Donald Trump was found guilty in May of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

In an extraordinary turn, a judge has set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn't be jailed.

Donald Trump will take charge as the US President on January 20. The Republican President's decisions will be watched keenly.

Judge Juan Merchan indicated that he’d sentence Trump to what’s known as a conditional discharge, in which a case gets dismissed if a defendant avoids rearrest.

The judge, Juan Merchan, indicated that he favored a so-called unconditional discharge of Trump’s sentence, a rare and lenient alternative to jail or probation. He set a sentencing date of Jan. 10, rebuffing Trump’s request to overturn the jury’s verdict.

President-elect Donald Trump vented late Friday about a New York jurist who scheduled Trump's sentencing in his hush-money case for 10 days before his January 20 inauguration. Although Juan Merchan, acting justice on the New York State Supreme Court,

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York dealt with a host of weighty, unprecedented questions before deciding Friday that the president-elect should be sentenced later this mon