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Subject: NY appeals court slaps Judge Engoron hard
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:18:13 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
"In New York, a court revealed that a leading citizen had cooked the
books by inflating questionable figures without any support in
reality. Moreover, his wild overvaluation was widely viewed as
motivated by his self-aggrandizement. The final reported figures are
so absurdly inflated that they were rejected in their entirety. In the
end, he was off by over half a billion dollars.
That man is Judge Arthur Engoron.
After a New York appellate court unanimously threw out Engoron's
absurd half-a-billion-dollar judgment and interest against President
Donald Trump, the irony was crushing. It was Engoron who seemed, as he
characterized Trump witnesses, as having "simply denied reality." It
made his notorious reliance on an assessment of Mar-a-Lago as worth
between $18 million and $27.6 million seem like good accounting.
In the end, he could not get a single judge to preserve a single
dollar of that fine.
....
Other judges said that Engoron's fine was so off-base and engorged
that it was an unconstitutional order under the Eighth Amendment,
protecting citizens from "cruel and unusual" punishments. So, Engoron
not only inflated the figures but shredded the Constitution in his
effort to deliver a blow against Trump.
Trump can now appeal the residual parts of the Engoron decision
imposing limits on the Trump family doing business in New York. Some
of those limits could be moot by the time of any final judgment.
Ironically, if Engoron had shown a modicum of restraint, he might have
secured a victory. During the trial in New York, I said that he would
have been smart to impose a dollar fine and limited injunctive relief.
That, however, required a modicum of judicial restraint and judgment.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-who-fined-trump-500-million-gets-books-thrown-him
Lawfair at its ugliest soundly defeated.