[H]ere’s an updated, as-of January 26, 2026 status report for the people/cases you listed (and the related matters you summarized in Dec. 2024). I’m focusing on (1) what happened, (2) what’s still pending, especially appeals, and (3) corrections where your 2024 summary is now outdated.

A) Trump criminal cases

1) New York “hush money / falsifying business records” (34 felony counts)

• Verdict: Still 34 felony convictions (jury verdict May 2024).

• Current posture (Jan 26, 2026): Direct appeal is still pending in New York state court (no final appellate decision yet as of this date, based on available reporting). Also, Trump has continued efforts to move the case into federal court (a renewed removal attempt is being litigated).

• What to watch: (i) state appellate ruling on the merits; (ii) federal removal ruling (and any further appeal) because removal can change the forum and potentially the handling of certain defenses.

(Note: your Dec. 2024 line about “sentencing postponed indefinitely” is no longer the best description; by 2026 the key live issue is appeal + removal litigation, not a “sentencing TBD” posture.)

2) Federal classified documents case (Southern District of Florida; Jack Smith)

• Dismissed in 2024 by Judge Cannon; the key update by 2026 is that the prosecution is not currently active (the case is not in a trial posture). (If you want, I can give you a “procedural timeline” version — dismissal → appeal steps → where it ultimately landed — but that requires pulling a couple additional docket/official summaries.)

3) Federal election interference case (D.C.; Jack Smith)

• No active prosecution as of Jan 26, 2026 (the case was dropped after the 2024 election and DOJ’s sitting-president policy was cited in contemporaneous coverage).

4) Georgia election interference (Fulton County RICO)

• Dismissed in its entirety (Nov 26, 2025). The new prosecutor (Skandalakis) moved to drop the case; Judge McAfee dismissed it.

• As of Jan 26, 2026: No active Georgia prosecution and no pending Georgia trial date. (If there are any residual appeals by other parties, they’re not described in major-wire updates as keeping the case alive against Trump.)

B) Trump civil cases (major money judgments)

1) New York civil fraud case (Letitia James v. Trump et al.)

• Major change since your 2024 summary: On Aug 21, 2025, a New York appellate court threw out/voided the roughly half-billion-dollar monetary penalty, while preserving liability (i.e., it wasn’t a full wipeout).

• Pending appeal: New York AG Letitia James planned further appeal after that ruling.

• Bottom line as of Jan 26, 2026: liability findings remain significant, but the money-penalty piece is the part most clearly in continued appellate motion.

2) E. Jean Carroll v. Trump (two cases)

• $5 million verdict (sexual abuse + defamation): The Second Circuit upheld it (Dec 30, 2024) and later refused to reconsider (June 13, 2025).

• $83.3 million verdict (defamation): The Second Circuit upheld it (Sept 8, 2025).

• Pending appeal: After a Circuit loss, the realistic “next step” is a Supreme Court petition; coverage at the time described that as a possible move, but the key point for your list is: both verdicts stood as of late 2025, with no reversal.

C) Trump Organization criminal conviction

• Trump Organization entities (Trump Corp / Trump Payroll Corp): still convicted (Dec 2022) and fined ~$1.6M (max under NY law).

• Appeal status (as of Jan 26, 2026): I do not see a reliable mainstream update showing the conviction was overturned; so the safest summary is: conviction stands unless/until reversed (no widely reported reversal found in the sources pulled here).

D) People: criminal convictions / prison sentences / disbarments (updates)

Already in your list — with 2026 updates

Steve Bannon

• Contempt of Congress sentence: served; released Oct 29, 2024.

• NY “We Build the Wall” state case: pled guilty Feb 11, 2025; sentenced to conditional release (no new jail term).

Peter Navarro

• Contempt of Congress: sentenced to 4 months (Jan 25, 2024); Supreme Court denied bid to stay out during appeal.

• Later reporting describes him as having served the four months (so he’s not “pending reporting to prison” anymore as of 2026).

Allen Weisselberg (Trump Org CFO)

• Perjury (civil fraud testimony): pled guilty (Mar 4, 2024) and was sentenced to 5 months (Apr 10, 2024).

• (Your May 2025 update that he “served an additional five months for perjury” matches this.)

Michael Cohen

• 2018 federal convictions remain the core criminal disposition; he completed his sentence years ago and remains disbarred in New York (unless and until reinstated through NY’s separate process).

Rudy Giuliani

• Disbarment: New York disbarment (July 2, 2024) and D.C. disbarment (Sept 26, 2024) remain in effect.

Jenna Ellis

• Colorado suspension: 3-year suspension effective July 2, 2024 (so, absent early reinstatement, that runs into mid-2027).

John Eastman

• California: State Bar Court recommended disbarment; later updates kept the case moving through the California discipline pipeline (often with CA Supreme Court as the final stage).

Kenneth Chesebro

• New York: disbarred (June 26, 2025) by NY Appellate Division (Third Department).

Sidney Powell

• Texas disciplinary attempt: Powell won — a Texas appellate court upheld dismissal of the bar’s disciplinary case (Apr 18, 2024).

