According to a NEWSMAX report, former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is preparing to appeal his $355 million fine imposed in New York’s civil fraud trial by challenging Judge Arthur Engoron’s definition of fraud.
“The case raises serious legal and constitutional questions regarding ‘fraud’ claims/findings without any actual fraud,” Chris Kise, Trump’s principal lawyer in the case, told Newsweek.
From NEWSMAX:
Trump and his lawyers previously vowed to appeal Engoron’s ruling to New York’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, ABC News reported.
Kise told Newsweek the appeal’s filing “will fall within the 30-day clock” allowed by the court, though he did give a specific date.
Syracuse University of Law Professor Greg Germain told Newsweek that Trump will need to show that New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James does not have the power to punish him “without showing the traditional elements of fraud: (1) scienter — basically intent to defraud, (2) false statements of fact rather than opinion or trade puffing, (3) reasonable reliance by the victims, (4) materiality, (5) causation, and (6) damages.”
“I think he has a strong argument that when the attorney general seeks to punish for past use, rather than prevent future use, she would have to show all of the traditional elements of fraud,” Germain told the outlet.
More over at NEWSMAX:
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