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☆ Judge lifts Trump gag order in $250 million New York business fraud case
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A New York judge on Thursday temporarily suspended a gag order barring former President Donald Trump from commenting on court staff in his $250 million civil business fraud trial. She seeks $250 million in damages and wants to permanently bar Trump Sr., Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump from running a New York business. Trump has already violated the narrow gag order twice, catching a total of $15,000 in fines. That gag order barred Trump from making statements targeting the prosecutors, likely witnesses and court staff in the case. A federal appeals court temporarily paused the D.C. gag order earlier this month.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked for a mistrial Wednesday in the New York civil fraud case that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. Testifying last week, Trump assailed Engoron as an “extremely hostile” judge and the trial as “very unfair." Political Cartoons View All 1250 ImagesTrump’s lawyers compiled weeks of complaints into their 30-page court filing seeking a mistrial. Engoron mentioned the mistrial request only briefly in court Wednesday as defense lawyers continued calling witnesses. Before the trial, Engoron ruled that Trump and other defendants committed fraud by exaggerating his net worth and the value of assets on his financial statements.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., October 25, 2023. In a statement responding to the motion, a spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James said Trump was trying to distract from his "fraud." It is highly unlikely that Engoron will declare a mistrial, given his earlier fraud findings and defense of his law clerk's conduct. Trump took the stand in the case last week, defending his business practices and calling the case "election interference." The case is among the many legal woes facing Trump as he campaigns for the presidency.

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☆ Trump lawyers ask for a mistrial in $250 million fraud case, accuses law clerk of 'co-judging'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's lawyers asked for a mistrial in their civil fraud trial in New York. AdvertisementThe mistrial filings — from Trump's lawyers Alina Habba, Christopher Kise, and Clifford Roberts — included quotes from the court transcript in which the lawyers first complained about Greenfield. Judge Arthur Engoron talks with his principal law clerk Allison Greenfield during the fraud trial for former President Donald Trump at New York Supreme Court. A summary judgement decision from Engoron — which Trump lawyers complain came less than a week before the trial — has already largely ruled in the attorney general's favor. After the ruling, Trump's lawyers can take it up with an appeals court, which will decide whether to let the trial stand.

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He said he never worked on the annual financial statements at the heart of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit. James alleges Donald Trump, his company and executives including Eric and Donald Jr. exaggerated his wealth by billions of dollars on financial statements given to banks, insurers and others. On Monday, Trump Jr. will be questioned first by the defense lawyers representing him, his father and other defendants. When he became president in 2017, Donald Trump handed day-to-day management of his company to Eric and Donald Trump Jr. and named Trump Jr. as a trustee of a trust he established to hold his assets while in office. “I had an obligation to listen to the people with intimate knowledge of those things,” Trump Jr. testified.

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☆ Trump loses early-win bid at NY fraud trial after wild arguments invoking spaghetti, Vladimir Putin, and geese
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A judge on Thursday rejected Trump's bid for an early win in his civil fraud trial in New York. The decision was preceded by often colorful arguments invoking Putin, geese, and "spaghetti night." Those documents are Trump's annual, 30-page assertions of net worth, the so-called "statements of financial condition" that are central to the trial. Former president Donald Trump displays a media article outside the courtroom at the New York State Supreme Court on the first day of his civil fraud trial. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter lunch, the judge ruled in the Trump team's favor, saying he would allow their experts to testify, but with a caveat.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the day he attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023. Engoron is unlikely to grant the request as he has already found that Trump and 10 of his businesses committed persistent fraud. However, Engoron's ruling covered only one of the seven fraud counts Trump faces. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has testified along with his sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump. The fraud trial is one of several legal battles Trump faces as he mounts a comeback bid for the White House.

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☆ At Trump's New York fraud trial, judge makes clear who's in charge
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Judge Arthur F. Engoron attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023. Engoron asked Trump's lawyer, Christopher Kise. That left for trial whether Trump and the other defendants should pay the $250 million in penalties that James wants, and whether to ban Trump from New York state real estate business. He spent more than a decade in private practice and 12 years clerking for a state judge before becoming a civil court judge in 2003. Voters elected him to the state Supreme Court, a trial court, in 2015.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023. Trump's testimony wrapped up in midafternoon. Over roughly four hours on the witness stand, Trump often avoided direct answers, instead bragging about his properties and his wealth. New York state lawyers said in their lawsuit that the estimates misled lenders and insurers, earning him more than $100 million and exaggerating his wealth by $2 billion. At one point when Trump was on the stand, Engoron asked Kise to take Trump to the back of the courtroom and "explain the rules."

