A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s request to suspend his $10,000-a-day fine, keeping the former president’s account growing as he challenges a lower court decision that sanctioned him for failing to act. Submit documents for a state civil investigation.
Judge Tanya Kennedy of the state trial court’s appellate division denied Trump’s tentative request to suspend the fine pending his appeal. The court will rule on Trump’s motion to stay the fine later this month, Kennedy said.
Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, requested the stay Monday, a week after Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron fined Trump for failing to comply with a subpoena issued in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into his business.
Habba wrote in a court filing that Engoron’s ruling was “inadmissible and indefensible.” The judge found that Trump, who is appealing the ruling, and his attorneys had failed to show that they had conducted a proper search of the subpoenaed records.
By asking the appellate court to suspend the fine, Trump intended to prevent it from piling up as he tries to overturn Engoron’s ruling, which could save him hundreds of thousands of dollars if the appellate court upholds the contempt ruling.
In addition, Trump appealed Engoron’s February 17 ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath. Oral arguments in that appeal are scheduled for May 11.
In a written statement Tuesday, Trump, a Republican, lashed out at James and the state’s judicial system.
In addition, he called the attorney general, who is a black Democrat, “racist,” said the courts were “biased, inflexible, and totally unfair,” and claimed to have turned over “millions of pages of documents, perhaps more than any person or entity has ever delivered.”
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