{"id":424657,"date":"2024-11-28T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424657"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Trump-seeks-to-have-civil-fraud-ruling-quashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Trump-seeks-to-have-civil-fraud-ruling-quashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks to have civil fraud ruling quashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has sought to have a civil judgment against him for fraud and a $464 million penalty set aside &#8220;for the greater good of the country&#8221; as he prepares to return to power.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s lawyers filed a letter Tuesday with New York attorney general Letitia James, who brought the proceeding against the president-elect for manipulating his assets when applying for loans and insurances.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against Trump in February, going on to order the mogul-turned-politician pay $464 million, including interest, while his sons Eric and Don Jr. were told to hand over more than $4 million each.<\/p>\n<p>Trump subsequently sought to challenge the civil ruling as well as the scale and terms of the penalty, which has continued to accrue interest while he appeals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We write to request that you completely dismiss the above-referenced case against President Donald J. Trump, his family, and his businesses, and stipulate to vacate the Judgment and dismiss all claims with prejudice,&#8221; said the letter from attorney John Sauer, Trump&#8217;s nominee for solicitor general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the aftermath of his historic election victory, President Trump has called for our Nation&#8217;s partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to join forces for the greater good of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This call for unity extends to the legal onslaught against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, reported by US media, Sauer pointed to recent moves to end or suspend proceedings in several of the criminal cases that Trump had faced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case warrants the same treatment. As detailed in our appellate briefing, this action exceeds the New York Attorney General&#8217;s authority under Executive Law&#8230; the dismissal of the case would restore (her) power to its more legitimate scope,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Sauer suggested that if James does not dismiss the case outright, he might seek to argue that the case is unconstitutional, as it interferes with Trump&#8217;s role as president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sauer did not respond to an AFP request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>gw\/jgc<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/59b1c48ab40836b4dc434e1cda4ee2cc.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in February that Trump and his company had unlawfully inflated his wealth and manipulated the value of properties<\/p>\n<p>-STEPHANIE KEITH<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has sought to have a civil judgment against him for fraud and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}