The New York judiciary granted Donald Trump a temporary reprieve in his civil fraud trial on Friday, October 6, suspending the partial dissolution of the former President of the United States’ New York real estate empire. The Republican billionaire, who was the favorite in the polls to win his party’s primary for the 2024 presidential election, filed an appeal on Wednesday to halt his case in a first instance court called the Supreme Court of New York.
The hearings, without a jury but with Donald Trump present, began on Monday, October 2nd, but were preceded on September 26th by a surprise summary decision by Judge Arthur Engoron, in which he concluded that ” “repeated fraud” by the Trump Organization group, and the order to revoke the business licenses in New York State of Donald Trump and two of his two sons, Don Jr. and Eric. In a ruling by a New York appeals court on Friday, reported by the legal press, the justices refused to stay the trial but decided to suspend “the implementation of the suspension of commercial licenses” and the seizure of Trump family companies.
“It is chaos and it is chaos now”
It’s a partial victory for the former president, who gets a reprieve from the partial dissolution of his real estate group ordered by Judge Engoron last week. His colleague, appellate judge Peter Moulton, listened Friday to Trump’s lawyers and representatives of the plaintiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is demanding $250 million in repairs.
The real estate empire “is owned and controlled by (Trump). Once it’s dissolved, it’s dissolved. It is chaos and there is chaos now,” argued a defense attorney for Donald Trump, Christopher Kise, who was present in the appeals court, according to ABC Television. Opposite, Letitia James’ representative, Judy Vale, argued that “there is absolutely no legal basis for temporarily suspending a trial that has already been going on for a week.”