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Sentence Building: A Differentiated Literacy Center

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Free sentence building activities! This DIFFERENTIATED writing center will help students practice writing conventions and build reading fluency skills.

As teachers we know that in any classroom you’ll find a wide range of abilities among students.  While we can probably all agree that differentiating instruction is important , meeting the needs of all your students can often feel like a daunting task. In fact, a 2008 report by the Fordham Institute found that 83% of teachers nationwide believe that differentiation is “somewhat” or “very” difficult to implement. 

I want to help you see that differentiation does NOT have to mean more work for you! I love creating resources that allow you to work SMARTER instead of harder and today I’m excited to share with you some free sentence building activities that will engage and support your wide range of learners!

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What is the Sentence Building Center?  

The Sentence Building Center is a hands-on literacy center that will keep students engaged all year long!  They will build seasonal themed sentences with word cards, write the sentences out and then edit them using a checklist. Students can then practice building fluency by reading it to themselves and to a friend!  With 2 versions of each sentence, this center is easily differentiated!  It both supports and challenges students while building confidence and mastery!  

Who benefits from the Sentence Building Center? 

I love this center because all students can gain something valuable from it.  I think we all have students who struggle to form and write complete sentences, need more practice with writing conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, and spacing, or could use more practice reading fluently.  This one center activity provides ALL OF THAT! 

Furthermore, there are 2 versions of each sentence in the center.  One is aimed at emergent readers, while the other is best fit for early fluent readers .   

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Let’s take a closer look at each of these versions so you can determine which level is the best fit for your individual students…

Emergent Sentences

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Readers at this stage have begun to learn sound/symbol relationships–starting with consonants and short vowels–and are able to read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, as well as a number of high-frequency words. Students would benefit from the Emergent Sentences: 

  • illustrations provide strong support while reading text
  • limited text in a sentence
  • contains familiar objects (e.g. dog, letters of the alphabet ) and experiences (e.g. going to school)
  • contains and repeats high-frequency words

Early Fluent Sentences

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Readers at this stage have developed an understanding of the alphabet, phonological awareness, and early phonics. They have command of a significant number of high-frequency words. Students would benefit from the Early Fluent Sentences: 

  • less dependent on illustrations to support the reader 
  • more complex sentence structure
  • possess a richer vocabulary
  • more complex high-frequency words

Want to try this engaging center in your class? Download a sample below!

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DOWNLOAD this FREEBIE HERE!

In addition to matching students to the appropriate level, it is important to take the time to explicitly teach and model the process of this activity in order to promote student success.  Taking time to thoroughly teach your expectations for this center will really pay off because it is one you will use all throughout the year!  Finally, after many requests from upper elementary teachers to create a hands-on activity that would help their students with sentence structure, I’m excited to share a Sentence Building Activity for 3-5 grade students !  YAY!!  

Sentence Building for Upper Grade Students

This activity provides upper grade students with practice building compound and complex sentences.  It requires them to add greater detail to their writing and to edit their work using a self-editing checklist.  The sentences are all based around a seasonal theme but I did go ahead and make the graphics a little less cutesy because well, #uppergrades!  🙂 

Each seasonal resource includes 12 compound and 12 complex themed sentences ready for students to build and record.  There are two different activities you can do with these sentences.  Below is an example using the “Spring” themed sentences.

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For Option #1 students build, read, and record three sentences on the lettered worksheets.

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For Option #2 students build a single sentence and record it on the numbered worksheet that matches the Spring icon. They then use that sentence as the start of a short story to which they’ll add descriptive details. 

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Both sentence building worksheets can be used with the compound or complex sentences and have a self-editing checklist for students to use.

INCLUDED in this resource:

  • Compound sentences list with matching icons
  • Complex sentence list with matching icons
  • 12 build and write sentences with short stories
  • 4 build, read, and record sentences worksheets

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I hope that the Sentence Building Center- K-2 Bundle and the Sentence Building Activity for 3-5 grade students have helped you see that differentiation does not have to equal more work for you!  The right resources have the power to meet the diverse needs of your students, and keep them engaged and excited about learning all year long!  

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Hi Christina

I am very interested in your sentence building freebie but it kept saying the site was unavailable. Is it a problem at my end?

Carla Allen

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Hi Carla, The downloads are hosted in Dropbox, do you think your school may block Dropbox? I know some sites do for some reason. I just checked the links and they are working, try again! 🙂 -Christina

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Do you have a large printable version of the writing checklist?

