With the leading members of his past legal team having joined the Trump administration Justice Department, President Donald Trump has restocked lawyers to lead the appeal of the “legal expense” conviction in New York state.
Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn his conviction last May on 34 counts of falsifying business records by calling payments to former attorney Michael Cohen a “legal expense.”
Todd Blanche and Emil Bove represented Trump during last spring’s trial, and the appeal in New York was filed Wednesday as Trump is now in the White House and Blanche faces confirmation as deputy attorney general. Bove is acting deputy attorney general before Blanche’s confirmation and will be DOJ’s No. 3 once he is in place.
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