Donald Trump faces a possible nine-figure calamity Friday when a judge is expected to release his decision in the former president’s contentious New York civil fraud trial.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $370 million in penalties after Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last year that Trump had over-inflated the value of his real estate holdings – including the size of his own Trump Tower penthouse apartment – in order to get favorable bank loan terms.
Trump has without evidence attacked the proceedings as a politically motivated hit job orchestrated by a Democratic attorney general and judge, whom he has repeatedly lashed in public and on social media.
“This crooked judgement (sic) will be a dark and sad day for the justice system in New York State,” Trump wrote Wednesday in an all-caps post on Truth Social on the expected judgment, which is expected Friday.
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The anticipated decision will come three weeks after a federal jury in Manhattan ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case.
And the ruling comes one day after a judge ruled that Trump will face criminal trial on March 25 in a separate New York case where he is charged with falsifying business records to hide…
