In a ruling Tuesday, Justice Arthur Engoron denied a request from the former president's lawyers that could have pushed the trial into next year.
against the former president and his company refused a request that would have delayed his October trial date.
"This case is complex, but it's not complicated," Engoron said of the request by Trump, his oldest children and his company to have more time to work on their defense against the fraud allegations that have been brought by the New York attorney general's office.
In court Tuesday, Trump lawyer Chris Kise proposed a more modest delay, which would have resulted in the trial being pushed back to Oct. 23, but the judge refused.James filed heragainst Trump, his children Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka and the family company in September, alleging that they had for years been inflating their worth in financial statements to banks and insurers to the tune of billions of dollars, allowing them to get loans and deals they were not entitled to.
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