This judgement should be **** canned on appeal. F*** AG Leticia James and that crooked Judge Engoron that presided over this politically motivated hit job designed to fleece Trump.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Appeals court judges signaled skepticism on Thursday toward the civil fraud case brought by New York state against Donald Trump as the former president asked them to toss a nearly half-billion dollar judgment against him over real estate business practices that a judge declared fraudulent.
Members of the five-judge panel on the Appellate Division - the mid-level state appellate court hearing arguments in Trump's appeal - appeared concerned about possible overreach by James.
They asked what constraints applied to the law James cited in bringing the case - one that is typically used to go after fraudsters who target vulnerable consumers.
Justice David Friedman pressed Deputy Solicitor General Judith Vale, arguing for the state, on whether there was any precedent for the attorney general suing over transactions involving sophisticated parties where neither "lost any money."
"Every case that you cite involves damage to consumers, damage to the marketplace. ... We don't have anything like that here," Friedman said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Appeals court judges signaled skepticism on Thursday toward the civil fraud case brought by New York state against Donald Trump as the former president asked them to toss a nearly half-billion dollar judgment against him over real estate business practices that a judge declared fraudulent.
Members of the five-judge panel on the Appellate Division - the mid-level state appellate court hearing arguments in Trump's appeal - appeared concerned about possible overreach by James.
They asked what constraints applied to the law James cited in bringing the case - one that is typically used to go after fraudsters who target vulnerable consumers.
Justice David Friedman pressed Deputy Solicitor General Judith Vale, arguing for the state, on whether there was any precedent for the attorney general suing over transactions involving sophisticated parties where neither "lost any money."
"Every case that you cite involves damage to consumers, damage to the marketplace. ... We don't have anything like that here," Friedman said.
