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BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

New York Attorney General’s Civil and Criminal Investigations

Since March 2019, New York Attorney General Letitia James has been investigating allegations that the Trump Organization altered property values to avoid tax liabilities. The investigation began after Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen provided congressional testimony that Trump engaged in fraud. In October 2020, James’s office deposed Eric Trump, and in January 2021 a state court judge ruled that Trump’s tax attorneys must turn over thousands of documents.

Update-1: On May 18, 2021, a spokesperson for New York’s Attorney General said, “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organizations in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.”

Update-2: On Dec. 1, 2021, AG James subpoenaed Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr., seeking to question them about the real estate valuations.

Update-3: On Dec. 20, 2021, Trump filed his own lawsuit against James in federal court, accusing her of targeting him out of political animosity and asking the court to halt her investigation. The district court dismissed that suit on May 27, 2022.

Update-4: On Feb. 17, 2022, the state court ruled that the NY AG can question Donald Trump, Ivanka, and Donald Jr. under oath. On June 8, 2022, the Trumps tentatively agreed to be questioned under oath by James’s office in mid-July.

Update-5: On Aug. 10, 2022, AG James deposed Trump, but he repeatedly declined to answer her questions and instead invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Chump has stated, many times - ‘If You’re Innocent, Why Are You Taking the 5th Amendment?’
Reportedly, Chump asserted the Fifth more than 400 times in response to varying questions about his businesses, property valuations, and loans.

Latest update (9/21/2022) Read title of this post

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Makes you giddy doesn't it? Just wait until the republicans get their hands on Biden.

InfiniteISO Loc: The Carolinas, USA

You mean the NY AG that ran on the "I'm gonna get that bastard, Trump" platform actually scraped some charges together after digging into records for months with a rose-tinted magnifying glass?

Nothing Burger!

SteveS Loc: The US is my home.

It's all Politics.

"The number one issue in this country is
defeating Donald Trump. Nothing else matters.” -Letitia James

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1572617504073154561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1572617504073154561%7Ctwgr%5E18b11c11ec45e11168fd22ae8874d01c39b83672%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Fwatch-live-letitia-james-holds-press-conference%2F

jcboy3

It's the start of something big. I expect to see lawsuits and indictments against the Trump cartel for the next few years. I'm getting loaded up on popcorn and beer.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

It is premature to dismiss the 220 page civil complaint filed against Trump, three children and his organization. But, considering the bounds of reasonableness, it is not reasonable to believe that James would destroy her career by filing a frivolous, very public complaint against such an admired ex-president; and, based on past business shenanigans, if is reasonable to believe that Trump might misrepresent values of his properties to gain financially—-insurance, tax, loans, and other financials practices.
But, it is premature at best to decide how this will play out.
Trump sure does step in it, however. Poor, poor, victim that he is.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

And on and on.
For decades these clowns could care less about Trump.
Now they have TDS.
I***ts, he is not president. Investigate the real crimes of the Bidens or inside trading of the Pelosis.
Why all the to do about a private citizen you loved 8 years ago?

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

No matter if this case has merit or not it is totally political, personally I think that there is some merit to this case but at the same time I believe that it is probably overstated, I am still trying to figure out who was hurt in this matter, while murders walk her streets and gun battles rage in Brooklyn she chooses to focus all of her energies on this matter.

Dems.... Forever lost in their hatred of the other.

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

Boy what a source. A unknown Twitter user with name of “ trump war room”

SteveS Loc: The US is my home.

Do you dispute the content of the video, or just who put it on line?

rwoodvira

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There is a bit of irony in his legal issues, one might think of the analogy: “He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.” There was an article in USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/e******ns/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/

Here’s a brief summary from Wikipedia:
In June 2016, USA Today published an analysis of litigation involving Donald Trump, which found that over the previous three decades Trump and his businesses had been involved in 3,500 legal cases in U.S. federal and state courts, an unprecedented number for a U.S. p**********l candidate.[1] Of the 3,500 suits, Trump or one of his companies were plaintiffs in 1,900; defendants in 1,450; and bankruptcy, third party, or other in 150.[1] Trump was named in at least 169 suits in federal court.[2] Over 150 other cases were in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (covering Broward County, Florida) since 1983.[3] In the 1,300 cases where the record establishes the outcome, Trump settled 175 times, lost 38, won 450, and had another 137 cases end with some other outcome. In the other 500 cases, judges dismissed plaintiffs' claims against Trump.[1]

He is facing litigation both criminal and civil in multiple venues – whether guilty or not he will be facing huge expense. A further issue is that he is having trouble finding the best attorneys:
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-struggling-find-good-lawyers-washington-post-report-2022-8

To add to Trump’s woes, the special master he wanted hired is asking for things Trump doesn’t want and Trump wants him replaced:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-demands-special-master-be-fired-and-replaced-with-extra-special-master
Do recall that one of Trump’s attorneys put in writing that there were no classified documents at the resort. Question is if lawyers want the possibility of themselves being d**gged in.

If one ever considered the implications of the OJ trial; it stressed that whether you are guilty or not may be determined by who your counsel is. One felony conviction and the likelihood of Trump running goes down the drain.

The flip side is Biden faces his own issues with his black sheep son.

Maybe we need a modern Diogenes to have a lamp shine on an honest man. I think both parties should start looking in other directions.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Did your other 4-5 boxes of popcorn become stale waiting for Trump's "other"
past indictments?

Overthehill1

Because you don't seem to know, the NY AG prosecutes civil cases, not criminal.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

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Agree with most of your post, but I'd think twice before using the Borowitz report to back yourself up. Would you cite the Onion?