Juan Merchán, who emigrated from Colombia to New York when he was six years old, previously presided over the tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization, owned by the former president; He oversaw a case against his former adviser Steve Bannon and sentenced Allen Weisselberg, one of the businessman’s most loyal squires, to prison.
Judge Juan Merchanassigned to the case against the former president donald trump in New York for falsifying commercial documents, as well as his family have received more than a dozen threats through calls and emails, local media report.
Most of the threats and defamatory calls appear to have come from out of state and are being investigated.occurred in a 24-hour period since Merchán read the 34 charges filed by the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office against Trump last Tuesday, of which the former president pleaded not guilty.
After knowing that Merchán would be the judge who would read him the charges of the Prosecutor’s Office, Trump wrote on his Truth social network that the magistrate hated him.
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Merchán, who emigrated from Colombia to New York when he was six years old, previously presided over the tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization, owned by the former president; he oversaw a case against his former adviser Steve Bannon and sentenced Allen Weisselberg, one of the businessman’s most loyal squires, to prison.
Prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who has led the investigation against the former Republican president, and other staff in his office have continued to receive threats, Therefore, the Police have increased security for these, the media also point out.
According to the indictment, the former president orchestrated a scheme to pay the silence of three people who could harm his campaign for the Presidency in 2016, including the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
At a press conference in Miami, after hearing the charges against him, Trump claimed that “the lunatics, maniacs and perverts of the radical left” accused and arrested him “for no reason.”
With information from EFE.
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