Judge imposes $61K penalty on Omarosa for failing to file financial disclosure

In this Aug. 14, 2019, photo, Omarosa Manigault Newman speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. | Mary Altaffer, File/AP Photo

By Josh Gerstein

03/15/2022 06:18 PM EDT

Updated: 03/15/2022 06:41 PM EDT

A judge on Tuesday hit former White House official Omarosa Manigault Newman with a $61,585 penalty for ignoring her duty to file a financial disclosure report after she was fired from her post as a communications aide to President Donald Trump in December 2017.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon rejected Manigault Newman’s claims that her firing was so abrupt that she

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