From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: NY appeals court slaps Judge Engoron hard
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:29:33 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:28:53 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>On 2025-08-25 04:29, NoBody wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:18:36 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-08-24 07:23, NoBody wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:34:06 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-08-23 11:18, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
>>>>> Did they overturn the verdict?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Didn't expect that they would because it's New York. That will get
>>>> addressed in future appeals.
>>>>
>>>> Your running away from the post is noted.
>>>
>>> It was a New York appellate court that threw out the award, doofus.
>>
>> Which is in......New York.
>>
>> <eyeroll>
>
>Which YOU said was the reason the verdict wasn't overturned...
>
>...so why the contradiction?
No contradiction at all. The award was SO outrageous that even a
liberal New York appeals court couldn't not toss it. The verdict
itself falls within their level of "acceptable" corruption. Look for
that to be overturned in another court at some point.