Hi Tiffany,

You can get that resource here: https://mrswintersbliss.com/product/writing-checklist/

🙂 -Christina

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Thank you for all of your wonderful resources. Is there a set of the sentence building that would be best for K-2 children? From early beginners to slightly more complex sentences? Thank you.

Hi Lydia, I would highly recommend decodable sentence building activities. Take a look at them here>> https://mrswintersbliss.com/decodable-sentence-building/ Let me know if you have any questions! -Christina

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I would love this one too!!

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Alaska woman sentenced to 99 years in murder-for-hire killing of friend

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Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer, one of two young people charged in the 2019  killing of Alaska teenager Cynthia Hoffman in a murder-for-hire scheme, was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Monday.

Court documents showed that Brehmer , then 18, struck up an online relationship with 21-year-old Darin Schilmiller, who was living in Indiana. Schilmiller claimed to be a millionaire and said he would send Brehmer $9 million in exchange for photos and videos of a killing. He did not name a target.

Brehmer allegedly offered four other friends a cut of the money if they helped her, CBS News previously reported , and Brehmer and then-16-year-old Kayden McIntosh allegedly lured Hoffman on a hike. During the hike, Hoffman was shot in the back of the head and put into a river. Police found Hoffman's body one day after she was reported missing. McIntosh's trial in the case is pending.

Brehmer, now 23,  pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in February 2023 after charges of conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation of murder, tampering with evidence, and murder in the second degree were dismissed. Nearly a year later, her sentencing occurred over three days in January and February 2024. The 99-year sentence was the maximum penalty the court was permitted to impose, according to a news release from Alaska's Department of Law.

Denali Brehmer, 18, appears in a courtroom for an arraignment hearing in Anchorage, Alaska, June 18, 2019.

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson called Hoffman's murder "tragic and senseless" and noted that Brehmer showed no remorse after the murder and went on to engage in other criminal conduct at Schilmiller's request. 

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In January, Schilmiller was  sentenced to 99 years in prison  by Peterson for his role in the murder after being extradited to Alaska.

Caleb Leyland, another friend involved in the murder-for-hire scheme, pleaded guilty to one charge of second-degree murder in November, after charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder were dismissed. His sentencing is scheduled for June in front of the same judge who sentenced Brehmer.

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An informant named Alexander Smirnov told the FBI four years ago that Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, engaged in a bribery scheme to take millions of dollars from a Ukrainian energy company. Republicans on Capitol Hill pointed to it as evidence of criminal wrongdoing in their ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Biden. Turns out it was all a lie. That is according to an indictment against Smirnov brought yesterday by special counsel David Weiss. NPR political correspondent Susan Davis joins us now for more on this and what it means for a possible impeachment. Hi, Sue.

SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE: Hey, Juana.

SUMMERS: So, Sue, tell us. Who exactly is Smirnov, and what's he charged with?

DAVIS: So according to court papers, Smirnov has been a long-time FBI informant dating back to 2010. And he's charged on two counts - making false statements and creating a false and fictitious record. Now, Smirnov allegedly told the FBI back in 2020 that when Joe Biden was vice president, he and his son Hunter took millions of dollars from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company and used their influence to shield this company from investigators. Prosecutors say Smirnov made that all up. They say he also suggested he had a political bias, that he had made repeated negative remarks to his FBI handler about Joe Biden, even saying at one point in a text message that Biden was going to end up in jail - important to note, as you noted, Juana, this indictment was brought by David Weiss. He was a Trump appointed attorney, and he's also been leading a years-long investigation into Hunter Biden that has separately resulted in criminal charges for tax and gun crimes against the president's son.

SUMMERS: And so help us if you can understand how exactly Alexander Smirnov fit into the impeachment inquiry in the House.

DAVIS: Yeah. So he's been involved in one of the more high-profile allegations in the inquiry. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer last year released a public letter to the FBI saying that they had received credible information from a whistleblower, which we now know to be Smirnov, that there was evidence of a criminal scheme involving Biden. The committee spent months publicly pressuring the FBI to release this information to the committee. At one point, Comer even threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt over it. It was also cited by Speaker Kevin McCarthy last fall when he announced the House would move forward with its formal impeachment inquiry and why it was justified.

SUMMERS: Right. So then how much does this indictment undermine Republicans' case for impeachment against President Biden?

