New York AG Letitia James on Friday asked Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron to void disgraced former President Trump’s bond for appeal, writing “movants cannot demonstrate that KSIC’s management meets the requirements of trustworthiness and competence under regulations governing insurance placed through a licensed excess lines broker. Accordingly, this provides a further, independent basis for the Court to deny Movants motion to justify KSIC as the surety. Based on the foregoing, the People respectfully request that the Court deny Movants’ motion to justify the surety, declare the Bond to be without effect, and order that any replacement bond be posted within seven days, along with such other and further relief the Court deems necessary and appropriate.”
On a very, very related note, while this was happening, Assistant DA Matt Colangelo told Judge Juan Merchan “It’s hard to think of something that’s more squarely in the wheelhouse of… impeachment information than a finding of a judge of persistent fraud and illegality in the state of New York over a period of years,” while arguing that the verdict in that trial is admissible to the current criminal one.