U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein shot down a request from Trump’s lawyers to move the case out of state court, where Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to a porn star. Trump sought last week to transfer the case to federal court, where he hoped to overturn the guilty verdict.

Donald Trump lost his final bid to transfer his hush money criminal case from New York state court to federal court, a move that could have delayed his September 18 sentencing. The judge ruled that Trump's payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels were personal,