Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered President Donald J. Trump to pay almost $355 million dollars in the Democrat case against the former president in New York. The ruling also prohibits certain members of the Trump Organization from doing business in the Empire State. President Trump will appeal the judgment.
Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric Trump, were also ordered to pay $4 million each.
New York Attorney General Letita James had pleaded with the state to order Trump to pay at least $370 million.
Speaking earlier this week, Trump lawyer Alina Habba remarked: “I don’t have high hopes; I do believe that there is some ethics left. I hope that Judge Engoron sees through this, but… I’ve been on weeks and weeks and weeks of trial in New York, and the corruption runs deep; the Trump Derangement Syndrome frankly runs even deeper.”
Judge Engoron is a Democrat donor whose “co-judge” law clerk, Allison Greenfield, has attended events endorsing AG James, a Democrat, and Joe Biden.
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Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered President Donald J. Trump to pay almost $355 million dollars in the Democrat case against the former president in New York. The ruling also prohibits certain members of the Trump Organization from doing business in the Empire State. President Trump will appeal the judgment.
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Aliba Habba, representing Donald Trump and his business empire in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud against them, says she does not have “high hopes” as she awaits Judge Arthur Engoron’s decision expected Friday morning.
“If I could file the appeal now, I would,” Habba said on Wednesday, warning there are “no surprises coming here.”
“I don’t have high hopes; I do believe that there is some ethics left. I hope that Judge Engoron sees through this, but… I’ve been on weeks and weeks and weeks of trial in New York, and the corruption runs deep; the Trump Derangement Syndrome frankly runs even deeper,” she added.
The lawsuit threatens a $370 million financial penalty and a permanent ban from New York real estate dealings. Judge Engoron, a Democrat donor whose “co-judge” law clerk, Allison Greenfield, has attended events endorsing AG James, a Democrat, and Joe Biden.
While AG James claims Trump defrauded banks by overvaluing his assets to secure loans, some of the valuations accepted by Engoron, such as valuing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate at just $18 million, have been heavily criticized.
Habba has also contended all loans were paid back on time, so there is no actual victim in the case.
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Habba: They can't apply law to fact. There was absolutely no laws broken. People made money.
Aliba Habba, representing Donald Trump and his business empire in New York Attorney General Letitia James's civil fraud against them, says she does not have "high hopes" as she awaits Judge Arthur Engoron's decision expected Friday morning.
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Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, valued at just $18 million by Judge Arthur Engoron in a civil fraud trial against the former president, sold for $20 million in 1981.
“In 1981, the New York Times reported that Mar-a-Lago was for sale for $20 million,” commented America First lawmaker Rep. Matt Gaetz, sharing a clipping of the story.
“Now, 43 years later New York Judge Engoron expects you to believe that Mar-a-Lago has not appreciated a cent and is actually worth $18 million.”
The discrepancy is even worse than Gaetz suggests, however, as $20 million in 1981 was the equivalent of roughly $70 million by 2023, due to decades of inflation.
The fraud case against Trump, brought by Democrat Attorney General Letitia James, hinges mainly on allegations Trump overvalued his business empire when applying for bank loans.
Engoron valuing Mar-a-Lago at just $18 million has been one of the most contentious events of the trial, with an expert witness valuing the property at over a billion dollars.
In 1981, the New York Times reported that Mar-a-Lago was for sale for $20 million.
Now, 43 years later New York Judge Engoron expects you to believe that Mar-a-Lago has not appreciated a cent, and is actually worth $18 million. pic.twitter.com/2SmpiVg8Vq
Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, valued at just $18 million by Judge Arthur Engoron in a civil fraud trial against the former president, sold for $20 million in 1981.
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President Donald Trump addressed the courtroom despite Judge Arthur Engoron’s repeated attempts to stop him from doing so in New York today, stating: “The facts are the financial statements are perfect, that there are no witnesses against us. The banks got all their money paid back. There were great loans.”
