Trump faces NYC court hearing in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg case

Former President Trump is expected in a New York City courtroom today for a hearing related to the hush money payment case to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The hearing will begin at 10 am and will last for several hours.

Trump is also up against a Monday deadline to pay the $454 million bond imposed in his civil fraud lawsuit. New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has accused him of inflating his net worth, gave him a 30-day grace period which ends today. If he is unable to satisfy the judgment, James has threatened to begin seizing Trump's property and assets.

Trump's criminal trial was originally scheduled to begin today with jury selection. However, earlier this month, Judge Juan Merchan delayed it until mid-April to give the former president and his lawyers more time to study 15,000 records of potential evidence shared by the Justice Department from a previous federal investigation. Had given.

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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said much of the newly created material is unrelated to the state's case against Trump. Federal prosecutors have already prepared more than 100,000 pages of records for review. However, Fox News Digital has learned that at least 74,000 pages of records were initially sent only to Bragg's office, not Trump's legal team.

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Trump's lawyers were seeking a 90-day delay or dismissal of the charges against him, arguing there were violations in the "discovery process" whereby both sides exchange evidence. Defense lawyers said the 30-day delay was "inadequate".

Trump's lawyers have said the material from the federal investigation is vital to his defense in the state case being brought by Bragg.

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Bragg convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded innocent to all charges.

Bragg alleged that Trump "repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that concealed damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election."

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The charges relate to hush payments allegedly made during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In 2019, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York chose not to charge Trump related to payments he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

The Federal Election Commission also suspended its investigation into the matter in 2021.