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A federal judge has decided the disgraced former CEO of the cryptocurency exchange should be sent to jail as he awaits trial on fraud charges.

New York Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump's claim had no merit and that Carroll's statements repeating the claim that Trump had raped her were "substantially true" given a jury's verdict.

The former US president is facing two criminal proceedings, as well as a civil case brought by writer E Jean Carroll.

A federal judge in New York on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll, who was ultimately awarded $5 million in damages.

Former president was found liable for sexual assault and defamation at trial

The move reverses course on one of the Justice Department's most controversial decisions during the early stretch of the Biden administration.

Ruling comes days after the former president countersued Ms Carroll for defamation

From Judge Lewis Kaplan's opinion today in Carroll v. Trump (S.D.N.Y.): This is a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against President Donald Trump, as he then was, for statements Mr. Trump made in June 2019 shortly after Ms. Carroll publicly accused him of sexual assault. In those…

NEW YORK — Fallen FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried had his mammoth Manhattan fraud case split in two Thursday, with a judge agreeing to let prosecutors try him in separate trials.