A day after a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages for alleged defamation by Donald Trump, New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino learned from a source that the judge in the case, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, was once the mentor of Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan (no relation).
“It was never disclosed. It’s insane and so incestuous,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba told the Post.