• Michigan “Kraken” sanctions: U.S. Supreme Court declined review (Feb 2024) and later denied rehearing (April 2024).

L. Lin Wood

• Gave up law license / retired rather than fight disciplinary proceedings (reported July 2023).

Manafort / Flynn / Gates / Papadopoulos / Stone / Broidy

• Your 2024 descriptions are still essentially right: convictions happened, and several received Trump pardons (Manafort/Flynn/Papadopoulos/Stone/Broidy). Example: DOJ’s official clemency list reflects Papadopoulos’ pardon.

• If you want, I can produce a “clean table” showing: conviction, sentence, clemency, and whether any case remains open (most do not, criminally).

E) Your specific request: “people who worked for Trump’s private businesses” and were convicted / disbarred / served prison

Based on widely documented Trump-business prosecutions, the clearest, defensible list (without over-claiming) is:

1. Allen Weisselberg — Trump Organization CFO — felony tax plea (2022) and later felony perjury plea (2024); jail sentences served.

2. Trump Corporation & Trump Payroll Corporation (Trump Organization entities) — convicted (2022) in NY criminal tax fraud scheme (corporate criminal conviction; fine).

3. Michael Cohen — held Trump Org title (VP/special counsel) and was Trump’s personal attorney — federal convictions and NY disbarment.

Caution: It’s very easy to accidentally over-include people here because many Trump Org employees were witnesses, defendants in civil matters, or alleged participants without being convicted. If you want the list to be exhaustive, the right method is to anchor it to charging instruments / judgments (NY docket + SDNY docket + DA press releases) and build from there.

If you want, David, I can also deliver this as a one-page “scorecard table” (Person → Role → Case → Disposition → Sentence → Clemency → Appeal status → Last major date). That format makes it much easier to reuse in a blog post or video script without your head exploding (always a bonus).

Sure thing, David — here is a clean, updated, legally precise summary of Trump- and Trump-entity bankruptcies, current as of January 26, 2026. I’ll keep this in a format that is useful both analytically and for writing or video work.

TRUMP & TRUMP-RELATED BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES

(Complete and Updated Summary — January 26, 2026)

Key point up front:
👉 Donald Trump himself has never personally filed for bankruptcy.
👉 Six major Trump-affiliated business entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1991 and 2009.

This distinction matters legally, politically, and rhetorically.

A. The Six Trump-Related Corporate Bankruptcies

1) Trump Taj Mahal Casino (Atlantic City) – 1991

• Entity: Trump Taj Mahal Associates

• Bankruptcy Type: Chapter 11

• Cause: Excessive leverage, debt servicing failure, casino market downturn

• Outcome:

  • Trump gave up 50% ownership

  • Bondholders took major losses

  • Casino continued operating but:

    • Filed again in 2009

    • Closed permanently in 2016

• Final Status: Defunct

2) Trump Plaza Hotel (NYC) – 1992

• Entity: Trump Plaza Associates

• Bankruptcy Type: Chapter 11

• Cause: Real estate crash + high leverage

• Outcome:

  • Reorganized

  • Sold in 1995

• Final Status: Still operates — under different ownership

3) Trump Castle Hotel & Casino (Atlantic City) – 1992

• Entity: Trump Castle Associates

• Bankruptcy Type: Chapter 11

• Outcome:

  • Renamed Trump Marina

  • Sold in 2011

• Final Status: Now Golden Nugget Atlantic City

4) Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino (Atlantic City) – 1992

(different from NYC Plaza)

• Entity: Trump Plaza Associates

• Bankruptcy Type: Chapter 11

• Outcome:

  • Continued operating

  • Closed permanently in 2014

  • Demolished in 2021

• Final Status: Defunct

5) Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts – 2004

• Entity: Holding company for casino empire

• Bankruptcy Type: Chapter 11

• Outcome:

  • Restructured

  • Emerged as Trump Entertainment Resorts

• Final Status: Eventually defunct (see #6)

6) Trump Entertainment Resorts – 2009

• Entity: Successor holding company

• Bankruptcy Type: Chapter 11

• Outcome:

  • Trump lost controlling interest

  • Company later collapsed

• Final Status: Defunct by 2016

B. Summary Table

👉 Three permanently closed.
👉 Three survived only after sale or rebranding.
👉 Trump lost majority control in several.

C. Important Legal Distinction:

Why Trump Personally Never Filed Bankruptcy

Trump consistently structured his business empire using:

• Special Purpose Entities (SPEs)

• Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)

• Partnerships

This:

• Shielded his personal assets

• Allowed debt discharge at the corporate level

• Let him retain brand value & licensing income

Legal reality:

Corporate bankruptcy ≠ personal bankruptcy.

But economically:

Repeated corporate bankruptcies = repeated business failure at the operating level.

D. Pattern Analysis (Why this matters)

Trump’s business model during the 1980s–2000s often involved:

1. Extreme leverage

2. Aggressive debt financing

3. Overvaluation of projected revenue

4. Risk transfer to lenders and bondholders

In plain English:

Trump often risked other people’s money, not his own.

