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   From: chicor@nytimes.com   
      
   Lawyers for Donald J. Trump filed an appeal on Monday evening seeking to   
   dismiss or drastically reduce the $454 million judgment levied against   
   him this year in a New York civil fraud case, the latest maneuver in the   
   former president’s multiple legal battles.   
      
   The filing made a raft of arguments questioning the judgment handed down   
   in February by Justice Arthur F. Engoron, who found that Mr. Trump had   
   conspired to manipulate his net worth and lied about the value of his   
   properties to receive more favorable terms on loans.   
      
   The suit was brought by Attorney General Letitia James of New York, a   
   Democrat, who hailed her victory over Mr. Trump as having demonstrated   
   that “there cannot be different rules for different people in this   
   country.”   
      
   In their lengthy appeal to the First Department of the State Supreme   
   Court’s Appellate Division, however, Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that   
   many of the deals in question in Ms. James’s suit had occurred long ago   
   and that the statute of limitations for violations it cited had run out.   
      
   They also questioned the size of the judgment awarded by Justice   
   Engoron, calling it disproportionate and suggesting that the judge had   
   overcounted damages and miscalculated the profits from some of the   
   properties named in Ms. James’s suit.   
      
   Taken as a whole, the appeal — peppered with talking points from Mr.   
   Trump’s campaign and his public criticism of the case — seeks to show   
   that the former president’s dealings were business as usual, and that no   
   harm was caused.   
      
   “There were no victims and no losses,” the appeal reads, adding that Mr.   
   Trump’s business partners had “raved internally about their business   
   with him and were eager for more.”   
      
   If, it added, Mr. Trump’s actions constituted fraud, “then that word has   
   no meaning,” and the attorney general’s “power to seize and destroy   
   private businesses is boundless — and standardless.”   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/nyregion/trump-fraud-appeal.html   
      
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