DAVIS: You know, it makes a weak case a bit weaker. Republicans have found a lot of damning things about the president's son, but they haven't offered clear evidence to date of impeachable offenses by the president. And you don't have to take my word for that, Juana. This is a point that has been raised by many Republican senators who would ultimately hold a trial if House Republicans were to pass articles of impeachment.

But Republicans are under a lot of pressure. They're under pressure from Donald Trump. They're under pressure from their base to impeach Biden. And House Republicans didn't really seem to blink at this indictment. In a statement, Comer criticized the FBI's handling of the investigation and pointed out that their inquiry is not reliant on this piece of information alone. The committee has been looking at other bank records and have other witness testimony that have made allegations about the president. But, again, no exact official act or crime I could point you to. But Comer did reiterate today impeachment still on the table.

SUMMERS: Sue, what have you heard from Democrats? How have they been responding?

DAVIS: You know, President Biden was asked about this today at the White House. He said it was reason for the inquiry to end. He said it's been an outrageous effort from the start. In a statement, Hunter Biden's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said it proves their longstanding defense that the impeachment inquiry has been built on a number of conspiracy theories. And there is some skepticism among House Republicans that the party hasn't made a strong enough case to sell impeachment to the public. This is clearly a setback in that regard.

SUMMERS: NPR political correspondent Susan Davis. Thank you.

DAVIS: You're welcome.

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Where Is Yolanda SaldĂ­var Now? All About the Prison Sentence of Selena's Killer

Yolanda SaldĂ­var, who was found guilty of murdering Selena Quintanilla in October 1995, speaks out in a new Oxygen docuseries

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Selena Quintanilla ’s death rocked the music industry when she was tragically killed in 1995. 

Just two weeks ahead of what would have been her 24th birthday, the Tejano superstar was fatally shot by Yolanda SaldĂ­var, who'd been the president of the singer's fan club.

While Selena’s family has kept her memory alive in the years following her death , her killer SaldĂ­var has rarely spoken publicly until now. 

In a new Oxygen True Crime docuseries titled Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them , Saldívar speaks out almost 30 years after the Grammy winner’s slaying.

Here’s everything to know about the crimes Saldívar committed and where she is now. 

Who is Yolanda SaldĂ­var?

Born on Sept. 19, 1960, in San Antonio, Texas, Saldívar was a registered nurse before she came to know Selena. After seeing the singer in concert, she reportedly called Selena's father Abraham Quintanilla about starting a fan club. 

Through the fan club, where she served as the president, Saldívar infiltrated herself into Selena’s life, becoming one of her close friends and a business associate. Eventually, she was promoted as manager of Selena's clothing boutiques, Selena Etc., giving her access to Selena’s business checking accounts.

According to those close to Selena, SaldĂ­var began to show obsessive behavior. Selena’s fashion designer, Martin Gomez, told The Washington Post that SaldĂ­var was often difficult to work with. 

"She'd get, like, very angry if you crossed her,” Gomez told the publication. “She would play so many mind games, say people had said things they hadn't said,” he explained. “So many things would happen to the clothing I was working on. I knew that I had finished a certain piece, but I would come back from a trip to New York and the hems would be ripped out. It was very strange."

"The last call I had with Selena, the last call, I told her to be careful," Gomez recalled. "It was very weird. I was very afraid of Yolanda. But I never thought she would hurt Selena. I never thought it would come to this."

What crimes did Yolanda SaldĂ­var commit?

Things took a turn in early 1995 as Selena’s father became suspicious that Saldívar was embezzling money after several employees informed him that they had overdue payments on their payrolls. 

On March 9, 1995, Abraham, Selena and her sister Suzette confronted SaldĂ­var and accused her of stealing money from the boutiques and the fan club. As a result, Abraham fired SaldĂ­var.

Two days after Selena confronted her, SaldĂ­var applied for a permit to purchase a gun from a gun store in San Antonio, witnesses testified during her trial, per the Associated Press . At the time, SaldĂ­var told gun store employees that family members of mentally ill people for whom she worked had made threats against her, according to the AP. She bought the gun that killed the singer on March 26, five days before the murder, per the AP.

On March 31, Selena agreed to meet SaldĂ­var at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi to retrieve various financial records SaldĂ­var still had in her possession. However, during their meeting, SaldĂ­var delayed handing over the papers, alleging she had been raped the night before, per USA Today . Per the publication, Selena then took SaldĂ­var to the hospital for examination, where doctors found no evidence of rape. 

