Former President Donald Trump can continue operating his New York-based businesses for now, an appeals court has ruled, granting a stay on a penalty ordered by the judge overseeing Trump’s civil trial in state court.
New York state Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the trial, ordered the suspension of business licenses belonging to the former president, his children and The Trump Organization on the eve of the trial, a move some called a corporate death penalty.
But Justice Peter Moulton of the 1st Division of the New York Appellate Court wrote in a Friday order that The Trump Organization, as well Trump, his two…