Former President Donald Trump appealed a New York court decision on Monday to fine him more than $355 million in penalties, plus millions more in interest, and ban him from doing business in New York for fraudulently inflating his net worth to secure more favorable loans.
Trump asked a state appellate court to overturn Justice Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 16 ruling in a civil fraud lawsuit brought in 2022 by state Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat who campaigned on investigating the former president.
Former President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial in the Manhattan borough of New York on Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP)
In their appeal, Trump’s lawyers wrote that the intermediate-level state appeals court should decide whether Engoron “committed errors of law and/or fact” and whether he abused his discretion or
Read more…
