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The responsible New York judge, Arthur Engoron, rejected a defense request on Friday to invalidate the 41-year-old’s summons to the public prosecutor’s office. He also gave Ivanka Trump until November 1 to appeal the decision.
In the civil lawsuit, former President Donald Trump, 77, is accused of inflating the assets of his real estate empire over the years to get better terms for loans and insurance. The proceedings are also aimed at Trump’s eldest sons Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James also originally sued Ivanka Trump, who had long been a close adviser to her father. The allegations against the daughter of the 77-year-old Republican, who wants to run again for the presidential elections in November 2024, were later dropped. James still wants her to testify in court.
Judge Engoron had already ruled before the start of the trial that Trump had overestimated his real estate assets and had therefore committed ‘fraud’. The civil trial is therefore mainly concerned with the question of how high the penalty will be. Attorney General James has demanded, among other things, a fine of 250 million dollars (235 million euros). She also wants Trump and his two eldest sons to be banned from running businesses in New York. The ex-president is not threatened with a prison sentence in this case.
Trump, who has repeatedly appeared in person at the trial, has rejected all allegations and described them as politically motivated. In addition to the civil case, the ex-president has been charged in four criminal cases. Two charges relate to the right-wing populist’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and thus remain in power. (AFP)
Source: Blick
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