Trump rebuffed by judge in New York fraud lawsuit, trial date set - Reuters

NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A New York justice has scheduled an October 2023 proceedings for erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump, 3 of his big children and the Trump Organization successful a suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James accusing them of fraudulently overvaluing the existent property company's assets and Trump's nett worth.

Justice Arthur Engoron of the authorities Supreme Court successful Manhattan acceptable the proceedings day during a contentious proceeding connected Tuesday pursuing motions by the Trumps the nighttime earlier to person the civilian suit dismissed.

"I ruled connected each these issues. It seems to maine the facts are the same. The instrumentality is the same. Parties are the same," Engoron told Alina Habba, Trump's lawyer. "You can't support making the aforesaid statement aft you've already lost."

Habba had accused the justice of bias. Trump, a Republican, has accused James, a Democrat, of suing him due to the fact that she dislikes him and his politics.

In her suit filed connected Sept. 21, James accused Trump, his company, his children Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka and others of inflating Trump's assets by billions of dollars successful a decennary of lies to banks and insurers. James called the fraud "staggering."

The ailment seeks $250 cardinal successful damages. It besides seeks to halt the Trumps from moving businesses successful the authorities and prohibition Trump and his institution from acquiring New York existent property for 5 years.

Engoron is expected to regularisation connected the motions to disregard by aboriginal January. Trump is already appealing Engoron's bid requiring an autarkic watchdog to show his company.

The trial, scheduled for Oct. 2, 2023, and different ineligible issues could complicate Trump's campaign, announced past week, for the presidency successful 2024.

The Trump Organization is present connected proceedings successful different Manhattan courtroom connected transgression taxation fraud charges.

In addition, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland past week named a peculiar counsel to oversee 2 transgression investigations, 1 related to the FBI's seizure of authorities documents from Trump's Florida location and the different examining Trump's relation successful efforts to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike election.

Trump besides faces a transgression probe successful Georgia into whether helium interfered with the 2020 predetermination results successful that state.

He has called these cases and investigations politically motivated, and has labeled Engoron a "puppet judge" for James.

In seeking to disregard the lawsuit filed by James, Trump maintained that the lawyer wide lacked authorization to prosecute a suit designed to "get" him erstwhile neither the nationalist nor the marketplace was harmed.

"Who stands to summation from this highly-politicized farse [sic], speech from the politically-compromised Attorney General of the State of New York?" Trump's filing said.

Other defendants besides urged dismissals.

Lawyers for Trump's sons called the suit a "textbook illustration of throwing everything astatine the partition to spot what sticks." Ivanka Trump's lawyers said determination were nary allegations that she lied to oregon defrauded anyone.

The Trump Organization's erstwhile longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg and its Controller Jeffrey McConney besides sought dismissals of claims against them. Both testified arsenic prosecution witnesses successful the Manhattan transgression proceedings successful which prosecutors accused the institution of engaging successful taxation fraud spanning 15 years.

Reporting by Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel successful New York; Editing by Will Dunham

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