A New York judge will allow an independent monitor to oversee Donald Trump’s business interests and has imposed restrictions on the Trump Organization’s assets pending a trial over allegations of widespread fraud.
“Given [the] defendants’ demonstrated propensity to engage in persistent fraud, failure to grant such an injunction could result in extreme prejudice to the people of New York,” Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in an order handed down in a New York state court in Manhattan on Thursday.
The New York attorney-general’s office, which brought a wide-ranging case against the Trump Organization and members of the Trump family in September, had requested the installation of a monitor, telling the court earlier that the Trump companies were attempting to move money out of the state’s jurisdiction.