Donald Trump is fighting criminal indictments in New York and Florida as he seeks to overturn a civil jury verdict for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.
In a June 8 court filing, Trump's lawyer Joseph Tacopina argued that the $2 million jurors awarded the 79-year-old Carroll for Trump's sexual abuse of her was "grossly excessive" under case law. Tacopina said that Carroll's damages for that claim should be "in the low six-figure range" at best.
In a letter Friday to Kaplan, Tacopina wrote that his law firm is currently holding $5.6 million of Trump's money in a trust account, and will deposit those funds into a court-controlled account if the judge agrees with the stipulation.Kaplan has scheduled a trial to begin on Jan. 15 for another lawsuit Carroll filed against Trump. In that case, Carroll is alleging Trump defamed her with comments he made about her while president after she first went public with her rape claims.
Trump was criminally indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury in Miami on charges related to his retention of hundreds of classified documents at his Florida residence after he left the White House in January 2021. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.
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