(The Center Square) — Former President Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s ruling that the GOP presidential frontrunner lied about the value of his real estate empire.
Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal on Monday asking a state appeals court to overturn Superior Court Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling in a civil fraud lawsuit brought in 2022 by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
In a court filing, Trump’s legal team said they were appealing the judgment and accused Engoron of “errors of law and/or fact, abused its discretion, and/or acted in excess of its jurisdiction.”
During the trial, Trump’s lawyers argued that the statute of limitations prohibits the allegations and that Engoron failed to comply with an Appellate Division ruling last year ordering him to narrow the scope of the trial. He has also accused the judge of being biased against him and that he has abused his authority.
In a ruling issued in September, Engoron found that Trump, his company, and top executives, including his sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, deceived banks and insurers by inflating the value of his family’s wealth on financial statements used to secure loans.
Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million in penalties, which, with interest, has grown to nearly $454 million. That fine will increase by nearly $112,000 daily until he pays.
The ruling also stipulates that the former president’s sons can’t serve as officers or directors of any New York corporation for two years. The judge also fined Trump’s sons $4 million each.
Trump’s lawyers argue in court filings that he is worth several billion dollars in addition to properties and other investments. James, a Democrat, has said she will seek to seize some of his assets if Trump doesn’t pay the fines.
The civil case is one of Trump’s many legal challenges as he continues his march to the GOP presidential nomination to challenge incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden in November.
He has been indicted on four different criminal charges, including a plot to overturn his 2020 presidential election and keeping classified documents at his Florida home.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing, claiming the indictments are part of a politically motivated “witch hunt” to keep him off the ballot. He has described Engoron’s decision as “election interference” and accused him of “weaponization against a political opponent.”
Just one more Democrat party of government perversion type national imagined tempest right before an election, that is proven to be just a tempest in a tea pot AFTER the election once the votes are stolen by any means necessasy, even the loss of integrity of a once great Democrat party that used to have the privilege of calling themselves American Democrats but now are about as foreign National Socialist in their contrived government sponsored eliminations of their political opponents as the National Socialists that took over GErmany in 1934. Biden is mentally too far gone to fill the shoes of a Hitler, but there are others like Newsom, Pelosi and Schiff who constantly prove themselves capable.
1John 4:1
“beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world”,,justas many false Profits were laundered by Joe, another reason he hides from cross examinations, or off the cuff extemporaneous press questions whose false answers were not written down on cards by his handlers.
IF they thought jan 6th was ‘harsh’. JUST IMAGINE the whirlwind that could come, if they try to steal THIS election as well!
They have already got the razor wire cut in sections that can be installed in a few hours notice, having seen how effective in Texas it is in keeping out people that might want to kill you. The fast and furious weapons have arleady been issued to the Democrat Congressional staff to be ready for mass moments of Ashley Babbit type defences, with our women and children first to be snatched up and sent to re-indoctrination centers of future socialist breeding.