"They're Still Playing Games": Ex-Prosecutor Warns Trump May Face Asset Seizure Over Invalid Bond
April 10, 2024
In “"They're Still Playing Games": Ex-Prosecutor Warns Trump May Face Asset Seizure Over Invalid Bond” (Salon, April 10, 2024), Pollock Cohen managing partner Adam Pollock discusses the April 4, 2024 filing, where New York Attorney General Letitia James, expressed her concerns with the $175 million bond (bringing the $460 million judgment in the civil fraud case against former President Trump to a halt pending his appeal), writing that she "takes exception to the sufficiency of the surety" given to Trump and the other defendants.
Adam, former assistant New York Attorney General, discusses that in the April 22, 2024 hearing to discuss the bond and its potential issues that,
“Knight Specialty is "going to have to try to argue that the bond is valid. This is going to be very hard for them because it's not," noting that Trump's bond situation is "unprecedented."
"This is a trial about Trump's financial chicanery, and after he found Trump liable for persistent fraud in his finances, amazingly, they're still playing games with the bond that they filed in the appeal of that," he added, predicting that presiding Judge Arthur Engoron is "going to have very little patience here."
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