President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyer L. Lin Wood must pay $2 million to a Georgia federal court registry to secure a bond after he was found liable for defaming his former law firm colleagues in connection with a fraud and breach of contract suit they brought against him.
Wood must pay that amount because he had “objectively demonstrated his financial inability” to post a full cash supersedeas bond for a $4.5 million defamation jury verdict issued against him in August, but could pay the lesser amount, said Judge Michael L. Brown of the US District Court for the Northern District of ...
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