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Former President Donald Trump, pictured March 16, is unable to make the $464 million bond within the New York lawyer common’s civil fraud case, his legal professionals mentioned Monday. (Kamil Krzaczynski, AFP, Getty Photographs )
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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump cannot discover an insurance coverage firm to underwrite his bond to cowl the large judgment in opposition to him within the New York lawyer common’s civil fraud case, his legal professionals informed a New York appeals court docket.
Trump’s attorneys mentioned he has approached 30 underwriters to again the bond, which is due by the tip of this month.
“The quantity of the judgment, with curiosity, exceeds $464 million, and only a few bonding corporations will contemplate a bond of something approaching that magnitude,” Trump’s legal professionals wrote. (Trump himself was fined $454 million; the $464 million contains the disgorgement for his grownup sons Don Jr. and Eric.)
An insurance coverage dealer, Gary Giuletti, who testified for Trump through the civil fraud trial, signed an affidavit stating that securing a bond within the full quantity “is a sensible impossibility.”
Potential underwriters are searching for money to again the bond, not properties, in keeping with Trump’s legal professionals.
Trump’s legal professionals have requested the appeals court docket to delay posting the bond till his attraction of the case is over, arguing that the worth of Trump’s properties far exceed the judgment.
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