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☆ Trump’s lawyers ask NY judge who oversaw civil fraud case to recuse himself
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Lawyers for Donald Trump asked the New York judge who ordered the former president to pay nearly half a billion dollars to recuse himself from the case alleging the judge engaged in “prohibited communications” with a real estate lawyer about the case before issuing his decision. Trump’s attorneys said if Judge Arthur Engoron would not recuse from the case they are seeking an evidentiary hearing to delve into the judge’s reported conversation with New York real estate lawyer Adam Bailey. The judge is still overseeing a monitor who he put in place to oversee the Trump Organization’s finances. The NBC article was published in May, months after Engoron issued his $454 million judgement against Trump in February. Bailey told NBC he spoke with Engoron before the judge issued his decision in the case.

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☆ Live Updates: Closing Arguments to Begin in Trump Criminal Trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | Ben Protess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

The defense did not call Mr. Weisselberg either, nor did Mr. Trump take the stand in his own defense. And for weeks, Mr. Weisselberg’s absence has loomed large over Mr. Trump’s case, the first criminal trial of an American president. And when Mr. Trump was sworn in as president in 2017, he entrusted Mr. Weisselberg, along with Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, with running his company. Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen told the jury, “approved” of the arrangement and knew that they would falsify records to cover it up. Over the course of their decades together, Mr. Cohen knew, Mr. Trump and Mr. Weisselberg had become more or less symbiotic.

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Asked for proof of his claim that Mr. Biden was personally directing the local cases against him, Mr. Trump pointed to purported ties between prosecutors and “Washington,” but provided no evidence that Mr. Biden had been involved in any of the hiring decisions, conversations or meetings that Mr. Trump cited. The writer E. Jean Carroll filed her first lawsuit against Mr. Trump in November 2019, accusing him of defamation. Faulty and irrelevant comparisonsWhat Mr. Trump Said“I got indicted more than Al Capone.”— in a rally in Ohio in MarchFalse. Mr. Hur described Mr. Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who had “diminished faculties and faulty memory.” He did not declare Mr. Biden mentally incompetent to stand trial. Inaccurate attacks on judgesWhat Mr. Trump Said“Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately.

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Staff members who came into contact with the substance were isolated while emergency services tested the powder, spokesperson Al Baker said. That amount includes the $354 million penalty against Trump and his company, as well as nearly $100 million in pre-judgment interest. Engoran's verdict also bans Trump from operating a New York business for three years, jeopardizing Trump's role in his own business empire. AdvertisementA spokesperson for Trump Jr. told the outlet that the test results came back inconclusive, but officials did not believe the substance was deadly. His top law clerk, Allison Greenfield, had also been the subject of numerous antisemitic and sexist threats from Trump supporters during the trial.

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A New York judge on Friday handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of more than $350 million that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash. The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron caps a chaotic, yearslong case in which New York’s attorney general put Mr. Trump’s fantastical claims of wealth on trial. One of the sons, Eric Trump, is the Trump Organization’s de facto chief executive, and the ruling throws into doubt whether any member of the family can run the business in the near term. Mr. Trump will appeal the financial penalty — which could climb to $400 million or more once interest is added — but will have to either come up with the money or secure a bond within 30 days. The ruling will not render him bankrupt, because most of his wealth is tied up in real estate.

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☆ What the Civil Fraud Ruling Means for Trump’s Finances and His Empire
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | Ben Protess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump lost his civil fraud trial on Friday, as a judge found him liable for violating state laws and penalized him nearly $355 million plus interest. In total, Mr. Trump is expected to have to pay more than $450 million. Along with other punishments, he also barred the former president from leading any company in the state, including portions of Mr. Trump’s family business, for three years. Mr. Trump will appeal, and the case could take months if not years to resolve. But Justice Engoron’s decision could inflict immediate pain, threatening the former president’s finances and his influence over the Trump family business, known as the Trump Organization.

