President-elect Donald Trump is being sentenced in New York after he was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. In a ruling last month, Judge Juan Merchan said a “sentence of an unconditional discharge appears to be the most viable solution to ensure finality.

Ten days ahead of his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning in New York for committing what the judge in his case characterized as a "premeditated and continuous deception" to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.