The former President went on: “This was a political witch hunt,” adding, “We should receive damages.”
“We have a situation where I’m an innocent man I’ve been persecuted by somebody running for office and I think you have to go outside the bounds,” the 45th president said.
“What’s happened here sir is a fraud on me,” Trump said. “They want to make sure that I don’t win again and this is partially election interference.”
Engoron, however, stated his belief that “[t]here does not have to be any evidence of harm,” in the case against Trump, effectively confirming Trump’s assertions that the entire process has been a political trial.
NY Attorney General Letitia James is seeking almost $370 million from Trump, as well as a lifetime ban on him doing business in the state of New York.
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President Donald Trump addressed the courtroom despite Judge Arthur Engoron's repeated attempts to stop him from doing so in New York today, stating: “The facts are the financial statements are perfect, that there are no witnesses against us. The banks got all their money paid back. There were great loans."
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Lawrence Moens, a witness in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, says Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is worth at least a billion dollars. Democrat-linked Judge Arthur Engoron and his partisan aide Allison Greenfield had valued it at just $18 million.
“It’s something breathtaking. It’s something amazing to see,” Moens told the court on Tuesday.
Far from having overvalued the property in loan applications, Moens believes Trump significantly undervalued it. This is in line with Trump’s own contention that the numbers he submitted excluded his personal brand value.
Moens put Mar-a-Lago’s value in 2011 at ~$655 million, compared to a Trump valuation of ~$426 million. Moens put Mar-a-Lago’s value in 2021 at over a billion dollars, compared to a Trump valuation of ~$612 million.
During a moment when he sent Moens out of the courtroom, Engoron claimed that whether or not Trump overvalued his properties was “not the bottom issue for me.” He insisted the real issue was whether or not “false documents” were submitted to secure favorable loan agreements.
Trump and his team say no one besides the Democrat Attorney General has complained, and all loans have been fully repaid. The former president has also branded the Attorney General, her case, and Engoron himself a “disgrace”.
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Lawrence Moens, a witness in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, says Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is worth at least a billion dollars. Democrat-linked Judge Arthur Engoron and his partisan aide Allison Greenfield had valued it at just $18 million.
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A New York appellate court has denied a motion by Donald Trump’s legal team to lift a gag order barring the former President and his attorneys from publicly mentioning Judge Arthur Engoron’s principle law clerk Allison Greenfield. The ruling ends the temporary relief granted to Trump by Appellate Judge David Friedman two weeks ago.
Former President Trump and his legal team have publicly accused Judge Engoron’s principle law clerk, Allison Greenfield, of bias and impropriety in the course of the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The National Pulse previously reported Greenfield has recently been involved with leading anti-Trump organizations in New York City, including the Grand Street Democrats.
In early November Greenfield attended a Grand Street Democrats event where speakers and the organization itself endorsed Attorney General Letitia James, whose partisan campaigning sparked the case against Trump in the first instance. Judge Engoron has defended Greenfield’s participation in the trial, while fining Trump $15,000 for perceived violations of his imposed gag order.
On November 16, Judge Friedman ruled to temporarily lift the gag order imposed by the New York civil fraud trial judge, Arthur Engoron. Temporary relief was granted while the New York Appeals Court’s four judge panel considered concerns Engoron’s gag order infringed on Trump’s free speech rights.
A New York appellate court has denied a motion by Donald Trump's legal team to lift a gag order barring the former President and his attorneys from publicly mentioning Judge Arthur Engoron's principle law clerk Allison Greenfield. The ruling ends the temporary relief granted to Trump by Appellate Judge David Friedman two weeks ago.
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Arthur Engoron, the Democrat donor judge overseeing a civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump, is upset members of the public are insulting him and “co-judge” Allison Greenfield. Court officials have filed affidavits arguing a gag order preventing Donald Trump from criticizing Engoron should not be lifted, supposedly to reduce the number of insults.
