Hi, everybody. I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is my Forbes colleague, staff writer Zach Everson.

Zach, thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me again, Brittany.

This is an update to a story you and I have talked about before.

You've reported before that President Donald Trump's felony

convictions could impact his ability to sell alcohol. So before we get into the update here,

can you explain why his legal licenses were potentially in jeopardy? Sure. So as everybody,

I'm sure, remembers, Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying

business records back in May, 2024, uh, related to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels.

At that point, I went through and I looked up the business laws of, um, in the states where his

businesses operate. Uh, New Jersey law prohibits individuals convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude

of having liquor licenses. And according to the state handbook, so I reached out to them and asked,

are you going to be looking into any of the liquor licenses at Donald Trump's three clubs in

the state? They got back and said, yes, we are taking a look at the liquor license in two of them.

And, you know, we're waiting on sentencing before we make any final decisions on that.

So sentencing got delayed.

So New Jersey made it still delayed.

And then, of course, the sentence was largely just dropped when Trump was reelected.

And we didn't hear anything back from New Jersey. So I followed

up with them again recently. So let's get back to what that sentence exactly was. It was after

President Trump was elected for a second term before he was sworn in. So this was at the

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