WP: NY AG sues Trump family over “persistent illegal conduct” at Trump Foundation

[Ball Security]

This has been totally uncool and totally unfair! Witch hunt!

[Dan T.]

 

[Captain Wiggles]

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Donald Trump: I was so busy in the White House with China, Russia, and keeping the country...  

 

NY attorney: You were not the President in 2021.

 

And yet the American electorate believes his mental acuity is sharper than Bidens. 🤣

[The Evil Genius]

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

24 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

 

 

His lawyers after hearing that, if they had an ounce of intelligence:

 

[China]

2 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

His lawyers after hearing that, if they had an ounce of intelligence:

 

 

Presuming they got paid upfront, they're more likely doing this:

 

[China]

I found where Trump got his legal strategy for today:

 

 

[FootballZombie]

And that is why you don't let morons take the stand unless you are forced.

 

My goodness.

[Bang]

13 hours ago, China said:

 

Presuming they got paid upfront,

Well, now we've just gone straight off into Fantasyland.

 

They probably accepted it in TrumpBux, or his awesome second set of NFTs.

 

~Bang

[China]

This Ivanka Trump Email Could Undo Her Family’s Entire Defense

 

Ivanka Trump was forced Wednesday, during her family’s New York business fraud trial, to explain an email exchange that could undo their entire defense.

 

Donald Trump’s oldest daughter took the stand to testify about the Trump Organization’s business practices. Ivanka Trump was presented with an email conversation she had with one of the company’s lawyers.

 

The lawyer, Jason Greenblatt, was worried about a 2012 deal with Deutsche Bank for the purchase of the Doral golf club in Miami, which required Donald Trump to maintain a minimum net worth of $3 billion. This requirement “would seem to me to be a problem?” he asked Ivanka.

 

Ivanka replied this was something they “have known from day one. We wanted to get a great rate and the only way to get the proceeds/term and principle where we want them is to guarantee the deal.”

 

Another email related to the Doral deal makes clear that her father’s financials were a big part of securing the purchase. “My father will also send you his most recent financial statement by hard mail,” she wrote in an email with the subject line “Doral.”

 

This exchange speaks directly to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s main accusation that Trump and his allies fraudulently inflated the value of their real estate assets to get more favorable terms on bank loans. Greenblatt was concerned that Trump would struggle to prove and maintain a net worth of at least $3 billion. But Ivanka didn’t seem worried.

 

In the Doral deal, Ivanka eventually got the requirement for Trump’s net worth lowered to $2.5 billion, but that’s still far higher than what James estimates Trump’s net worth actually was at the time of the purchase in 2012.

 

Trump himself effectively admitted Monday that the organization’s financial statements were made with an eye to encourage favorable loans. The New York attorney general’s office revealed that Trump had signed financial documents intended to look good for banks.

 

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[China]

Elise Stefanik files ethics complaint against Trump fraud trial judge

 

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed a judicial ethics complaint Friday against the New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s civil fraud trial, claiming the judge has shown “inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance” toward the former president and calling on him to resign.

 

Judge Arthur Engoron has displayed a “clear judicial bias” against Trump and broken “several rules” in the state’s judicial conduct code, Stefanik wrote in a letter to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

 

“This judge’s bizarre behavior has no place in our judicial system, where Judge Engoron is not honoring the defendant’s rights to due process and a fair trial,” Stefanik wrote, asserting that those “serious concerns” are amplified by Trump’s status as the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.

 

The letter trumpets many arguments Trump’s legal team has made throughout the case, including that there were “no victims” of the former president’s business dealings and that Engoron unfairly prejudged the case.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[LadySkinsFan]

And when they testify this week, it'll be more of the same as last week. 

 

No new "news".

[China]

Trump’s Idiot Lawyers Just Shared Faulty Evidence in Fraud Trial

 

Donald Trump’s lawyers shared faulty evidence on Monday during his business fraud trial in New York, accidentally adding further fuel to the allegations against him.

 

The New York attorney general has accused Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization, and other company executives of fraudulently inflating the value of various real estate assets to get more favorable terms on bank loans. When Don Jr. took the stand Monday, Trump’s lawyers appeared to demonstrate exactly how the family overrepresented their assets.

 

Trump’s lawyers displayed a screenshot of a property tax document for 40 Wall Street, now called the Trump Building. The slide described the property as a “72 story landmark building in the Financial District, directly across from the New York Stock Exchange.”

 

The Trump Building is only 63 stories, according to filings from New York City and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is actually around the corner from the Stock Exchange. The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, Alan Garten, explained to Forbes a month ago that 40 Wall Street has 63 floors of commercial space, but “when you add the space from 63 to the cupola, the building totals 72 floors.”

 

Trump’s lawyers also showed a slide claiming the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is 64 stories. But an architectural drawing shows it likely has fewer levels because the floor numbers jump from eight to 16.

 

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[China]

"This is an actual incitement": Legal experts alarmed after Trump pushes "citizen's arrest"

 

ormer President Donald Trump on Tuesday reposted a Truth Social post calling for a "citizen's arrest" of New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing his fraud trial. Trump shared a post by a user describing his "fantasy": "I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LITITIA JAMES AND JUDGE ENGORON PLACED UNDER CITIZENS ARREST FOR BLATANT ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND HARASSMENT."