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☆ The Judge Who Dealt a Huge Financial Blow to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Kate Christobek | Jonah E. Bromwich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He had allowed repetitive objections from Mr. Trump’s lawyers, despite protests by the New York attorney general’s office, which brought the case. He had often ignored Mr. Trump’s violations of courtroom decorum. At one point, the judge recalled, he had even let a witness answer his mobile phone while on the stand. Despite all that, he warned the lawyers, “I don’t want you to think I’m a pushover.”No one is likely to think so now. Despite his absurdist humor and good cheer, the judge showed himself in the end to be a very serious man.

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☆ The Civil Fraud Ruling on Donald Trump, Annotated
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Kate Christobek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Civil Fraud Ruling on Donald Trump, AnnotatedFormer President Donald J. Trump was penalized $355 million and banned for three years from serving in any top roles at a New York company, including his own, in a ruling on Friday by Justice Arthur F. Engoron. The decision comes after the state Attorney General Letitia James sued Mr. Trump, members of his family and his company in 2022. The ruling expands on Justice Engoron’s decision last fall, which found that Mr. Trump’s financial statements were filled with fraudulent claims. Mr. Trump will appeal the financial penalty and is likely to appeal other restrictions; he has already appealed last fall’s ruling. The New York Times is annotating the document.

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☆ Trump attacked her as a 'co-judge;' now NY law clerk Allison Greenfield is on her way to becoming an actual judge
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Allison Greenfield, principal law clerk in Trump's NY fraud case, is hoping to be elected judge. AdvertisementDonald Trump has attacked her as a biased "co-judge—" claiming she secretly runs the show at his New York civil fraud trial — but now principal law clerk Allison Greenfield is well on her way to becoming a judge in her own right. Last week, Greenfield cleared the biggest hurdle to the Manhattan civil judgeship she seeks, when local Democratic party leaders rated her "most highly qualified." "The trial clerk in Trump's civil fraud trial, Allison Greenfield, has been viciously targeted by the MAGA crowd with vile rhetoric and death threats," Levine wrote. Advertisement"When the judge speaks, you have to stop speaking," Greenfield told Trump attorney Alina Habba early on, during a 2022 pretrial hearing.

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☆ As Trump Awaits Fraud Penalty, a Monitor’s Report Could Raise His Risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | Ben Protess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a monthslong trial, the attorney general, Letitia James, asked for a penalty of roughly $370 million, which would come on the heels of a separate jury verdict in a defamation case requiring Mr. Trump to pay $83.3 million. The new accusations against Mr. Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, came late last week in a report from an outside monitor whom Justice Engoron assigned in late 2022 to keep an eye on the company. The monitor, Barbara Jones, a former federal judge, has overseen how the company represents its finances to lenders. Her report highlighted several paperwork issues at a family company trying to shake a legacy of sloppiness: missing disclosures, typos, math errors and questions about a $48 million loan between Mr. Trump and one of his companies. Ms. Jones, now a law firm partner, told the judge that collectively, the issues “may reflect a lack of adequate internal controls.”

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“The thing you’ve got to do primarily is set rules and enforce them,” said John S. Martin Jr., a former U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan. In Ms. Carroll’s defamation trial, Mr. Trump seemed almost to be goading Judge Kaplan into throwing him out of the courtroom. After his two recent confrontations with the judges, Mr. Trump held news conferences before cheering supporters in the lobby of his building at 40 Wall Street. Ms. Carroll’s defamation trial is being heard by a nine-person jury in Federal District Court, with Judge Kaplan overseeing the proceedings. During his diatribe, Mr. Trump refrained from attacking any staff members.

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☆ Trump really, really hates his NY gag order, which he's now trying to appeal again
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's first-ever gag order was issued two months ago at his NY fraud trial. Trump now hopes to ask NY's highest court to lift the 'unconstitutional' gag once more. AdvertisementThe lawyers filed Monday's do-over appeal request with a Manhattan appellate court in the morning. — asks the lower appellate court to make its decision by Wednesday. "Petitioners respectfully request that this Court grant immediate leave to appeal," Trump lawyer Clifford Robert wrote.

