Current location:entertainment >>
Judge Denies Trump Relief From $83.3 Million Defamation Judgment
entertainment889People have gathered around
IntroductionNEW YORK —The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 millio ...
The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist from Donald Trump refused Thursday to relieve the ex-president from the verdict's financial pinch.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told Trump's attorney in a written order that he won't delay deadlines for posting a bond that would ensure 80-year-old writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the award if the judgment survives appeals.
The judge said any financial harm to the Republican front-runner for the presidency results from his slow response to the late-January verdict in the defamation case resulting from statements Trump made about Carroll while he was president in 2019 after she revealed her claims that he raped her in her memoir.
At the time, Trump accused her of making up claims that he raped her in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store in spring 1996. A jury last May at a trial Trump did not attend awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, finding that Trump sexually abused her but did not rape her as rape was defined under New York state law. It also concluded that he defamed her in statements in October 2022.
Trump attended the January trial and briefly testified, though his remarks were severely limited by the judge, who had ruled that the jury had to accept the May verdict and was only to decide how much in damages, if any, Carroll was owed for Trump's 2019 statements. In the statements, Trump claimed he didn't know Carroll and accused her of making up lies to sell books and harm him politically.
Trump's lawyers have challenged the judgment, which included a $65 million punitive award, saying there was a "strong probability" it will be reduced or eliminated on appeal.
In his order Thursday, Kaplan noted that Trump's lawyers waited 25 days to seek to delay when a bond must be posted. The judgment becomes final Monday.
"Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," Kaplan wrote.
Kaplan said the expense of ongoing litigation does not constitute irreparable injury.
Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, did not immediately comment.
Since the January verdict, a state court judge in New York in a separate case has ordered Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in penalties for a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth. With interest, he owes the state nearly $454 million.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Culture Cross news portal”。http://monaco.izmirambar.net/news-9e299916.html
Related articles
Shooting injures 2 at Missouri high school graduation ceremony
entertainmentCAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Two people were injured when gunfire broke out during a high school gradu ...
Read moreSolomon Islanders vote in key election for their country, region — Radio Free Asia
entertainmentSolomon Islanders queued to vote in the rain and under a boiling sun, undeterred by fickle weather o ...
Read moreUS navy flies aircraft through the Taiwan Strait a day after US
entertainmentTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on ...
Read more
Popular articles
- Not so Cool Britannia! Noel Gallagher gives damning verdict on Keir Starmer
- Italy seeks G7 message to de
- California game store thief is wrestled to ground during robbery
- Billionaire Barry Diller and fashion designer wife Diane von Furstenberg pay $45million for 1.5
- California congressman urges closer consultation with tribes on offshore wind
- CERAWeek kicks off, focusing on global multidimensional energy transition
Latest articles
Uber and Lyft say they'll stay in Minnesota after Legislature passes driver pay compromise
Japan records a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year despite recovering exports
UK inflation falls to lowest level since late 2021 as food prices ease further
French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics
Candice Swanepoel stuns in a form
The Latest
LINKS
- Federal prosecutor in Arkansas stepped down while being investigated, report says
- Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina
- Massive change coming to RHS Chelsea Flower Show
- Paul McCartney is Britain's first billionaire musician, an annual list says
- Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development
- What to expect in Idaho's state primary and Democratic presidential caucus
- Scottie Scheffler is back to business as usual as the World No 1 shoots opening four
- Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina
- Bike shops boomed early in the pandemic. It’s been a bumpy ride for most ever since
- German parliament approves plans to relax strict restrictions on family names