Trump Asks Appeals Court to Bar New York Probe of His Assets
- Probe is ‘harassing and overreaching,’ lawyer tells court
- Judge threw out Trump’s suit for failing to prove animus
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Donald Trump’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court to block New York’s investigation into potentially fraudulent asset valuations at his sprawling real-estate company, extending his legal battle over the three-year-old probe.
The investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James is “harassing and overreaching” and tainted by the Democrat’s political animus toward the former president, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba said in a brief Tuesday with the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.