New York Attorney General Letitia James is not content to rest on her $454 million civil fraud trial victory, even as Trump's debt to the state keeps snowballing, growing by a punishing $5 million in interest since February.No, James still has some unfinished Trump business on her calendar.She is asking hard questions about the $175 million bond that would safeguard at least some of what Trump owes New York while he appeals losing the trial. A hearing on the bond's financial soundness is set for...
Former President Donald Trump's trial antics are already starting to hurt him, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman explained to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday — and make life hell for his attorneys.The problem is, he explained, Trump's repeated penchant for attacking witnesses and violating gag orders has led to prosecutors keeping a witness who will testify at trial secret, and the judge allowing that would effectively be a "serious sanction" against Trump's behavior that will make preparing his...
Attorney and legal analyst Andrew Weissmann highlighted on Friday what he called a "tell" in Donald Trump's motion to recuse Judge Juan Merchan from his Manhattan hush money case—one that might suggest it's not a sturdy ground.Trump is facing criminal charges in New York City from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg surrounding allegations that he illegally falsified business records in order to conceal "hush money" payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The payments were made to...
The New York attorney general’s office has asked a judge to void the $175 million bond former President Trump secured to put off paying the larger monetary damage award in his civil fraud cas
ABC News reports that a judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s last-minute attempt Monday to delay his criminal trial in New York and move the case out of Manhattan. The decision comes just one week before
Just days before his hush-money criminal trial commences, former President Donald Trump is insisting on a new judge, revisiting his past grievances with the current judge. read more
New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing the judge in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud case to void the $175 million bond that Trump previously posted to appeal his New York civil lawsuit. In her 26-page filing obtained by Fox News Digital, James questions whether the insurance company has sufficient funds to back it up. Trump’s bond was posted by California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), but James argued that the insurer was "not authorized" to write...
It appeared in late March that the wrangling over former President Donald Trump's ability to pay the $454 million in damages ordered in the civil fraud case brought against him by New York state Attorney General Letitia James' office was sorted out. Sure, James also started to make noises that she would try to seize Trump's property--and Judge Arthur Engoron slapped on court supervision of the Trump Organization's finances for the next three years.But remember that in lieu of having to...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's New York criminal case, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, is a Biden donor, Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case