Donald Trump’s desperate search for a smoking gun to tank his bank fraud judgment continues, this time with an attempt to question a lawyer who crossed paths with the New York judge who hit Trump with a half-billion-dollar judgment.
New York Justice Arthur F. Engoron, under pressure to appear as impartial as possible, green-lighted Trump’s request to subpoena a lawyer who publicly admitted he tried to offer “unsolicited advice” to the judge weeks before the order came down.
In May, NBC reported that Adam Leitman Bailey — a real estate lawyer who once had his bar license suspended — randomly approached the judge to let him “know what I think and why … I really want him to get it right.” According to a source who spoke to NOTUS, Bailey hurriedly approached the judge as Engoron was making his way through the courthouse and muttered something about the statutes at issue in the case.