A lawyer for New York attorney general disputed former President Donald Trump’s claim that he can’t secure more than $460 million needed to post bond and appeal his civil fraud ruling.
A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday disputed former President Donald Trump’s claim that he needed to post bond and appeal the civil fraud ruling against him, writing in a filing that the court should deny Trump’s “extraordinary request” to appeal without posting the full amount.
On Monday, Trump’s lawyers told the court handling the appeal that it was a “practical impossibility” that he and other defendants could obtain the bond by March 25.
In his response on Wednesday, Dennis Fan, a senior assistant solicitor general for the state, called Trump’s filing “procedurally improper” and said the court should disregard it. He wrote that Trump’s issues should have been raised in an earlier filing, and could have been, since “their efforts to obtain that bond began before their stay motion was filed and indeed before judgment was even entered.”
In February, a New York judge to pay more than $450 million in penalties and interest for a decade-long fraud scheme, one of the largest corporate sanctions in New York history. Trump must secure a bond for the full amount of the judgment, which , for his appeal to move forward. The attorney general has said the state would seize some of his assets if he’s unable to come up with the money.
