NEW YORK — A judge on Friday denied the Trump Organization’s motion to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal tax fraud case against Donald Trump’s family real estate business and its long-serving chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
Among a flurry of motions shot down by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan was one arguing that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James had targeted Trump’s company and its top executives “on the basis of political animus.”
The ruling marks the third legal blow Trump has faced this week. On Monday, federal agents executed a search warrant on his private Mar-a-Lago home in Florida to recover classified documents removed from the White House.
