The Manhattan judge who is presiding over the New York attorney general's investigation into the Trump Organization found Donald Trump's company in contempt and ordered them to pay a $10,000 a day fine.
When Trump failed to comply with subpoenas, the judge set a daily fine. Before his contempt order was lifted, Trump had to give up a $110,000 check from his cumulative fine.
The judge criticized the company for having "only itself to blame if it chose to treat the looming deadlines cavalierly."
The subpoeana for the yet-filed documents had been filed back in September.
Lawyers for the AG asked Engoron to respond to the missed deadline with an enforcement action.
The first request is for all documents and communications concerning any work done for Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization. "All documents and communications concerning any work performed on property or assets owned by Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization."
The database of 72 million pages of emails from current and former employees was behind in the process of being sorted.
The judge wrote that the court found that the willful non-compliance with deadlines warrants sanctions.
The Court found the company to be in contempt of court and ordered them to pay a fine of $10,000 per day for every day they fail to do so.
The contempt order shows a failure to understand the extreme lengths Cushman has gone to in order to comply with the court's order, according to a rep for the company.
Over 650 appraisals and hundreds of thousands of pages have been turned over.
"Cushman disagrees with any suggestion that the firm has not exercised diligence and good faith in complying with the court's order," he said.
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