Trump attacks judge overseeing Letitia James’ $250m lawsuit against him
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‘Cruel, biased and vicious’: Trump attacks New York judge overseeing Letitia James’ $250 million lawsuit against him after his lawyers try to ignore judge who scorned him for not attending for statement
- Trump attacked Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversees fraud case
- Engoron fines Trump $10,000 a day for not sitting for impeachment
- Trump finally sat for it and repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment
- Trump called Engoron ‘cruel’ and said it was a partisan case
- Administrative judge ruled last week that case remains with Engoron
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday ripped into the judge overseeing the $250 million lawsuit New York prosecutors filed against him and his company seeking damages.
Trump attacked New York state judge, Arthur Engoron, in an angry post on his Truth Social website, berated the judge who despised him in court and fined him $110,000 for failing to give a statement.
That ruling came in the long-running investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump’s attack comes a week after a state administrative judge denied Trump’s insistence on moving the case to another courtroom.
“The only person who is perhaps worse than weak on violent crime AG Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, is the judge we have in her ridiculous and highly partisan case against me and my family,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social report. platform.
Trump tore in Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversees $250 million lawsuit against him in New York, where state AG Letitia James accuses him of committing fraud
“His name is Arthur Engoron, and he is a vile, biased and vile ‘stamp’ for the communist takeover of the great and prosperous American company I have built over a long period of years,” Trump wrote. “He was appointed by my worst enemies. The case would go to a new judge, but he demands to keep it. I have no jury or civil rights!
Engeron, who studied at Columbia University and New York University Law School, was chosen to his post on the states Supreme Court First Judicial District in 2015.
Engeron previously fined Trump $110,000 and forced him to serve in the case. When Trump finally sat down, he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment.
James indicted Trump last month after a three-year investigation, in which he accused Trump of “countless cases of fraud.”
In addition to trying to get money back that she claims Trump has defrauded taxpayers, James is trying to take away his ability to do business in the state for years.
Trump attacked state AG Letitia James again
Judge Arthur Engoron fined Trump $110,000 for not attending a statement
Prosecutors in the civil suit accuse Trump and his three adult children of inflating real estate well above their actual valuations when seeking loans to expand his real estate empire. James accused Trump of inflating assets by billions and using those misjudgments to secure favorable loans.
“Claiming you have money you don’t is not the ‘Art of the Deal’. It’s the art of stealing,’ she said.
Trump’s Legal Team objected on Judge Engoron’s involvement in the case. They accuse James’s office of “wanting to assess the store” by citing Engoron’s experience with the case.
Trump attorney Alina Habba filed a letter with a state administrative judge late last month requesting that the case be moved to the commercial division of the court, which handles complex lawsuits, and away from Engoron.
Last week, she rejected the government’s motion in the case, calling it “no more than a thinly veiled attempt to keep this case with Judge Engoron rather than hand it over to the trade department where it belongs.”
Trump’s own team is accused of filing a lawsuit in Florida related to the FBI’s search for government documents in Mar-a-Lago in a court that judged Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon weeks before he left office confirmed, sitting on the couch .