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New York City's Rikers Island is prepared if erstwhile President Donald Trump is ordered to service clip successful jailhouse amid his unprecedented proceedings successful Manhattan, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.
"Our astonishing commissioner … is prepared for immoderate comes connected Rikers Island," Adams told the media Tuesday erstwhile asked if Rikers, New York City's largest prison, is prepared if Trump is ordered to jailhouse for violating a gag bid imposed during the trial.
"I'm beauteous definite [the Department of Corrections commissioner] would beryllium prepared to negociate and woody with the situation. As you spot what's happening with Harvey Weinstein, we person to conscionable you know, successful this business, peculiarly astir instrumentality enforcement, we person to set immoderate comes our way," helium continued.
"We don't privation to woody with a hypothetical, but they're professionals that volition beryllium ready."
Eric Adams, politician of New York, during a New York State Financial Control Board gathering successful New York, US, connected Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The New York State Financial Control Board discussed the Fiscal Year 2023 adopted fund and fiscal plan. (Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump is presently on proceedings successful Manhattan for 34 counts of falsifying concern records. The lawsuit stems from erstwhile Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paying erstwhile pornographic histrion Stormy Daniels $130,000 to allegedly quiescent her claims of an alleged extramarital matter she had with Trump successful 2006. Trump has repeatedly denied the matter and pleaded not blameworthy to the charges.
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Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization and the president reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged the payments arsenic ineligible expenses. Prosecutors are moving to beryllium that Trump falsified records with the intent to perpetrate oregon conceal a 2nd crime, which is simply a felony.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the property alongside his lawyer Todd Blanche astatine his proceedings for allegedly covering up hush wealth payments astatine Manhattan Criminal Court connected May 7, 2024 successful New York City. Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying concern records, which prosecutors accidental was an effort to fell a imaginable enactment scandal, some earlier and aft the 2016 statesmanlike election. Trump is the archetypal erstwhile U.S. president to look proceedings connected transgression charges. (Win McNamee/Pool via REUTERS)
Presiding Judge Juan Merchan has warned Trump helium could perchance beryllium ordered to jailhouse if helium continues violating a gag bid that prevents him from making oregon directing others to marque nationalist statements astir witnesses and their imaginable information oregon remarks astir tribunal staff, DA unit oregon household members of staff.
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The territory attorney’s office, which is headed up by Democrat Alvin Bragg, argued Trump violated the bid a full of 14 times successful Truth Social posts and connected his campaign's website. Merchan ruled past Tuesday that Trump violated the bid 9 times, resulting successful a $9,000 fine, and held a proceeding past Thursday to see the remaining alleged gag bid violations.
On Monday, Merchan fined the erstwhile president different $1,000 for an further violation, portion arguing that it's "clear" the $1,000 fines for each usurpation are not effective. He said helium would see a jailhouse condemnation for Trump if helium continues to interruption the gag order.
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Views of the New York City jails connected Rikers Island, arsenic seen from a departing formation from Laguardia Airport connected December 10, 2022 successful Queens, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
"The past happening I privation to see is jail," Merchan said. "You are [the] erstwhile president and perchance the adjacent president."
In the judge’s archetypal gag bid ruling past week, helium threatened Trump with jailhouse clip if helium further violated the order, portion besides lamenting not being capable to good Trump much than $1,000 for each violation.
Merchan wrote successful past week's bid that if Trump carries retired "continued willful violations" of the gag order, helium could look "incarceratory punishment" if "necessary and appropriate."
In the substance of his order, Merchan lamented that the fines' costs "unfortunately volition not execute the desired effect successful those instances wherever the contemnor tin easy spend specified a fine."
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Merchan continued that it would beryllium "preferable" if the tribunal "could enforce a good much commensurate with the wealthiness of the contemnor."
"In immoderate cases that mightiness beryllium a $2,500 fine, successful different cases it mightiness beryllium a good of $150,000. Because this Court is not cloaked with specified discretion, it indispensable truthful see whether successful immoderate instances, jailhouse whitethorn beryllium a indispensable punishment," helium said, highlighting again that Trump could look clip down bars if helium continues violating the order.
A tribunal sketch depicts erstwhile President Donald Trump’s quality successful Manhattan Criminal Court successful New York connected Friday, April 19, 2024. Trump’s transgression proceedings is successful its 4th time of assemblage selection. (Christine Cornell)
Trump has railed against the gag bid arsenic "unconstitutional" and said Monday day that he's marque the "sacrifice" of jailhouse clip to support the Constitution.
"I person to ticker each connection I archer you people. You inquire maine a question, a elemental question I'd similar to springiness it, but I can't speech astir it due to the fact that this justice has fixed maine a gag bid and [says] you'll spell to jailhouse if you interruption it," Trump said Monday.
"And frankly, you cognize what? Our Constitution is overmuch much important than jail. It's not adjacent close. I'll bash that sacrifice immoderate day."
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his proceedings for allegedly covering up hush wealth payments astatine Manhattan Criminal Court connected May 7, 2024 successful New York City. Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying concern records, which prosecutors accidental was an effort to fell a imaginable enactment scandal, some earlier and aft the 2016 statesmanlike election. Trump is the archetypal erstwhile U.S. president to look proceedings connected transgression charges. (Win McNamee/Pool via REUTERS)
Fox News reported earlier Tuesday that the Secret Service is holding interior discussions connected however to grip a imaginable jailhouse bid for the 45th president. The Secret Service has not publically weighed successful connected the report, but allegedly kicked disconnected strategies of handling a imaginable jailhouse bid connected Monday.
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Rikers Island is located successful the Bronx connected the East River. It holds astir 6,000 inmates, according to metropolis information published past year.
Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman and Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.
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