NY Tosses Stefanik’s Complaint Against Trump Judge

The Daily Beast reports:

A long-shot MAGA political stunt to personally interfere with the judge who ultimately found Donald Trump liable for bank fraud fizzled out quietly months ago, according to a state document marked “confidential” obtained by The Daily Beast. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron and his law clerk, Allison Greenfield, were cleared by a state commission of allegations of “inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance.”

The decision appears to have surprised the Republican congresswoman. Asked on Monday about its dismissal, staff for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) responded by demanding to know on what basis The Daily Beast could assert the complaint went nowhere. After this story was published, Stefanik’s executive director Alex DeGrasse told The Daily Beast in a statement, “New York’s court system is partisan, corrupt, and rigged.”

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