NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A New York choose on Friday sentenced Donald Trump’s namesake actual property firm to pay a $1.6 million prison penalty, after it was convicted of scheming to defraud tax authorities for 15 years.
Justice Juan Merchan of the Manhattan prison courtroom imposed the sentence, after jurors discovered two Trump Group associates responsible of 17 prison costs final month.
The penalty was the utmost the choose may have imposed.
Reporting by Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Modifying by Chizu Nomiyama
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