The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial has rejected ethics claims regarding donations to President Biden and other Democrats, a New York state court spokesperson confirmed Friday.
Judge Juan Melchan was acquitted last July by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which said the complaint could become an issue if the judge faces future allegations of misconduct. I warned you that there is.
“Judge Marchan said the charges, which are more than a year old, were dismissed in July with a caveat,” Al Baker, a spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration, told the Post.
The “warning” allows the commission to take the charges into account if Mr Marchand is accused of misconduct again.
It is unclear who filed the confidential complaint against Machan.
According to Federal Election Commission records, the veteran judge donated $15 earmarked for the Biden for President campaign on July 26, 2020, and the next day donated it to the Progressive Vote Project. They each donated $10 to Stop Republicans.
The donation was made through ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s preferred online fundraising platform.
of progressive turnout project According to the group’s website, its mission is to “get Democrats to vote.”
quit the republican party is a subsidiary of the Progressive Turnout Project, which describes itself as a “grassroots-funded effort dedicated to resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”
Political contributions by judges are a violation of state Judicial Conduct Commission rules, but the commission found in its most recent annual report that dozens of judges in the state have made prohibited donations in the past few years. He points out that he has done so. According to Reutersfirst reported the dismissal of Machan’s charges.
The commission did not respond to requests for comment from the Post, but its proceedings are generally confidential unless it takes disciplinary action against a judge.
Mr. Trump, 77, has lashed out at Mr. Marchand since he was indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, deriding him as a “Trump-hating judge.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is pursuing the judge’s daughter Lauren Marchand’s own involvement in Democratic politics through her work as head of the consulting firm Authentic Campaigns.
President Trump is accused of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels. This was allegedly paid to keep her from speaking about her alleged sexual encounters with the former president in the run-up to the 2016 election.
He pleaded not guilty.
