A federal judge suggested Tuesday he is likely to rule against Donald Trump’s effort to have the criminal case accusing him of falsifying business records moved from state court to federal court.
on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the payment to Daniels. Prosecutors said Trump purposely concealed the nature of reimbursement payments to Cohen by claiming they were routine legal fees.Trump pleaded not guilty on April 4 at a historic arraignment in Lower Manhattan, a proceeding that marked the first time an ex-president in the U.S. had been charged with a crime.
Trump has since been indicted in federal court in Florida by special counsel Jack Smith on 37 counts related to his alleged willful retention of classified documents that contained sensitive national security information. The government records were found at his Mar-a-Lago private club and residence in Palm Beach during an FBI search in August 2022.
In both criminal matters, Trump has pleaded not guilty and has vowed to defend himself while continuing to campaign for the presidency in 2024. In the New York case, Trump’s legal team has already begun filing legal challenges like the one heard in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday. In early May, the lawyers filed theTrump’s attorneys say that federal court is the proper venue to hear the case brought by Bragg in part because some of the reimbursement payments to Cohen were disbursed while Trump was president.
Trump’s case in New York involves low-level felonies that do not carry mandatory prison sentences upon conviction, but he could face up to four years in prison. In the special counsel classified records case in Florida, Trump faces much more serious consequences if convicted. On the top counts, he faces
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