Court Officer-Captain Charles Hollon alleged Trump violated the gag order with remarks alleging “[Chuck] Schumer’s girlfriend, Allison R. Greenfield, is running this case against me.”
“When Mr Trump violated the gag orders, the number of threatening, harassing and disparaging messages increased,” claimed Hollon.
He provided transcripts of voicemails left for Engoron, describing the judge as a “little fruit cake” and a “fagot [sic] dork”. Other messages suggested Greenfield, his Democrat-linked law clerk, fellates his “micro penis”.
Some of the messages were anti-Semitic in character, though in others the caller said they “love Jewish [p]eople.” Some of the messages appeared threatening, suggesting Engoron “should be killed,” but others said he should “not [be] assassin executed… But [after] trial executed for your crimes.”
“The messages received by Justice Engoron and his staff every day [have] created an ongoing security risk for the judge, his staff and his family,” Hollon claimed, insisting the gag order reduced the volume of supposed threats.
Threats sent to the voicemail of Judge Arthur Engoron, according to an affidavit filed by Charles Hollon, a Court Officer-Captain in the NY Department of Public Safety. pic.twitter.com/b9T90WfXBo
Arthur Engoron, the Democrat donor judge overseeing a civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump, is upset members of the public are insulting him and "co-judge" Allison Greenfield. Court officials have filed affidavits arguing a gag order preventing Donald Trump from criticizing Engoron should not be lifted, supposedly to reduce the number of insults.
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Donald Trump has given Joe Biden, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Judge Engoron, and a host of other colorful characters both barrels in a Thanksgiving message shared to Truth Social.
“Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE,” wrote the former president in reference to the Democrat AG, who is currently pursuing civil fraud charges against his business empire.
Arthur Engoron, the Democrat donor judge overseeing the case, also came in for criticism, with Trump slamming him as “Radical Left” and a “Psycho” and accusing him of “criminally” defrauding both himself and New York by, among other things, appearing to grossly undervalue his Mar-a-Lago estate in order to rule against him. Trump also took aim at Enogoron’s law clerk and “co-judge” Allison Greenfield, a Democrat activist who has attended events endorsing AG James, alleging she “sit[s] by his side on the ‘Bench’ & tells him what to do”.
Finally, he fired a lengthy broadside at “Crooked Joe Biden,” his “Department of Injustice,” and “all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.”
“Have no fear, however, we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024, & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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Donald Trump has given Joe Biden, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Judge Engoron, and a host of other colorful characters both barrels in a Thanksgiving message shared to Truth Social.
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Allison Greenfield, law clerk to Judge Arthur Engoron, has been recently involved with leading anti-Trump organizations in New York City, and has even been caught on camera attending the “Fall Event” of a group called the “Grand Street Democrats” in October 2022.
Greenfield – whose partisan activities were the basis for Judge Arthur Engoron’s now-overturned gag order against President Donald Trump – has been advising Engoron throughout the case, notably glaring at Trump and rolling her eyes during presentations by Trump’s lawyers, according to in-court witnesses.
Footage posted to the Judicial Protest X account early November shows Greenfield at the Grand St Dems event where speakers and the organization itself endorsed Attorney General Letitia James, whose partisan campaigning sparked the case against Trump in the first instance. The group has also endorsed James on its website:
Greenfield is also featured prominently on the Grand St Dems pages, and can be seen in the video, below, cheering for Joe Biden and even exclaiming, “Marijuana, heh heh heh!” at one point in the video (1:02), raising questions about her own potential drug use and advocacy:
BOMBSHELL video evidence of bias and misconduct of Justice Engoron’s Law Clerk, Allison Greenfield, just uncovered. MISTRIAL INCOMING!!!
While attending an October 2022 Democrat Fundraiser, Greenfield can be heard saying Biden is the “best President in the history of the United… pic.twitter.com/EIvS8TdNkE
This level of involvement in highly partisan activity is wildly unusual for a law clerk, especially one presiding over a trial of a former president and current presidential candidate running against the very people Greenfield is heard cheering on in the video.
