President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing for falsifying business records is scheduled for January 10th, just days before his inauguration. New York Judge Juan Merchan indicated a preference against incarceration and acknowledged the possibility of postponing proceedings until after Trump's presidential term if a sentence cannot be issued before his swearing-in. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in May related to a hush-money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 10 in New York , 10 days before he is sworn in to be president of the United States.
Proceedings had been indefinitely stayed in order for Trump's legal team to argue that the case be dismissed.After about a day and a half of deliberations, 12 New York jurors said last May that they unanimously agreed that Trump falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to influence the 2016 contest.
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