New York justice grants Trump a postponement in his civil fraud trial

On Friday, October 6, New York justice granted a temporary reprieve to Donald Trump in his civil trial on fraud charges, by suspending the partial dismantling of the New York real estate empire of the former president of the United States. The Republican billionaire, the front-runner in opinion polls for his party’s primary elections in the 2024 presidential elections, filed an appeal on Wednesday to stop his trial before a lower court called the “New York Supreme Court.”

The hearings, without a jury and with Donald Trump in attendance, began on Monday, October 2, but were preceded on September 26 by a surprise summary decision by Judge Arthur Engoron concluding that… “Frequent scams” From the Trump Organization group and orders the withdrawal of business licenses in New York State from Donald Trump and two of his sons, Don Jr. and Eric. In a ruling issued by the New York Court of Appeals on Friday, and published by the judicial press, the court refused to suspend the trial, but decided to suspend it. “Suspension of the implementation of the cancellation of commercial licenses” And the confiscation of Trump family companies.

“It’s chaos and it’s chaos now.”

This is a partial victory for the former president, who got a respite in the partial dismantling of his real estate group ordered by Judge Engoron last week. On Friday, his colleague, Appeals Judge Peter Moulton, heard from Trump’s lawyers and representatives of the plaintiff, New York State Attorney General (the equivalent of the local attorney general) Letitia James, who is demanding $250 million in repairs.

Real estate empire “You own it and you control it (trump). Once it melts, it melts. “It’s a mess and it’s a mess now.”He had defended Donald Trump’s defender, Christopher Casey, according to what was reported by the ABC television network, who is present in the Court of Appeal. On the other hand, Letitia James’s actress, Jodi Vale, said so“There was absolutely no legal basis to suspend the trial that had already been ongoing for a week.”.