Lawyers for Donald Trump told a New York judge that the president-elect's hush money trial was tainted by “serious jury misconduct” and that his guilty verdicts should due to this fact be overturned.

“The jury was not remotely fair and impartial in this case,” attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove told Judge Juan Merchan in a Dec. 3 letter released Tuesday.

Prosecutors within the Manhattan District Attorney's Office responded on the time that the allegations “appear to be inaccurate” and noted that Trump's lawyers were resisting holding a hearing where the claims could possibly be “fully examined.”

Blanche and Bove's seven-page letter is heavily edited. The visible portions of the letter provide few details or evidence to support the allegations of wrongdoing.

The correspondence was released a day after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Merchan rejected Trump's request to overturn his hush-money conviction, citing presidential immunity.

Read the complete letter.

The judge didn’t rule on other arguments Trump's team had made to dismiss the case. Even if Merchan rejects the remaining challenges, it’s unclear when Trump, who takes office on January 20, is perhaps convicted.

In his ruling Monday night, Merchan addressed Blanche's allegations of jury misconduct, saying they “should be thoroughly investigated” – but only as a part of an affidavit.

“This court is prohibited from deciding such claims based on mere hearsay and conjecture,” Merchan wrote.

“Unless a properly filed complaint is filed, this court cannot permit the public filing of unsworn and admittedly contested statements,” the judge wrote.

“This would jeopardize the safety of jurors and violate the agreed upon regulation governing the disclosure of jury information.”

Neither Blanche nor the DA's office immediately responded to CNBC's request for added comment.

In late May, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a scheme leading as much as the 2016 presidential election to stop porn star Stormy Daniels from admitting to an alleged one-night stand with Trump years earlier discuss. Trump, who has denied having sex with Daniels, claimed he was the victim of a political indictment and a biased judge.

In November, Merchan postponed Trump's sentencing date indefinitely as his lawyers sought time to argue that the trial needs to be dismissed in light of his election victory.

Trump tapped last month Blanche and Bove to carry top positions on the U.S. Department of Justice in the following administration.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must make sweeping changes to handle widespread sexual harassment and other misconduct, based on an independent report released Tuesday that raises questions on the long run of banking regulator leadership.

The report, based on a Wall Street Journal investigation, cited accounts from greater than 500 people, including some who alleged that FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg engaged in bullying and verbal abuse.

Overall it’s Report from the law firm Cleary Gottliebpaints an image of an agency where sexual harassment, racial discrimination and bullying were pervasive in any respect levels and tolerated by senior leaders for years, while complaints of misconduct were met with retaliation.

“For far too many employees and for far too long, the FDIC has failed to create a workplace that is safe from sexual harassment, discrimination and other interpersonal misconduct,” the report says, adding that those accused of misconduct often latest roles were assigned.

The Cleary-Gottlieb report found that officials tasked with addressing the issues uncovered within the WSJ reports were themselves the topic of misconduct allegations, underscoring the agency's toxic culture.

The results renewed calls for the ouster of Gruenberg, a Democrat who had been a senior executive on the agency for nearly twenty years.

Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Republican and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, called for Gruenberg's resignation after the report, saying it made clear the agency needed latest leadership.

“The FDIC needs to be fixed. The women and men who work there deserve better,” said Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, in an announcement. “Chairman Grünberg must take responsibility and work immediately to bring about fundamental changes in the agency and its culture.”

Some employees described Gruenberg as “harsh” and “aggressive” and susceptible to losing their temper, the report said. When talking to investigators, Grünberg said he never remembered acting inappropriately. According to the report, some employees reported positive interactions with him and thought of his nature to be more “prosecutive.”

In an announcement to employees, Gruenberg said the report was “sobering” and he vowed to implement its recommendations.

He said he was ultimately liable for every little thing that happened on the agency and apologized for any shortcomings. “I would like to express once again how deeply sorry I am,” he added.

The report recommends appointing latest officials to work on changing the FDIC's culture and hiring an independent third party to support the transition. However, it doesn’t keep in mind whether top politicians should resign.

It also called on the agency to determine an anonymous hotline to report misconduct and abuse, develop a more timely and transparent grievance handling process, and take measures to make sure that victims are protected and supported.

While the report found that Gruenberg's aggressive behavior was not the foundation explanation for the agency's more serious problems, it expressed doubts about his ability to oversee the dramatic transformation needed.

“As the FDIC faces a crisis in its workplace culture, Chairman Gruenberg's reputation raises questions about the credibility of leadership's response to the crisis and the 'moral authority' to lead cultural change,” the report said .

The departure of Gruenberg, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, could jeopardize government efforts to impose tougher financial rules, including the federal government a pending regulatory proposal on bank capital requirements, which has sparked a backlash from Republicans and industry officials.

A White House spokesman didn’t reply to a request for comment.

Should Gruenberg resign or be removed, the agency's bylaws require FDIC Vice Chairman Travis Hill, a Republican, to take over and the agency's board to be made up of an equal variety of Republicans and Democrats.