Which explains:

• Why lenders lost billions

• Why Trump walked away financially intact

• Why bondholders got crushed

E. Political Talking Point (Legally Accurate)

Accurate phrasing:

Donald Trump personally never filed bankruptcy — but six of his major business entities did.

Also accurate:

His casino empire collapsed twice.

Also accurate:

Bondholders and lenders absorbed massive losses while Trump retained brand control.

F. No New Trump Bankruptcies Since 2009

As of January 26, 2026:

• No additional Trump or Trump Organization bankruptcies have occurred since 2009.

• Trump pivoted more toward:

  • Branding deals

  • Licensing

  • Real estate management contracts

  • Political monetization

Lower capital risk → fewer bankruptcy filings.

G. One-Sentence Summary (For Video or Blog Use)

Donald Trump never personally declared bankruptcy, but six major Trump-owned business entities filed Chapter 11 between 1991 and 2009 — three of which ultimately collapsed and shut down permanently.

If you’d like, David, I can also put together a single comprehensive chart showing:

Criminal convictions + Civil judgments + Bankruptcies + Disbarments + Prison sentences

→ essentially a one-page Trump legal & financial history dashboard.

And no — it won’t be boring. 😄

Yes, David — Colorado courts did formally hold that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection in connection with January 6 and the 2020 certification process. That finding was explicitly made at two judicial levels in Colorado, even though the U.S. Supreme Court later reversed the legal consequence of those findings.

Here is the precise legal history, carefully stated.

SHORT ANSWER

👉 Yes. Colorado courts held — as a matter of judicial fact-finding — that Trump engaged in insurrection.

👉 That finding was not reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

👉 What the Supreme Court reversed was Colorado’s authority to enforce Section 3 against federal candidates — not the factual determination that Trump engaged in insurrection.

THE COLORADO DISTRICT COURT RULING (Trial Court)

Case: Anderson v. Griswold

Court: Colorado District Court
Judge: Sarah Wallace
Date: November 17, 2023

Key Holding:

Judge Wallace explicitly found that Donald Trump “engaged in insurrection” under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

She wrote that:

Trump incited and supported the January 6 attack and therefore engaged in insurrection by a preponderance of the evidence.

However, she ruled that Section 3 did not apply to presidents, so she declined to remove him from the ballot, despite finding that he engaged in insurrection.

THE COLORADO SUPREME COURT RULING

Court: Colorado Supreme Court

Date: December 19, 2023
Vote: 4–3

Key Holdings:

The Colorado Supreme Court:

1. Affirmed the trial court’s finding that Trump engaged in insurrection, and

2. Held that Section 3 does apply to presidents, and

3. Ordered Trump removed from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot.

The Court stated:

“A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

This is the strongest possible judicial ruling short of a criminal conviction for insurrection.

It means:

👉 Colorado’s highest court formally declared Trump to be constitutionally disqualified as an insurrectionist.

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT REVERSAL — WHAT IT DID NOT DO

Case: Trump v. Anderson

Date: March 4, 2024
Holding: States cannot enforce Section 3 against federal candidates; only Congress may do so.

Critically:

The Supreme Court:

• Did NOT reverse the factual finding that Trump engaged in insurrection

• Did NOT hold Trump innocent of insurrection

• Did NOT dispute the Colorado courts’ evidence or conclusions

Instead, SCOTUS ruled:

States lack constitutional authority to enforce Section 3 against candidates for federal office.

Reuters explicitly noted:

“The Supreme Court did not refute the Colorado court’s finding that Trump engaged in insurrection.”

LEGALLY ACCURATE BOTTOM LINE

It is 100% accurate to say:

Colorado courts held that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection relating to January 6 and the certification of the 2020 election.

It is also accurate to say:

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s ability to enforce that finding, but not the finding itself.

LEGAL PRECISION (For Writing, Speaking, or Video Use)

Fully precise formulation:

In 2023, a Colorado district court and the Colorado Supreme Court both held, after evidentiary proceedings, that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment for his role in January 6 and the effort to block certification of the 2020 election. The U.S. Supreme Court later reversed only on federalism grounds, holding that states lack authority to enforce Section 3 against federal candidates, without disturbing the underlying factual finding.

WHY THIS MATTERS LEGALLY

This creates a very unusual constitutional posture:

• No criminal conviction

• But a formal judicial finding of insurrection

• Which remains unreversed on the merits

Meaning:

👉 Trump stands as the only presidential candidate in U.S. history to be judicially found to have engaged in insurrection.

ONE-LINE VERSION (POLITICALLY & LEGALLY BULLETPROOF)

Colorado trial and supreme courts both formally ruled that Trump engaged in insurrection, and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned only the enforcement mechanism — not the finding itself.

If you want, David, I can also give you the exact quoted language from the Colorado opinions, which is extremely powerful and very precise — perfect for blog or video use.