„How would you compare the fraud you’re alleging to the Madoff Ponzi scheme,“ Trump’s fraud-trial judge asked Thursday.
In a possible bad omen for Donald Trump, the judge in his New York fraud trial interrupted Thursday’s closing arguments to ask a lawyer for the New York attorney general’s office to compare him to Bernie Madoff.
„I often say I don’t enforce morality, I enforce the law,“ the judge presiding over the three-month non-jury trial, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, said at the end of day-long closing arguments — which included a surprise statement by Trump himself.
„But in a case like this, there is some place for morality,“ Engoron continued, addressing Kevin Wallace, a lead lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office brought the $370 million lawsuit now heading to verdict.
„How would you compare the fraud you’re alleging to the Madoff Ponzi scheme?“ the judge asked.
„It’s smaller,“ Wallace answered, „in that there were a smaller number of people affected.
