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By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK CITY (Reuters) – Donald Trump will transfer $5.55 million with a federal court as security while the previous U.S. president appeals a jury decision that he sexually abused and disparaged the author E. Jean Carroll.
Trump is appealing last month’s $5 million decision by a Manhattan federal jury, which stated he disparaged the previous Elle publication writer last October by calling her claim that he raped her in the mid-1990s a scam and a lie.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who supervised the trial, accepted the deposit proposed by Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopina, whose law practice has actually been holding the $5.55 million.
Courts frequently need 111% of a judgment to be transferred throughout appeals.
Carroll would gather her $5 million if Trump’s appeals, consisting of possibly to the Supreme Court, were not successful. The cash reserved plus interest would be gone back to Trump if he dominated.
Tacopina and other legal representatives from his company did not instantly react to ask for extra remark. Carroll’s legal representatives accepted the $5.55 million deposit.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican governmental election, on June 8 requested a brand-new trial, stating the damages were extreme in part due to the fact that the jury discovered that Carroll was sexually mistreated, however not raped as she had actually declared.
Attorneys for Carroll on Thursday called Trump’s ask for a do-over “wonderful thinking.”
Carroll is likewise taking legal action against Trump for $10 million coming from his June 2019 rejection of her rape claim.
She is likewise looking for compensatory damages, after he duplicated his rejections in a CNN city center one day after the jury decision.
The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York City, No. 22-10016.
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