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☆ Meet Allison Greenfield, the law clerk driving Trump bonkers at his fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

In Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, however, his attorneys have spent a disproportionate amount of time — and ire — on Allison Greenfield, the judge's principal law clerk. Notes and whispersDuring the trial, Greenfield is quiet. AP Photo/Seth WenigBecause of the enormous public interest in the Trump trial, it's held in the New York civil court's large ceremonial courtroom. AdvertisementEarly in the trial, Engoron issued a gag order forbidding Trump — and later his attorneys — from disparaging his staff, including Greenfield, citing numerous threats. A New York Law Department representative said a list of her cases was "not readily available."

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An appeals court on Thursday reinstated a narrow gag order on Donald J. Trump that bars him from attacking court staff in his civil fraud trial in New York. The order was first put in place by the trial judge, Arthur F. Engoron, in early October, after Mr. Trump attacked the judge’s law clerk on social media. Mr. Trump referred to the clerk, Allison Greenfield, as “Schumer’s girlfriend” alongside a photo of her and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, and said that she was running the case against Mr. Trump. With their client barred from attacking Ms. Greenfield, Mr. Trump’s lawyers continued to take issue with her prominence. Eventually, Justice Engoron placed a gag order on the lawyers as well, prohibiting them from commenting on his conferences and written exchanges with Ms. Greenfield.

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The decision left Mr. Trump free, for the moment, of all of the gag orders placed on him. The New York gag orders will be evaluated by a full appellate panel, which may reimpose them. But in the meantime, Mr. Trump and his lawyers are again free to attack court staff, most prominently the law clerk, Allison Greenfield, who since Mr. Trump’s original post has become a magnet for right-wing attacks on the case. Justice Engoron, who is a Democrat, had justified his own gag order against Mr. Trump by citing threats against his staff. He repeatedly asked whether Mr. Trump had used specifically threatening language against Ms. Greenfield, who is also a Democrat, and seemed satisfied that the answer was no.

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Representative Elise Stefanik, a member of the House Republican leadership and an ally of former President Donald J. Trump, filed an ethics complaint Friday attacking the judge presiding over Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial, the latest salvo in a right-wing war against the case. The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has accused Mr. Trump of fraudulent business practices, and in a pretrial ruling Justice Engoron agreed, validating the heart of her case. The letter, to a judicial conduct commission, is unlikely to have any immediate repercussions in the trial, which will determine the consequences Mr. Trump and his company will face as a result of the fraud. The judge has placed narrow gag orders on both the former president and his lawyers, but nothing bars Mr. Trump’s allies from their criticism. “I filed an official judicial complaint against Judge Arthur Engoron for his inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance in New York’s disgraceful lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization,” Ms. Stefanik said in a statement Friday.

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Ms. James has asked that Mr. Trump pay $250 million and that he and his sons be permanently barred from running a business in New York. Mr. Trump has denied all wrongdoing. Mr. Trump minimized the importance of the statements and said the banks paid little attention to them. During the first week of the trial, Justice Engoron ordered Mr. Trump not to comment on members of his staff, and put similar restrictions on his lawyers. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka will be the fourth and final Trump family member to testify.

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☆ Opinion | The One Audience Trump Can’t Hoodwink
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jesse Wegman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The witness stand in Justice Arthur Engoron’s courtroom at 60 Centre St., in Lower Manhattan, is an ordinary wood-paneled box off to the side of the bench. But for Donald Trump, who is on trial for fraudulently overvaluing his New York real estate assets, it might as well be a cage of kryptonite. That signature rambling filibuster has propelled Mr. Trump through every venture of his life, from real estate to reality television to the American presidency. He relies on it to control the room, to manipulate the crowd, and to avoid addressing any topic he doesn’t want to. That doesn’t work in court, where the judge is in charge, the rules of evidence are in effect and the witness has sworn to tell the whole truth.

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☆ A Judge Tries to Do What Few Have Accomplished: Rein in Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | More About Jonah E. Bromwich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Mr. Kise said that the judge should want to hear from the former president, Justice Engoron disagreed, saying that many of Mr. Trump’s comments were irrelevant. Mr. Trump sat silent for a moment before resuming his testimony. For Democrats and others who have long fantasized about Mr. Trump getting what they saw as a comeuppance, that possibility was tantalizing. But after the midmorning break, the judge appeared less interested in cutting off Mr. Trump’s off-topic soliloquies. The judge explained why he was giving Mr. Trump more latitude: Mr. Wallace, he said, seemed to be happy with what he was getting from his combative witness.