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☆ Trump's free speech defense may fall short in election subversion trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Trump’s defense lawyers, in a flurry of legal motions, have argued that the case by Special Counsel Jack Smith "attempts to criminalize core political speech and political advocacy." At trial, legal experts say Trump will likely not be allowed to argue to a jury that his conduct was protected by his First Amendment right to free speech because such legal questions are resolved by the judge. Those claims complement his political case as an anti-establishment crusader whose movement is opposed by powerful foes seeking to silence him. Criminal defendants can use the defense to argue they sought legal opinions and did not intend to break the law. Three former Trump lawyers have already pleaded guilty in Georgia, including Kenneth Chesebro, who drafted memos crafting the fake elector scheme.

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[1/10] Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023. You’ve made it important, but it wasn’t," Trump said of the estimates. New York state lawyers argued in their lawsuit that the estimates misled lenders and insurers, earning him $100 million and exaggerating his wealth by $2 billion. Trump's crowded legal calendar threatens to take him off the campaign trail for much of next year. The trial was originally scheduled to run through early December but could wrap up sooner as the state calls its final witnesses this week.

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☆ Chatty Trump, on the witness stand, is a tangent machine: 'Control him,' judge begs his lawyers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"Control your client," the judge told Trump's lawyer just a half-hour in. During heated exchanges that included the former president railing about the Democratic plot against him, the judge begged Trump's lawyers to control him. Within a half hour, the judge asked Trump's lead lawyer, Christopher Kise, for the first of three times to control him. Engoron asked. Engoron asked Trump's lawyer.

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☆ New York judge widens Trump case gag order; limits in criminal case lifted
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Companies Need To Integrate Climate Reporting Across Functions To Comply With California S New Law | Henry Engler | October | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The judge has fined Trump $15,000 for twice violating that gag order. A three-judge panel, all appointed by Democratic presidents, scheduled oral arguments on Trump's appeal of the gag order for Nov. 20. Trump's lawyers have argued the order violates his free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. In the New York case, Engoron said on Friday he has an "unfettered right" to consult with his staff members throughout the trial, and that the gag order was intended to protect their safety. Failure to honor the gag order, the judge said, "shall result in serious sanctions."

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The judge overseeing Trump's fraud trial imposed a partial gag order on Trump's lawyers. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's fraud trial in New York expanded an existing gag order to bar Trump's lawyers from commenting on confidential communications between the judge and his staff. Judge Arthur Engoron's wider gag order came after Trump's lawyers made what the judge characterized as "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about his law clerk. They "falsely [accused] her of bias against them and of improperly influencing the ongoing bench trial," Engoron wrote. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe previous gag order already barred Trump and his co-defendants from spoken or online statements attacking Engoron's law staff.

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☆ Irked Trump trial judge blasts ex-president's lawyer for asking to criticize clerk again: 'It's a shame you've descended to this level'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The judge in Trump's fraud trial lashed out, again, at his lawyer. Trump's lawyer, on Friday, asked permission to criticize her. AdvertisementAdvertisementA baffled, irked judge overseeing Donald Trump's family company's fraud trial in Manhattan criticized one of his lawyers again for his repeated attacks on his law clerk. "It's a shame you've descended to this level," New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron told Trump's lawyer Christopher Kise. Asked by a lawyer from the New York Attorney General's office what reporting Kise was talking about, the Trump lawyer was unsure.

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☆ Judge in Trump NY fraud trial extends gag order to lawyers, says office has received 'hundreds' of threats since trial started
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"The threat of, and actual, violence resulting from heated political rhetoric is well-documented," Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in a fiery court order Friday afternoon. Trump has violated that gag order twice since the trial began last month. They have been "falsely accusing her of bias against them and of improperly influencing the ongoing bench trial," Engoron wrote. Violating the gag order "shall result in serious sanctions," he added. He has fined Trump a total of $15,000 for twice violating the gag order that was imposed early in the case.

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☆ Son burn: Donald Trump Jr. learns on the stand that AG wants even more fraud penalties thanks to his $60M golf-course sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Donald Trump, Jr., completed two days of testimony in the Trump civil fraud trial in New York. AdvertisementAdvertisementNew York officials want even higher penalties from Donald Trump than the $250 million they've already said they're seeking, it was revealed during testimony Thursday by Donald Trump, Jr. It was signed by Donald Trump Jr., president of Trump Ferry Point LLC, which held the lease. There was another flurry of objections, cut short when Donald Trump, Jr. cheerfully mooted the dispute by cracking, "I didn't make any." AdvertisementAdvertisementThe AG's office has said it will ask for a total of at least $250 million in total "disgorgement" from her lawsuit's defendants: Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and longtime Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney.