As the two returned to the motel, Selena demanded the paperwork again. SaldĂ­var then pulled out her gun and shot the singer in the back, severing an artery. Selena was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead from blood loss and cardiac arrest.

What was Yolanda Saldívar’s prison sentence?

After shooting Selena, SaldĂ­var remained in the motel’s parking lot, where she locked herself in her truck and threatened to kill herself, per The New York Times . 

She eventually surrendered and was arrested and later charged with first-degree murder.

A trial was held at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston, Texas, starting on Oct. 9, 1995. Before the trial in April 1995, SaldĂ­var was arraigned and pleaded not guilty, with her defense attorneys arguing that the fatal shooting was an accident and that Saldivar was trying to kill herself not Selena, per CNN .

On Oct. 23, a verdict was reached and SaldĂ­var was found guilty of murder. She was later sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 30 years.

Where is Yolanda SaldĂ­var now?

SaldĂ­var is currently serving a life sentence at the Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas, which is operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Per her sentence, she will become eligible for parole on March 30, 2025.

SaldĂ­var has only given a handful of interviews in the years following Selena’s murder. During an interview with ABC’s “20/20” in 1995, she maintained that she did not deliberately kill Selena, saying “They made me out to be a monster, and I just want to say, I did not kill Selena. It was an accident, and my conscience is clear.” 

In the new Oxygen True Crime docuseries Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them , Saldívar speaks from prison as she discusses her professional and personal relationship with Selena. Per a press release from Oxygen, Saldívar’s family also speaks out “for the first time” as they “share never-before-revealed documents and recordings in an effort to show there was more to the tragedy than the public knows.”

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In our kindergarten reading comprehension section, we have a whole section of worksheets that have students practice reading simple sentences .

Matching sentences to pictures

These worksheets have students work on reading sentences and drawing lines to the pictures those sentences describe.

Cut and paste pictures to sentences

Equipped with scissors, students cut out pictures and then paste them below sentences describing those pictures.

Trace sentences and match them to pictures

In these worksheets, students start by tracing sentences and then draw lines to the correct pictures.

Unscrambling sentences with scissors

Students grab their scissors again for these worksheets. They cut out the segments and put them in the correct order to create a full sentence .

Complete each sentence practice

Given an option of two words, students complete the sentences in these worksheets.

Illustrating sentences worksheets

Students practice reading sentences and then draw a picture to illustrate each sentence .

Repeating of sentences for fluency

Next, we move onto reading fluency. These worksheets introduce reading fluency one word at a time. The intent is that students read every word to repeat the sentence to its fullest.

Re-reading sentences for fluency

Students are asked to read sentences three times , in these worksheets. Check boxes are provided to confirm each time a sentence is read.

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The next two sets of worksheets introduce riddles to kids . The first set has students match riddles to pictures and writing the answers on a line.

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The next set is missing the pictures, so it’s a little more advanced. Students answer the riddles by writing the answers on a line. An answer bank is provided.

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Ruling expected in Donald Trump’s $370m New York fraud trial

Judge delayed ruling to set fine in trial over Trump’s New York business dealings after late-breaking information came to light

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A judge is expected to rule on whether Donald Trump should pay a $370m fine in his New York fraud trial and face a lifetime ban from the New York real estate industry.

The New York attorney general’s office sued Trump for inflating the value of his assets on government financial statements. Trump’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, and two former Trump Organization executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, are also defendants in the case.

The New York AG’s office initially asked for $250m in disgorgement, or the amount of money that was wrongfully profited after Trump fudged his net worth. In their written closing arguments in January, prosecutors ended up bumping up their disgorgement figure to $370m.

Prosecutors are also asking the judge, Arthur Engoron, to ban Trump from the New York real estate industry. It’s a similar punishment to that which a New York federal court meted out to “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli after he was found guilty of price-gouging a life-saving drug. Prosecutors in the Trump case cited the Shkreli ruling as an example of what they see as a fitting punishment for Trump.

The fine and a ban would be on top of the punishment Engoron instructed in his September pre-trial ruling , when he ordered the cancellation of Trump’s business licenses. Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing, has appealed that ruling and will undoubtedly appeal a second guilty verdict.

A spokesperson for the New York supreme court said that Engoron is expected to release his ruling on Friday. Engoron had initially said he anticipated ruling by the end of January, but two developments seemed to throw him off schedule.