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Mr. Trump posted a picture of her with Senator Chuck Schumer, accusing her of partisanship and saying she was “running this case against me.”Though the order is limited, Mr. Trump violated it twice in less than a week. Mr. Cohen spent two days on the stand testifying that Mr. Trump had lied about the value of his properties. Mr. Cohen spoke calmly and confidently as he recounted Mr. Trump’s obsession with his net worth. Mr. Cohen said he had not, prompting Mr. Trump and one of his lawyers, Alina Habba, to throw their hands up in victory. Outside the courtroom, Mr. Trump declared that Mr. Cohen had been “proven to be a liar.”Trump took the stand unexpectedly.

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Mr. Trump’s lawyers have long highlighted for him the perils of speaking under oath to those seeking to hold him to account. Mr. Trump, eschewing his instinct to talk and bully his way out of a problem, has chosen silence when the legal stakes are highest. He eventually had a change of heart in the attorney general’s case, answering questions under oath in a deposition this spring. Mr. Trump got off on the wrong foot with the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, who will decide the outcome of the trial. At one point, Justice Engoron summoned Mr. Trump to the witness stand to determine whether he had broken the rule.

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Donald J. Trump’s legal team on Friday repeatedly attacked a law clerk during the former president’s civil fraud trial, overshadowing Eric Trump’s second day on the witness stand and prompting the judge to bar the lawyers from making public statements about his private communications with his staff. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, works closely with the clerk, Allison Greenfield, and the two often speak and pass notes on the bench. Ms. Greenfield previously worked as a trial attorney in New York City’s law department, and the judge appears to rely on her expertise when considering rules of evidence and other matters. But the former president has taken issue with her involvement in the monthlong trial — Ms. Greenfield is a Democrat and Mr. Trump believes she is biased against him — and his lawyers have complained about her regularly. He said that the lawyers’ arguments had no basis, that their accusations of bias were false and that failure to heed the order would result in “serious sanctions.”

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Donald J. Trump has twice run afoul of a narrow gag order placed on him by the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial in New York, and has been fined a total of $15,000. It’s a rounding error for a former president who measures his net worth in the billions. But if Mr. Trump continues to violate the order, which bars him from attacking the judge’s staff, the punishments could intensify. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, has warned of harsher fines, contempt of court and possible imprisonment. Mr. Trump denied that his veiled remarks had referred to the clerk, but in an order on Thursday, Justice Engoron fined Mr. Trump $10,000, and declared that his testimony “rings hollow and untrue.”

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The judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump on Wednesday signaled that he might again punish the former president for violating a gag order that bars Mr. Trump from attacking court staff. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, has already fined Mr. Trump for comments he made about his law clerk, Allison Greenfield, whom the former president was barred from discussing after he attacked her on social media in the opening days of the trial. During a break in the trial on Wednesday, Mr. Trump called Justice Engoron partisan — which is allowable under the order — but then continued by saying “with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him. Perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”After the break, the judge said he was concerned that the overheated environment in the courtroom could result in real danger.

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The judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump fined the former president $5,000 on Friday for violating the terms of a gag order imposed this month. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, had barred Mr. Trump from attacking his court staff after the former president posted a picture on social media of Justice Engoron’s law clerk, Allison Greenfield, with Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader. Mr. Trump labeled Ms. Greenfield “Schumer’s girlfriend” and said she was “running this case against me.”A spokeswoman for Mr. Schumer this month called the social media post “ridiculous, absurd, and false,” adding that the senator did not know Ms. Greenfield. Mr. Trump’s post was removed from his social media platform, Truth Social, on Oct. 3, the day Justice Engoron imposed the gag order. But a copy of the post remained visible on his campaign website — though it appears to have escaped the attention of Justice Engoron until this week.

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