11 of 11 overlay dives on this recordThe six universal dives are asked of every subject at this tier. This is not one of them. It exists because of one thing this subject has been — executive / owner — and a subject who has not been that never gets this page. That is why this record has 11 overlay dives to write rather than a number every record shares. All six base dives were written first, and that ordering is a rule rather than a habit: an overlay dive published on its own is a page about the part of someone chosen by whoever built it.
The six base dives and the other 10 overlay dives are listed on the full record.
Conduct 1986–88; fine disclosed from 1996$292,500
Plaza Associates — Trump Plaza
U.S. Treasury, Office of Financial Enforcement
Failure to file a Currency Transaction Report by Casino for 65 individual transactions over $10,000, between 31 October 1986 and 10 December 1988.
CONTROL — A subsidiary of the company he then controlled.
The company’s own annual report. No separate regulator release was located for this matter.
Conduct 1990–91; paid December 1997, assessed 1998$477,000 / $477,700
Taj Associates — Trump Taj Mahal
U.S. Treasury / FinCEN, following an IRS audit
Failure to timely file Currency Transaction Reports, 106 violations, arising from an audit of the period 2 April 1990 to 31 December 1991.
CONTROL — A subsidiary of the company he then controlled.
The company reports paying $477,000 in December 1997. FinCEN’s 2015 release reports assessing $477,700 in 1998 for the same audit. Both figures are printed here.
16 January 2002no fine
Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Cease-and-desist order under Section 21C for violating Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5. An earnings release stated that net income excluded an $81.4m one-time closing charge, implying no other one-time items — while the stated figure included an undisclosed one-time gain of $17.2m.
CONTROL — He was chairman; the company bore his name and he controlled it.
SEC Exchange Act Release 34-45287, and the company’s own account of the settlement offer in its next annual report.
6 March 2015$10,000,000
Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
A civil money penalty for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. The casino admitted it failed to implement and maintain an effective anti-money-laundering programme, failed to report suspicious transactions, failed to properly file currency transaction reports and failed to keep required records.
CONTROL — Not his to control by then. The casino carried his name under a trademark license; the last annual report the company filed, in March 2012, records control sitting with Avenue Capital. The Taj petitioned for bankruptcy in September 2014 and the bankruptcy court approved this settlement on 4 March 2015.
FinCEN news release, 6 March 2015.
20 July 2023$18,000,000
Digital World Acquisition Corp.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Settled fraud charges for material misrepresentations in IPO and merger filings — the SPAC stated that neither it nor its officers had held discussions with any potential target before its IPO, when merger discussions with TMTG dated back to February 2021.
CONTROL — Not his company and not his conduct as charged: the misstatements were the SPAC’s, in 2021, before any merger. The penalty was payable only in the event the SPAC closed a merger — which is why it appears in the merged company’s filings.
SEC press release 2023-135 and order 33-11213, 20 July 2023.
Disclosed 2024, 2025 and 2026a disclosure, not a penalty
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.
Not an action. The company prints the January 2002 order in its own risk factors — "A publicly-traded entity controlled by President Donald J. Trump has previously been subject to a cease and desist order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission" — in three consecutive annual reports.
CONTROL — He controls the company making the disclosure.
The company’s own annual reports on Form 10-K.