Delayed antitrust stock-filing settlement
- Promised
- Trump described his business record as evidence that he could turn projects from vision into completion.Open cited record · 1 source
- The record
- The government alleged that Trump acquired voting securities without timely filings required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.Open cited record · 2 sourcesA final civil judgment resolved the filing case and imposed a civil penalty.Open cited record · 2 sources
- Who paid
- Federal Trade Commission
- Securities issuers and investors
- Audit finding
- contradicted
The settlement contradicts a record of full procedural compliance for the cited acquisitions, while preserving the no-admission status.
Causal strength: documented mechanism