When ex-US President Donald Trump woke up on Saturday (Feb 17), his total legal debt obligations had soared to over half a billion dollars. A day before, a New York Judge ruled that he must cough up more than $350 million plus pre-judgment interest for intentional financial fraud stretching more than a decade.
According to New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the case against Trump, the GOP leader may be forced to pay $463.9 million in total. “That represents $363.9 million in disgorgement, plus $100 million in interest, which will continue to increase every single day until it is paid,” she said in a press conference Friday night.
This penalty came weeks after he was ordered to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean…