Trump Lawyers Argue Attorney General Cannot Turn Monitor Into Special Counsel

Published on April 9, 2024

Lawyers for President Donald Trump pushed back on New York Attorney General Letitia James’s late request for an expanded monitorship as final judgment has already been entered in the civil fraud case against the former president and his Trump Organization. In an April 8 letter to the court, they raised what they described as several troubling aspects of the attorney general’s request. “The NYAG’s astonishing request is an evident play to transform the monitor into her own special counsel,” the letter reads. “[The proposal] bears no hallmark of a judicial proceeding. “Rather, it is a politicized investigatory proceeding shrouded in secrecy to concoct a speculative claim that defendants engaged in some malfeasance during a discovery process managed by the NYAG and that concluded to the NYAG’s purported satisfaction last summer.”...

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