Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5M in damages from Trump verdict
The order includes post-judgment interest after the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal, raising the total payout to about $5.8 million.
- On Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of more than $5 million to Jean Carroll, rejecting President Donald Trump's attempt to delay paying the columnist after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed her.
- Trump's attorneys had asked the court to withhold funds until the Supreme Court rules on his motion for reconsideration, arguing that distributing the money would cause "irreparable harm" to the president if the judgment were later overturned.
- Following the Supreme Court's denial of Trump's appeal last week, Carroll's lawyers requested the disbursement; Kaplan's order includes interest accumulated since the jury verdict three years ago.
- A spokesperson for Trump's legal team characterized the case as a "Democrat-funded" effort and part of ongoing "Witch Hunts," stating that "The American People" continue to support the president as he focuses on "Make America Great Again."
- Addressing one of two lawsuits brought against Trump, this ruling precedes his plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a separate jury award of $83 million to Carroll for defamation regarding statements made in 2022.
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Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M in Trump sex abuse and defamation case
The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed to stop the payment.
Trump Ordered To Pay Up $5M Settlement To E. Jean Carroll
Source: Now that President Donald Trump has pretty much exhausted every legal avenue his team of attorneys could think of to get him out of the civil judgment against him for the sexual assault of magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, a judge has ruled that it’s time for the president to pay up, regarding the $5 million he owes her for assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. According to the New York Times, Judge Lewis A. Kapl…
A federal judge ordered Wednesday that the writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald Trump of having sexually assaulted him and then defamed him, receive the $5 million that the U.S. president was sentenced to pay him civilian.
Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8 million in Trump sex abuse and defamation case; Trump appeals
The jury found Trump attacked Carroll in 1996 in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store, and defamed her after she described it publicly in a 2019 memoir, during his first term as president. The post Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8 million in Trump sex abuse and defamation case; Trump appeals appeared first on Boston.com.
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