Trump posts corrected fraud bond after New York court rejected documents: Live [View all]
Source: Yahoo! News/Independent
Thu, 4 April 2024 at 1:40 pm GMT-4
Donald Trump has now filed new paperwork related to the $175m bond he posted on Monday to appeal the $464m New York fraud judgement against him after it was rejected and “returned for correction”, according to the New York County Supreme Court. The documentation failed to include a current financial statement for Knight Specialty Insurance (which is underwriting the bond) or list an attorney-in-fact. These have now been added.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump suffered a further legal setback when his efforts to have his upcoming Manhattan hush money trial delayed on presidential immunity grounds were rejected.
Judge Juan Merchan ruled that “the defendant had myriad opportunities to raise the claim of presidential immunity” long before he ever did and that, because the justice was denying the motion on that basis, he need not address whether immunity “precludes the introduction of evidence of purported official presidential acts in a criminal proceeding”.
Meanwhile, Special Counsel Jack Smith has slammed Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing the classified documents case in Florida, to reject the ex-president’s contention that he had any claim to personal ownership over the boxes of top secret files reclaimed by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.
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Link to corrected filing (PDF) - https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=exguJEXpWSu8fdl09aJOjw==
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