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☆ Furious fraud trial judge accuses Trump lawyer of misogyny, threatens wider gag order, after law-clerk snipe
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A defense lawyer's late afternoon snipe about a law clerk sparked drama at the Trump fraud trial. The blowup came when Trump lawyer Christopher Kise snarked "ask your law clerk first," to the judge. The temper-flaring, accusations, and judicial threats were sparked in the Manhattan courtroom by a wise-crack comment from Trump lawyer Christopher Kise, who was raising a routine objection during late-afternoon testimony by Eric Trump. AdvertisementAdvertisementHearing her referenced with derision yet again, the typically affable judge hit the figurative roof, as Eric Trump watched, blank-faced, from the witness stand. "If you keep referring to my principal law clerk, I will consider expanding the gag order to include you and your attorneys."

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☆ Furious fraud trial judge accuses T lawyer of misogyny, threatens wider gag order, after law-clerk snipe
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A defense lawyer's late afternoon snipe about a law clerk sparked drama at the Trump fraud trial. The blowup came when Trump lawyer Christopher Kise snarked "ask your law clerk first," to the judge. AdvertisementAdvertisementHearing her referenced with derision yet again, the typically affable judge hit the figurative roof, as Eric Trump watched, blank-faced, from the witness stand. "If you keep referring to my principal law clerk, I will consider expanding the gag order to include you and your attorneys." "I have an absolute right, an absolute unfettered right, to get advice from my principal law clerk," as with anyone on his three-member staff, he said.

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A decade later, Trump's failed Bills bid is one of the business moves under scrutiny in the trial of a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. In offering to buy the Bills, Trump cited his net worth as $8 billion in an initial offer letter but never provided his financial statements. Throughout the sale process, Cohen insisted Trump was serious about his bid and his commitment to keeping the Bills in Buffalo. “There’s nobody more serious than Donald Trump,” Cohen said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2014. Trump told the AP in 2016 that had he been able to buy the Bills, it’s unlikely that he would've run for president.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge said Thursday he would take a fuller look at Donald Trump’s out-of-court comments and reconsider a $10,000 fine he imposed on the former president a day earlier at his civil fraud trial. The development came after Trump’s lawyers urged Judge Arthur Engoron to rethink the penalty. She sits next to Engoron, and Trump’s lawyers had groused a bit earlier about the clerk’s facial expressions and role in the case. Trump’s lawyers insisted anew Thursday that Trump was talking about Cohen. They pointed out that right after his reference to the person “sitting alongside” the judge, Trump said: “We are doing very well, the facts are speaking very loud.

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☆ Judge in NY fraud trial threatens Trump with sanctions again, saying the ex-president's latest comments were a 'blatant' violation of the gag order
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The judge in Donald Trump's New York fraud trial has threatened the former president with sanctions again. He verbally attacked a law clerk in what the judge called a "blatant" violation of his gag order. "This judge is a very partisan judge," Trump was quoted by the AP as saying, "with a person who is very partisan sitting right beside him, perhaps even more partisan than he is." Engoron's principle law clerk, Allison Greenfield, sits some three feet to the judge's right. The gag was necessary, the judge explained at the time, because Trump had repeatedly "disparaged" the law clerk on social media, falsely calling her "Schumer's girlfriend."

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☆ Trump's lawyers demand fraud trial stopped because of a COVID-19 risk — but none are wearing masks in court
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's fraud trial began week 4 on Tuesday after skipping Monday due to a courtroom COVID outbreak. An unmasked Trump watched as his lawyers asked the trial be halted due to the risk of infection. The AG's office is, meanwhile, insisting that all notification and quarantine rules have been followed. A spokesperson for the AG's office told reporters in a statement, "As always, the Attorney General's Office has followed and complied with CDC guidelines. Our office properly notified the court and defendants' counsel, and the court decided to proceed with trial today.

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☆ Trump's lawyers demand fraud trial be stopped because of a COVID-19 risk — but none are wearing masks in court
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's fraud trial began week four on Tuesday after skipping Monday due to a COVID-19 outbreak. An unmasked Trump watched as his unmasked lawyers asked the trial be halted due to the risk of infection. The AG's office is, meanwhile, insisting that all notification and quarantine rules have been followed. AdvertisementAdvertisementA spokesperson for the AG's office told reporters in a statement, "As always, the Attorney General's Office has followed and complied with CDC guidelines. Our office properly notified the court and defendants' counsel, and the court decided to proceed with trial today.

☆ Trump attorney calls Micheal Cohen a liar in bizarre 'cross' fire: 'You're not on your podcast'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"You're not on your podcast," the lawyer, Alina Habba, snapped at Cohen at one point. "You're not on 'Mea Culpa,'" Habba continued, naming Cohen's podcast, which routinely targets Trump with vitriol. AdvertisementAdvertisement"No speeches," Engoron warned, noting that as a lawyer, Habba must ask questions, not make statements. But in that half hour, she called Cohen a liar and perjuror in multiple questions – "so you have lied under oath numerous times, Mr. On his way out of court for the day, Trump paused before the hallway news cameras and called Cohen a "disgraced felon."

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