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More from NPR about Juan Merchan:
Merchan oversaw a well-known criminal tax fraud prosecution against Trump’s business last year, which ended with a guilty judgment from a Manhattan jury. In the instance, none other than Trump was a defendant.
Two of Trump’s commercial organizations were forced to pay the maximum penalty of $1.61 million after being found guilty on 17 charges of tax evasion and fabricating company documents.
Merchan instructed lawyers to concentrate on the particular allegations during the hearings, dismissing the Trump Organization’s legal team’s argument that the case was a politically motivated prosecution of the former president, according to CBS News.
“I will not allow you in any way to bring up a selective prosecution claim, or claim this is some sort of novel prosecution,” Merchan said.
Merchan, who has been a longtime Democrat, was revealed via her LinkedIn account to have a daughter who also identifies as a Democrat and who previously worked on Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, according to The Gateway Pundit.
The information was assembled from a picture of Judge Merchan that the Geneseo Alumni Office sent with a commentary. “One of the panelists was Hon. Juan Merchan, Court of Claims Judge sitting as an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court — Criminal Term, New York County, and parent of Loren Merchan ’11.”
When Kamala Harris withdrew from the presidential run in December 2019, she ceased to work for the People.
Loren held the position of Vice President of Authentic Campaigns, a digital business that increases awareness for causes, when she worked on the Kamala Harris campaign. “hundreds of millions of dollars for progressive campaigns” utilizing persuasive software on the internet.
Thanks to Karli Bonne and Newsmax.
