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The racketeering suit against Hillary Clinton that drew a $938,000 sanction
Broken“[paraphrase] Trump promised to sue Hillary Clinton, the DNC and dozens of others for conspiring to fabricate the Russia collusion story — and filed a 193-page RICO complaint.”
- Promised
- , Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Re-promised
- 2 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Justice & the courts
- Era
- Between terms
What happened
Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the amended complaint as a "shotgun pleading" whose claims were "foreclosed by existing law," writing that "this case should never have been brought" and "no reasonable lawyer would have filed it." In January 2023 he sanctioned Trump and attorney Alina Habba nearly $1 million — $937,989 — for a "continuing pattern" of misusing the courts. The 11th Circuit upheld both the dismissal and the penalty, calling the arguments "frivolous."