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Trump’s fraud trial judge faces probe after hotshot attorney claims he tried to advise him in $454m case

Source: Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool

The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial is now under investigation after a hotshot New York real estate attorney claimed he gave him unsolicited advice ahead of the hotly-anticipated multi-million-dollar ruling, according to a report.

Attorney Adam Leitman Bailey told that he spoke to three weeks before he made his final judgment in the former president’s case, where he found Mr Trump, his two oldest sons, as well as for falsely inflating his assets.

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