Appeals judges in New York fielded multiple questions to the New York attorney general’s office on Sept. 26 indicating they were skeptical of its application of an anti-fraud law to former President Donald Trump’s business practices.
The questions came during oral argument over Trump’s claims that the state Supreme Court erred in handling the civil fraud case, which resulted in a $489 million penalty for the former president.
Trump’s attorney, D. John Sauer, told a five-judge panel in the court’s appellate division that the judge and prosecutors flouted time limits on the claims involved. He added that Attorney General Letitia James’s office pressed an overly broad interpretation of legally punishable fraud and that, regardless, the former president hadn’t committed fraud in his dealings with banks and others….