Speakers at the event hurled epithets at Trump supporters, calling the MAGA movement “dangerous” and “anti-democratic,” while also claiming to have seen “the consequences of the former president [Trump]” in New York.
An image of Greenfield posing with far-left activists for the Grand St Dems Instagram page was even “liked” by former lead counsel in the first Trump impeachment, Dan Goldman, highlighting the anti-Trump nature of the event.
By her own admission, Greenfield has acted as a “co-judge” in the New York case against Donald Trump – something highly inappropriate for an unelected member of court staff. Greenfield has gone so far as to refer to herself and the judge using the term ‘we‘ at a candidate forum. Greenfield, at the time, was seeking office as a judge on the Manhattan Civil Court.
At the same candidate forum, Greenfield stated her judicial philosophy would be driven not by the facts and the law, but by political considerations. She said: “[o]ne thing that I think is incredibly important to consider, what would the people who elected me want me to do and is there any precedent… that would allow me to achieve that outcome.”
Greenfield’s view of the law is far outside the judicial mainstream, and in clear violation of New York’s Rules of Judicial Conduct which state: “A judge shall be faithful to the law and maintain professional competence in it. A judge shall not be swayed by partisan interests, public clamor or fear of criticism.” Another concerning revelation is that Greenfield has been in violation of the Rules of Judicial Conduct throughout the course of the trial dude to her political contributions:
The mistrial filing cited above, provides nearly three pages of political contributions made in excess of the limits set by the Rules for Judicial Conduct. Some of the groups Greenfield contributed to, while the civil fraud case against Trump was pending, included organizations that were actively and publicly supporting Letitia James for Attorney General – raising further concerns regarding partisan impropriety by Engoron’s law clerk.
Less than two weeks before James filed her civil fraud case against former President Trump, the Grand Street Democrats organization posted on X (formerly Twitter):
The mistrial filing by former President Trump’s attorneys also makes clear that much of this information was hidden from the public and the court because of Engoron’s gag order. Late on Friday, November 17th, Engoron rejected the mistrial filing, claiming the long trail of evidence against Greenfield was “without merit”.
Will Upton contributed to this report.
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Allison Greenfield, law clerk to Judge Arthur Engoron, has been recently involved with leading anti-Trump organizations in New York City, and has even been caught on camera attending the "Fall Event" of a group called the "Grand Street Democrats" in October 2022.
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A New York appeals court judge has lifted a gag order that had previously restrained former president Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers involved in his civil fraud trial. The gag order, imposed last month by trial judge Arthur Engoron and accompanied by a fine of $15,000 for violation, followed after Trump criticized court staff for political bias in asocial media post. The decision to pause the gag order by Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court arrived amid concerns about infringements on Trump’s free speech rights.
Trump’s lawyers, responding to the aforementioned gag order, have filed a lawsuit against Engoron, accusing the trial judge of abuse of power. Following this action, an emergency hearing was set on Thursday afternoon by Judge Friedman in a state appellate courthouse, located several miles away from the ongoing trial.
The central issue at hand pertains to Trump’s claims of improper influence by law clerk Allison Greenfield in the trial. His defense team has frequently highlighted Greenfield during the trial, alleging the former Democratic judicial candidate has assumed an oversized role in the case against the ex-Republican president. Judge Engoron has defended Greenfield’s participation in the trial, responded with fining Trump for perceived violations, and further prohibited lawyers from commenting on “confidential communications” with his staff.
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A New York appeals court judge has lifted a gag order that had previously restrained former president Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers involved in his civil fraud trial. The gag order, imposed last month by trial judge Arthur Engoron and accompanied by a fine of $15,000 for violation, followed after Trump criticized court staff for political bias in asocial media post. The decision to pause the gag order by Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court arrived amid concerns about infringements on Trump's free speech rights.
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