Lawyers for the Trump Organization’s finance chief asked a judge for more time to prepare their defense, saying that they were reviewing millions of pages of documents and that prosecutors may file charges against other people.

“We have strong reasons to believe there could be other indictments coming,” Bryan Skarlatos, a lawyer for Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, told New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Monday. “We are shooting at a moving target.”

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