The first was a letter from a former judge, Barbara Jones, who is currently acting as the court-appointed monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s financial reporting. In a letter submitted to the court at the end of January, Jones said the Trump Organization submitted financial “disclosures that are either incomplete, present results inconsistently, and/or contain errors”.

Jones specifically pointed to a $48m personal loan Trump received from an entity affiliated with his Chicago building in 2012. Though Trump had reported the loan as a liability on his financial statements for years, Jones could not find any record of it, and the company ultimately determined that “this loan never existed”.

A second development in early February also delayed the ruling. Weisselberg, a longtime Trump executive who served as chief financial officer of the company, was said to be in talks with the Manhattan district attorney’s office for a plea deal over a separate trial. The New York Times reported that Weisselberg was considering a deal to plead guilty in Trump’s fraud trial in order to not be called as a witness in Trump’s separate hush-money trial, which is scheduled to take place on 25 March.

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Though Engoron eventually emailed lawyers in the trial to disclose what they knew about the deal, both sides urged Engoron to push forward with his verdict.

In an all-caps post on Truth Social posted on Wednesday, Trump said: “ENGORON WRONGFULLY RULED AGAINST ME BEFORE THE TRIAL EVEN STARTED.

“THIS CROOKED JUDGMENT WILL BE A DARK AND SAD DAY FOR THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN NEW YORK STATE.”

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The new york attorney general’s office says trump will also have to pay interest in the case that so far adds up to nearly $100 million.

NEW YORK — A judge on Friday ordered former president Donald Trump to pay more than $350 million in penalties, plus interest, following a civil fraud trial, finding that he and others had carried out a years-long scheme to use “blatantly false financial data” to borrow money at lower rates.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron issued a deluge of punishments, including years-long bans on Trump and his adult sons taking top jobs in companies in the state, and he did so with biting language, castigating defendants as stubbornly unwilling to admit fault or acknowledge reality.

“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological,” Engoron, who heard the case without a jury, said in a written decision.

Read the full ruling from Judge Engoron in Trump’s civil fraud trial

Engoron’s decision was a stinging loss for Trump, and it marked the latest legal and financial defeat he has suffered over the last year. Over that span, Trump has been charged in four criminal cases, including one set to go to trial in Manhattan next month, and juries have ordered him to pay nearly $90 million to a writer who sued him for defamation. He is also fighting court battles seeking to stay on some states’ ballots in the upcoming presidential election, all while seeking another term in office.

Trump, in a statement, called the decision “a Complete and Total SHAM,” while his attorneys pledged to appeal what they called “a draconian and unconstitutional fine.” Engoron ordered Trump to pay more than $354 million in penalties.

The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed in 2022 by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who sued Trump, his namesake company, some of his adult children and certain company executives, accusing them of participating in an expansive financial fraud. Because this case was civil, not criminal, none of the defendants faced any time behind bars.

In her lawsuit, James accused the defendants of falsely inflating the values of assets in financial documents to secure better terms from lenders and insurers.

She accused Trump of purposefully inflating his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion annually, and said he and other defendants “engaged in numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” while preparing Trump’s annual financial statements dealing with “at least the years 2011 through 2021.”

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James praised Engoron’s decision Friday, saying that “white-collar financial fraud is not a victimless crime.”

“Today, we are holding Donald Trump accountable,” she said. “We are holding him accountable for lying, cheating, and a lack of contrition and for flouting the rules that all of us must play by.”

The decision Friday means Trump has been hit with more than $440 million in combined penalties and judgments following civil trials in New York courthouses over the last nine months — and the final tally will probably be much higher, since Engoron’s decision also ordered him to pay interest. According to James’s office, the interest in the case adds up to nearly $100 million.

Trump has long denied wrongdoing in the case and accused James of being politically motivated, a claim he and his attorneys reiterated Friday. Speaking briefly after Engoron’s decision was released, Trump defended his business practices and insisted no fraud took place.

“The banks all got their money, a hundred percent,” Trump said. “They love Trump.”

Trump also claimed, without evidence, that he was only sued because of his presidential campaign.

James’s lawsuit and her court case portrayed a brazen scheme on the part of Trump and the other defendants, in which basic facts were discarded at will. During the trial, Kevin Wallace, an attorney with James’s office, said the defendants used “knowing and intentional lies” in their financial statements. In one example in the lawsuit, Trump’s Trump Tower triplex apartment was described as “being 30,000 square feet when it was 10,996 square feet.”

