E. Jean Carroll lawyer scoffs at Trump's effort to dodge $83.3M ruling in new court filing
March 04, 2024
E. Jean Carroll's lawyer Monday slapped back after former President Donald Trump demanded a stay on the $83.3 million a federal court order him to pay the woman he was found liable for defaming, court records show.
Roberta Kaplan filed a letter to Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan challenging Trump's motion on a stay of execution in no uncertain terms.
"He (incorrectly) claims that we mischaracterized Second Circuit law," Roberta Kaplan writes.
The case in question involved a Long Island strip search case in Nassau County in which the defendant was allowed to stay the ruling because they proved they could come up with the cash, the attorney writes.
She explains the problem she found with Trump's interpretation.
"The requesting party must offer some 'alternative means,'" writes Kaplan, "the whole point of which is to make sure the appellee will be made whole in the event she succeeds on appeal."
Kaplan then chastises Trump — also found liable for more than $450 million in fraud — for providing no proof that he'll have the damages he was ordered to pay Carroll.
"In Nassau, those alternative means consisted of a dedicated and readily collectible governmental appropriation," Kaplan writes. "Here, in stark contrast, Trump offers no alternative means other than his own unsubstantiated say so that he will have $83.3 million available when Carroll prevails on appeal."