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Trump Lawyers in NY Fraud Case Ordered Not to Talk About Court Staff

Judge in NY fraud case cites harassing calls, emails to office
Trump already fined $15,000 for earlier gag order violations

Donald Trump.
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By Patricia Hurtado and Erik Larson

November 3, 2023 at 7:08 PM UTC

Updated on

November 4, 2023 at 5:38 PM UTC

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The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial ordered the former president’s lawyers to stop referring to his law clerk and other staffers, citing a flood of threatening and harassing emails and voice mails to his chambers in recent weeks.

Judge Arthur Engoron on Friday expanded an earlier gag order against Trump to include lawyers representing the former president and his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, after the attorneys made “repeated inappropriate remarks” about the clerk in open court.