纽约一家上诉法院拒绝,至少目前拒绝,维持法官任命一名独立监察员监督前总统唐纳德·特朗普家族房地产公司的命令。
特朗普和纽约司法部长办公室本应在本周开始提交监控职位的候选人。
周三发布的裁决称,上诉庭的第一部门将在晚些时候重新考虑此事。
“在全体法官对该动议做出裁决之前,暂缓执行的申请被驳回,”该决定称。
曼哈顿州最高法院的法官亚瑟·恩戈伦(Arthur Engoron)表示,在一桩2.5亿美元的民事诉讼中,司法部长的调查人员已经在特朗普集团内部做出了“持续欺诈的全面证明”。
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特朗普的律师表示,监控是国家试图“控制”他的业务,但法官表示,监控的工作是狭隘的,监督特朗普财务状况声明的制作及其向第三方的传播。
作为诉讼的一部分,司法部长办公室表示,过去的声明具有误导性,夸大了特朗普的净资产,欺骗了贷款人和保险公司,给了特朗普比他应得的更好的条款。
特朗普否认有不当行为,并称这起诉讼是出于政治动机。
纽约州总检察长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯是一名民主党人,周二再次当选连任。
Judge won’t block monitor to oversee Trump Organization
A New York appellate court has declined, at least for now, to stay a judge's order appointing an independent monitor to oversee former President Donald Trump's family real estate firm.
Trump and the New York Attorney General's office were supposed to begin submitting candidates for the monitor job this week.
The decision, issued Wednesday, said the Appellate Division's First Department would reconsider the matter at a later time.
"The application for an interim stay is denied pending determination of the motion by a full bench," the decision said.
Judge Arthur Engoron of State Supreme Court in Manhattan said the attorney general's investigators had made a "comprehensive demonstration of persistent fraud" within the Trump Organization in a $250 million civil lawsuit.
Trump's attorneys said the monitor was the state's attempt to "seize control" of his business but the judge said the monitor's job is to be narrow, overseeing the production of Trump's statements of financial condition and their dissemination to third parties.
As part of the lawsuit, the attorney general's office said past statements were misleading, inflated Trump's net worth and duped lenders and insurance companies into giving Trump better terms than he deserved.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and has called the lawsuit politically motivated.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, was reelected Tuesday for a second term.