Trump’s attorneys in the case said that nothing illegal took place and that real estate values are subjective. They have also noted that no complaints were made over any of the loans at issue in the case.

“There was no illegality, there was no fraud, there are no victims,” Christopher Kise, an attorney for Trump, said during the trial. He later said James was trying “to pursue a victimless fraud and impose the corporate death penalty.”

Engoron already ruled before the trial that Trump and his company broadly committed fraud. The trial, which began in October , was held to determine whether any illegal acts occurred during the commission of the fraud and what, if any, penalties should be handed down to the defendants.

More than a month after the trial’s proceedings concluded, Engoron on Friday released his decision and laid out penalties — and not just for Trump.

Two of his adult children — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who were also defendants in the case — were fined $4 million each. Both men were blocked from serving as an officer or a director for any New York corporation for two years.

Clifford S. Robert, an attorney for the two men, called the decision “a gross injustice” and said the trial failed to provide any evidence that “remotely suggested” either of his clients or their father was involved in preparing the financial statements at issue in the case.

Trump and two former top financial officials with his company — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer, and Jeffrey McConney, who reported to him — were all blocked from working as directors or officers for any New York corporation for three years.

Weisselberg and McConney were given lifetime bans from working in “the financial control function” of any New York company, and Weisselberg was also found to be liable for $1 million. Trump and his company were also blocked from seeking loans from financial institutions in New York for three years.

“The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience,” Engoron wrote.

In addition, Engoron said more layers of supervision were needed at the Trump Organization.

He ordered the appointment of an independent director of compliance, and said that former federal judge Barbara Jones, an independent monitor already overseeing the Trump Organization’s financial disclosures, will continue in that role for at least three years.

She will take on additional duties, Engoron wrote, “as her observations over the past 14 months indicate that still more oversight is required.” Jones wrote in a status report last month that she had identified “certain deficiencies in the financial information that I have reviewed.”

Her comments prompted an irritated response from Robert, the attorney, who wrote on behalf of all defendants in this case that Jones was trying to “manipulate innocuous accounting items into a narrative favoring her continued receipt of millions in excessive fees.”

Engoron in his decision Friday also revisited a pretrial ruling he issued in the case in September, in which he ordered the cancellation of certificates related to New York-based Trump entities. Experts have debated what the order might mean for Trump’s business empire, and it was expected that Engoron’s decision could offer more guidance.

Engoron said Friday that since there will be “two-tiered oversight” in the form of Jones and the compliance director, he was no longer requiring the cancellations. Instead, Jones and the compliance director would determine the certificates’ futures.

The trial appeared to madden Trump, who has long touted himself as a pillar of business success. He attended the trial a number of times across 10 weeks of testimony, frequently pausing on his way in and out of the courtroom to deliver remarks excoriating the case to journalists and cameras nearby.

Engoron at one point issued a narrow gag order blocking Trump from commenting on his staff, after he posted about the judge’s law clerk on social media, then fined him twice for violating it.

Trump’s commentary on the case did not end at the courtroom’s door. When Trump took the stand in November , he clashed with Engoron, belittled James and defended his companies and his net worth. Then, when closing remarks were delivered in the case in January, Trump made an extended speech in the courtroom, accusing the judge of having “your own agenda” and saying that Trump should himself be paid “for what we’ve had to go through,” not fined.

In his decision Friday, Engoron was critical of Trump’s performance on the stand, saying he “rarely responded to the questions asked, and he frequently interjected long, irrelevant speeches on issues far beyond the scope of the trial.”

“His refusal to answer the questions directly, or in some cases, at all, severely compromised his credibility,” Engoron added.

Engoron took a withering look at the defense and defendants in the case. Trump and others “submitted blatantly false financial data” to accountants, he wrote, leading to the flawed financial statements.

“When confronted at trial with the statements, defendants’ fact and expert witnesses simply denied reality, and defendants failed to accept responsibility or to impose internal controls to prevent future recurrences,” Engoron said.

He also expressed bafflement at the defendants’ insistence on not acknowledging any wrongdoing, saying they only admitted one error — the size of the Trump Tower apartment.

Defendants, Engoron wrote, were accused of inflating asset valuations to make some money, not committing murder.

“Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways,” Engoron said.

Berman reported from Washington. Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Jonathan O’Connell and Azi Paybarah in Washington, and Wesley Parnell in New York contributed to this report.

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