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Friday February 16th. I'm Anne Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

A Manhattan judge has ordered Donald Trump and his business to pay more than 350 million dollars

for misrepresenting his wealth for financial gain. The judge also placed

restrictions on his future business activity. The former president has denounced

the case as a partisan abuse of the justice system and he's vowed to fight on in higher courts.

Corinne Ramey covers federal law enforcement and white collar crime for the Wall Street Journal and she joins me now to explain the ruling.

Welcome back, Corin.

Thanks for having me.

So Corinne, there are two big pieces here.

Let's start with the big number, the financial piece of this.

What are the details?

So the judge on Friday ordered Trump to pay more than 350 million.

This was awfully close to what Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, had asked for.

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