Judge Merchan isn't happy that Donald Trump is throwing around accusations that prosecutors 'coerced' Allen Weisselberg into a guilty plea.

Those 'serious allegations' have 'no apparent basis in fact,' he said.

Delay request denied. Trial will start Monday.

In Merchan's new order denying another Trump bid to delay his imminent trial--bc of media attn--the judge cited his 'continuing and growing alarm over counsel's practice of making serious allegations and representations that have no apparent basis in fact'
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Pitching my editor every new filing in Trump’s hush-money case

NJ Sen. Bob Menendez opposes his wife Nadine's request for an adjournment of their federal bribery trial scheduled to begin May 6.
'We don’t need it and we don’t want it,' his lawyer tells Judge Sidney Stein. 'We are ready…Every day of delay is prejudicial to him.'

Trump can technically keep filing these eleventh-hour requests to delay his criminal trial.

Perhaps he will in hopes of the dice landing on a friendlier appellate judge -- like David Friedman, the judge who paused his gag order in the civil fraud trial.

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Former Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail for perjury, pursuant to his plea agreement. @uebey courthousenews.com/allen-weisselb…