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Judge Arthur Engoron — who is overseeing proceedings in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York — may be considering a harsher-than-expected penalty for Trump as he prepares to issue a final ruling in the bench trial. The Daily Beast recently reported that Engoron was alarmed by a New York Times article from earlier this month about Allen Weisselberg, who was the former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, planning to plead guilty to perjury for allegedly lying on the stand. “As the presiding magistrate, the trier of fact, and the judge of credibility, I of…

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