 

Legal experts expressed alarm over the post. "Sometimes he says incendiary things that his followers act on, as in 'will be wild.' This is an actual incitement to break the law and it greatly endangers the judge and AG," tweeted former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman. George Washington University Law Prof. Jonathan Turley, who frequently defends Trump in the media, also warned: "Just in case anyone is taking such a statement as more than a fantasy, there is no basis for a citizen’s arrest and such an effort to physically hold either the judge or the attorney general would most certainly constitute a criminal act."

 

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Unfortunately, I think it will take a judge, prosecutor, or witness being physically harmed before someone has the balls to do anything to shut up and lock up the orange menace.

[China]

Trump mistrial request denied in $250 million New York fraud case

 

A New York judge on Friday denied a request by former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants for a mistrial in the $250 million civil business fraud case against them.

 

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said the arguments for a mistrial were “utterly without merit” as he declined to sign the defendants’ bid for a motion to throw out the case.

 

The defense lawyers claimed that Engoron and his principal law clerk have “tainted these proceedings” and that “only the grant of a mistrial can salvage what is left of the rule of law.”

 

But Engoron in Friday’s ruling disputed each allegation of bias, and made clear that he intends to preside over the case until its conclusion.

 

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[Larry]

Working on his career, claiming what a victim he was. 

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

[EmirOfShmo]

 

Donald Trump has worst day yet in NY civil fraud trial as underling's scribbled note ties him to conspiracy

 

Donald Trump had his worst day yet in his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York on Tuesday at the hands of his own key witness, a former Trump Organization executive who linked the former president directly to the fuzzy math at the center of the case.

The witness was Jeffrey McConney, who was the comptroller and spreadsheet czar at the Trump Org. McConney had been called to the witness stand by the defense, but on cross-examination by lawyers for the state attorney general's office Tuesday, he linked Trump firmly to the conspiracy and fraud counts that have yet to be decided in the non-jury trial.

McConney was handed People's Exhibit 3054, a draft of Trump's net-worth statement for 2014. He was asked to look at a note scribbled in thin blue ink on the draft's first page, "DJT TO GET FINAL REVIEW," which he said he'd written.

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Starting with the damage to McConney himself, his blue-ink notations directly contradict his testimony from the prior day.

The spreadsheet czar had testified on direct examination Monday that he would review each year's draft net-worth statement with Weisselberg, who would then give the approved draft to the outside accounting firm, Mazars USA, which would print the final statement.

This chain of command — McConney to Weisselberg to Mazars — leaves out one very important link, as the state's lawyer, Amer, pointed out on cross on Tuesday.

"I believe there was a step in between that involved Donald Trump prior to 2017?" Amer said to McConney, who appeared uncomfortable on the stand as he said Trump indeed did the ultimate signing off.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-worst-day-yet-223034300.html

Edited November 22, 2023 by EmirOfShmo

[LadySkinsFan]

As someone who worked on proposals, they didn't go out until someone had final review, a named someone. DJT is that named someone here and you can bet it didn't go out unless he reviewed and approved it. 

 

Case closed.

[China]

Trump’s Lawyers Double Down on Attacks on New York Judge’s ‘Partisan’ Clerk in Bid to Spike Gag Order

 

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers renewed their attacks on Monday on the judge presiding over his civil fraud trial and his principal law clerk, days after revelations that both have been besieged with "hundreds" of threats.

 

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron gagged Trump and his attorneys from making statements about his staff, in a pair of orders temporarily suspended by an intermediate appellate court.

 

On Monday, Trump's attorney Clifford Robert asked New York's Appellate Division, First Department to permanently overturn the gag orders — which bar attacks on Engoron's staff, but not the judge himself.

 

Engoron justified the orders to protect the safety of his staff, noting that "hundreds of harassing and threatening phone calls, voicemails, emails, letters and packages" have poured into chambers since trial began.

 

In a sworn affirmation, a court security officer disclosed some of the antisemitic threats Engoron and his clerk have received since trial began.

 

"I mean, honestly, you should be assassinated," a caller fumed in one of those voicemails, transcribed in court records made public on Wednesday. "You should be killed."

 

Trump's lawyers downplayed the possibility that "an unknown third party may react in a hostile or offensive manner" the former president's attacks on the clerk.

 

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[Bang]

Seems they think their best defense is for Trump to set loose some deranged jackass to kill the judge or intimidate the jury.

 

~Bang

[China]

1 hour ago, Bang said:

Seems they think their best defense is for Trump to set loose some deranged jackass to kill the judge or intimidate the jury.

 

~Bang

 

Of course, because that would inevitably result in a delay or retrial.  His entire strategy is pushing things as far out into the future as possible, because he can't win on the facts.

[LadySkinsFan]

16 hours ago, China said:

 

Of course, because that would inevitably result in a delay or retrial.  His entire strategy is pushing things as far out into the future as possible, because he can't win on the facts.

 

He's already lost this one, all that remains are the penalties for his civil malfeasance.