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A $370 Million dollar shoe is about to kick the immorality king, right where it hurts him most.
In his over-inflated wallet.
- Judge Arthur Engoron said he aims to have a final decision by the end of the month.
- State Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $370 million in fines and to bar Trump from the New York real estate industry.
nbcnews.com — Jan 11, 2024
The attorney general’s office argued in its closing presentation that Trump “acted with intent” to fraudulently inflate the value of his assets in his financial statements.
“The buck stopped with him,” said Andrew Amer, a lawyer for the attorney general’s office, saying that Trump was responsible for the conduct Trump Org. executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney participated in to inflate his assets.
“Mr. Trump was certainly in the loop to review and approve the statements,” Amer said. “The court should infer that he acted with intent to defraud based on his extensive knowledge about these assets.”
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[Judge] Engoron has already found Trump and his co-defendants were liable for persistent and repeated fraud, and the trial was held to consider the extent of money owed as well as six additional claims, including conspiracy, issuing false financial statements, falsifying business records, and insurance fraud.
cnn.com — Jan 11, 2024
January 11, 2024
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement in advance of closing arguments in her office’s civil fraud trial against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization for years of financial fraud:
“Before this trial began, the Court ruled in our favor and found that Donald Trump engaged in years of significant financial fraud and unjustly enriched himself and his family. Throughout this trial, we revealed the full scale and scope of that fraud. I am proud of the case we presented, and I am confident that the facts and the rule of law are on our side.”
ag.ny.gov, Press Release — Jan 11, 2024
New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke to reporters after closing arguments in the civil fraud trial against former President Trump and his company concluded. NBC Video clip
"This case has never been about politics, personal vendetta, or about name calling. This case is about the facts and the law, and Mr. Donald Trump violated the law," [N.Y. Attorney General Letitia] James said.
James thanked her team, the judge, and Trump's lawyers before repeating her confidence that "justice will be done" in the case.
"No matter how powerful you are, no matter how rich you are, no one is above the law," she said.
abcnews.go.com — Jan 11, 2024
It is amazing to me, how the AG simply states, in that video clip: “The personal attacks really don’t bother me.”
This is what “demanding accountability” is about, people. Standing up to a felonious crook and career conman, no matter how much he bullies and badgers. No matter how much he riles up and enrages his followers to attack the institutions of Democracy, and those daring hold him to account.
If Trump had the facts on his side, he would present them. But he does not have them.
All he has is the last refuge of a Bully: rage, threats and intimidation.
Most people fold in the face of such threats — See the vast majority of the GOP for a case study in such simpering cowardice.
And see what these Trump-inflamed threats boil down to in real life, for those upholding Democracy and the Rule of Law:
Special counsel Jack Smith was targeted with a swatting call at his Maryland home on Christmas Day, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
abcnews.go.com — Jan 9, 2024
While the fraud trial has continued at New York Supreme Court, court staff have received a huge number of threatening messages from Trump supporters. [...]
He highlighted a sworn statement by Charles Hollon, of New York's Judicial Threats Assessment Unit, "which documents the hundreds of threatening, harassing, and antisemitic messages that Supreme Court and its staff have received as an evident result of the personal attacks that triggered the [gag] orders.
Hollon "attested that such messages reflect an ongoing security risk for the judge, his staff and his family."
www.newsweek.com — Dec 11, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ‘s New York civil fraud trial is back in session Thursday for closing arguments hours after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge.
The early morning police response to the Long Island home of Judge Arthur Engoron didn’t delay the trial.
www.pbs.org — Jan 11, 2024
Can’t imagine such bomb threats, swats, doxing, and the countless vile messages will endear the Officials upholding justice, to show pity on their instigator: the grand tear-it-all-up insurrectionist himself, Mr. Donald Trump, who has violated the law, and every political, social, and civil norm, he has ever encountered.
Here’s to hoping that Judge Arthur Engoron throws the book at the felonious fraud, and makes him pay back every penny he illegally stole. Plus penalties, and business license revocation.
That would be only fair. Given the defendant’s on-going defiance and uncivil behavior.
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There IS a social cost to just letting Trump “get away with it”
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President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.
abcnews.go.com — May 30, 2020
54 cases and counting … when and where will it end?
Here’s to hoping Justice prevails. And ends this campaign of intimidation, once and for all.
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