Judge Engoron Delays Ruling Until Mid-February

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Isn't the Special Monitor a part of this case and her report part of the Judge's deliberation. So maybe the OP is not "WRONG"

https://news.yahoo.com/special-monitor-suggests-trump-falsified-071730176.html

Tucked into a footnote in a letter written by a former federal judge, Barbara Jones — the court-appointed special monitor overseeing Donald Trump's New York business-fraud case — is a bombshell that appears to indicate the former president may have engaged in massive tax evasion, The Daily Beast reported.

The letter, first reported by The Messenger, was delivered Friday to update Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Jones' findings while reviewing the former president's business dealings through the Trump Organization.

So here we see the findings were done for Judge Engoron. On can only conclude that the findings, which include this suspect loan, were germane to his ruling.