Tower Construction (Diduck v. Kaszycki & Sons)1980–1999
In early 1980, Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization contracted with Kaszycki & Sons Contractors, Inc. to demolish the Bonwit Teller department store at 725 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, clearing the site for the construction of Trump Tower. To meet an accelerated schedule, the contractor employed approximately 150 to 200 undocumented…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedUnpaid Contractors: Decades of Documented Non-Payment Across Hundreds of Vendors and Workers1980–2024
A pattern of non-payment to contractors, vendors, and workers by Donald Trump and the Trump Organization has been documented across multiple decades and projects. The most comprehensive examination was a June 2016 investigation by USA Today, which reviewed court records, lien filings, and government documents spanning more than 30 years…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedWage Theft and Labor Exploitation at Trump Properties: Documented Cases of Unpaid Overtime, Tip Confiscation, and Subminimum Wages1980–2019
Across multiple decades, workers at Trump-branded properties have alleged, and in some cases proven through legal settlements and government investigations, that they were denied proper wages, forced to work unpaid overtime, had tips confiscated, or were paid below minimum wage. The documented cases span Trump's construction projects,…
Tier 1, Adjudicated and Legally ResolvedDOJ Housing Discrimination: Federal Consent Decree for Systematic Racial Bias in Rental Properties1973–1978
On October 15, 1973, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil rights suit in the Eastern District of New York against Fred C. Trump, Donald J. Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. The suit alleged systematic violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 across a portfolio of roughly 14,000 apartments in New York City.