Former President Donald Trump on April 27 appealed an order that found him in contempt of a subpoena and imposed on him a $10,000 per day fine.
Trump’s lawyers filed the appeal in New York Supreme Court days after Judge Arthur Engoron issued the finding.
They say that they will raise to the appellate division of the court four issues, including whether the imposition of the fine “serves any purpose as either a compensatory or coercive remedy.”
At issue is a subpoena that New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, issued in late 2021 against Trump and several of his children in her investigation of the Trump Organization, a family business.
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