Seems like today could be a very big news day.
Former President Trump is expected to be back in a New York courtroom Monday as his lawyers battle with the state over new documents turned over in Trump’s hush money case.
Monday was supposed to be the day the hush money trial began, but a surprise development has delayed the trial until at least mid-April. Judge Juan Merchan will instead hold a hearing to sort out the blame game over the new documents and mull Trump’s contention that an additional delay is warranted.
Also Monday, Trump faces a major deadline to pay a $454 million judgment in a separate case out of New York, in which he was found liable for fraud. If he fails to pay up, he faces possible seizure of some of his most famous properties.
**Update Fraud Trial **
Appellate Judges Ruled a stay in the Fraud case at a reduced amount.
Trump has 10 days to pay $175 million and this will paused any seizure of assets through his appeal.
Two parts of the judgement are going through. The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization does have more power including needing to be informed beforehand of big moves AND Trump Organization needs to hire an Independent Director of Compliance.
Update Criminal Trial
The judge has seemed skeptical of Trump's motion. Questioning why they only subpoenaed SDNY recently and why they didn't mention this to the judge earlier and indicating the Manhattan DA is not at fault
Judge said
The People went so far above and beyond what they were required to do that it’s odd that we’re even here.
The issue in criminal court is Trump had asked the Manhattan DA for any material on Michael Cohen, including material from his federal case. This should regularly be turned over in discovery.
Cohen was convicted in 2018 and did time for five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate for the "principal purpose of influencing an election. Also he 2018 he was convicted of lying to Congress.
The Manhattan DA say they turned over what they. Trump's lawyers subpoenaed the US Attorney for Cohen material and a boatload was turned over just recently. This is what caused today's hearing and pushed the trial date back. 100,000 pages of records were turned over. The Manhattan DA said most of these were not new and “only limited materials relevant to the subject matter of this case and that have not previously been disclosed to defendant.”
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24493579-20240319-peoples-mol-re-usao-production
Trump is court and the hearing has started.
Judge said Trump accused prosecutors of "serious discovery violations" and "widespread misconduct."
No audio or cameras in NY courtrooms
Judge issued his ruling.
Merchan finds the DA is "not at fault" for the late production of documents.
"The People have complied and continues to comply" with their discovery obligations.
Jury Selection is April 15th.
Trump just flashed a thumbs up as he headed back into the courtroom after the fraud trial bond was reduced by more than half
Stormy needs to pony up the 400 million she owes Trump first
Trump should bring duffels of cash...
https://youtu.be/BrSS40mphrM?si=pwAhLvEff2-_aW4B
heh, there was Netflix documentary on scammers and they had a these guys who robbed an airport where pallets of cash were being processed and they were totally unprepared for how heavy the cash was and struggled to get out with just some of it.