Investigating Trump

Donald Trump – the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – faces multiple legal cases, the first time in U.S. history that a current or former president stands accused of criminal charges

  
CRIMINAL CASES

Hush-money: Manhattan criminal court charges Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in scheme that violates election laws.
Charges focus on payoffs on eve of 2016 election, to Stormy Daniels (above) and Karen McDougal, to conceal alleged sexual affairs with Trump.
Trump claims innocence

Espionage Act: Investigation by Justice Department after national defence documents – some
top secret – are found by FBI at Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, Florida

Capitol riot: Justice Department inquiry into whether Trump incited insurrection during attack on U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021

2020 election: Grand jury investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia

Dec 2022: Manhattan jury convicts two Trump Organization companies of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records during decades-long scheme to avoid paying tax on compensation for top executives.
Trump Organization fined $1.6 million – maximum allowed by law
     

CIVIL CASES
  
May 9, 2023: Manhattan jury finds Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer
E. Jean Carroll (left) – nearly 30 years ago in Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room – awarding her $5 million in damages
 
False valued assets: New York Attorney General files suit against Trump and three of his children. Lawsuit accuses them and their real estate company of fraudulently inflating value of assets by billions of dollars to obtain loans and insurance cover on more favourable terms
  
   
Sources: Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN
Pictures: Getty Images, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
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