Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony when a jury in Manhattan found him guilty of 34 counts of falsified business records in May 2024. That followed decisive and costly losses in civil cases: Trump was fined more than half a billion dollars when courts found that he had defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll and committed financial fraud in his business. Trump was also indicted in June 2023 on 37 felony counts related to mishandling classified documents taken from the White House to his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago (the case was later dismissed by a Florida judge). There is also a pending criminal case against Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election.