A New York City real estate attorney claimed he had a conversation with and gave advice to the judge who hit Donald Trump with a $455 million judgment in the recently completed fraud trial, sparking an investigation by a state commission on judicial conduct, NBC New York reported.

Attorney Adam Leitman Bailey told NBC New York that he spoke with Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron three weeks before the judgment against Trump, telling the outlet he wanted Engoron “to get it right.”

“I actually had the ability to speak to him three weeks ago,” Bailey told NBC New York in an on-camera interview on Feb. 16, the day of Engoron’s decision. “I saw him in the corner [at the courthouse] … I walked over and we started talking. … I wanted him to know what I think and why … I really want him to get it right.”

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