Lawyers for the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, asked the New York attorney general void, “for the good of the country”the fine of nearly 454 million dollars imposed on the magnate and several of his relatives for financial fraud.
“We write to ask that you completely dismiss the case (…) against President Donald J. Trump, his family and his companies, and that you stipulate annul the judgment and dismiss all claims” against him, reads the letter addressed to Letitia James, equivalent to Minister of Justice of the state of New York, by her lawyer John Sauer, and published by the local press.
Trump and his family were sentenced in mid-February to pay a $454 million fine after being found guilty of financial fraud through his business empire, the Trump Organization.
Both the now president-elect and his sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump appealed the ruling of this sentence.
His lawyer, who has been rewarded by Trump with the position of government representative before the Supreme Court, evokes the “historic victory” in the presidential elections of November 5 and the need to end the polarization of the country.
“You have the opportunity to help heal this division,” says the lawyer to the African-American prosecutor belonging to the Democratic Party, who in October 2022 filed a civil lawsuit against the Trumps and the family business, which ended in a trial before the Court. Supreme Court of the State of New York.
The Trumps were convicted in February of inflating the value of their properties to obtain more favorable rates on loans and insurance.
The request to annul the conviction coincides with a series of legal victories for the magnate after the election result that has generated an unprecedented situation, since in more than half a century, the Department of Justice has never prosecuted a sitting president.
The Manhattan judge in the case of buying the silence of former porn actress Stormy Daniels adjourned last week indefinitely the sentence that was going to be announced on November 26while resolving a motion by Trump’s defense to dismiss the case.
A judge this week closed another case for electoral interference after recommendations from special prosecutor Jack Smith to dismiss this and another case that would put the tycoon on the bench for taking confidential documents when he left the White House in 2021.
“This case deserves the same treatment,” Sauer wrote.
The Republican magnate has repeated that he is the victim of “a witch hunt” by “the Democratic clique.”
