Letitia James specifically named Donald Trump’s building at 40 Wall Street. Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA The New York state attorney general, Letitia James, said that she will seize Donald Trump’s assets if he does not pay the $355m civil fraud fine stemming from his financial fraud trial.
“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James said to ABC News in an interview on Tuesday evening.
James added that she would not hesitate to seize Trump’s buildings, including his 40 Wall Street skyscraper in Manhattan.
“We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day,” James told ABC.
Last Friday, a New York judge fined Trump, his two eldest sons, and associates $354.8m and $100m in pre-judgment interest after ruling that Trump had falsely reported his net worth to obtain more favorable loan terms. Trump, a former president and the likely Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential race, overstated his net worth by as much as $3.6bn a year, the judge, Arthur Engoron, ruled.
Trump and his legal team have denied any wrongdoing and decried the verdict as politically motivated. They have said they will appeal the ruling.
Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, attacked the verdict as “manifest injustice” and part of a “multi-year, politically fueled witch-hunt that was designed to ‘take down Donald Trump’”.
Trump claimed on his platform Truth Social that there were no victims in the case.
But James told ABC that she believes in the strength of her case, noting that “financial frauds are not victimless crimes”.
“He engaged in this massive amount of fraud. It wasn’t just a simple mistake, a slight oversight, the variations are wildly exaggerated, and the extent of the fraud was staggering,” James said.
The latest fine comes in addition to a $83.3m judgment against Trump for a defamation suit brought by the journalist and author E Jean Carroll.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Republicans for swallowing lies that were fed to them from Russian intelligence.The GOP's star witness in the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden has been arrested for lying to the FBI, and he admitted to investigators that evidence he fed to...
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GOP so 'stupid' that Russia 'can feed disinfo straight into their veins': Morning Joe
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Republicans for swallowing lies that were fed to them from Russian intelligence.
The GOP's star witness in the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden has been arrested for lying to the FBI, and he admitted to investigators that evidence he fed to lawmakers had come from sources with ties to Russian intelligence, which the "Morning Joe" host said that was more evidence that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are beholden to Vladimir Putin.
"Just shocking, you have Russian security services deciding, hey, we can just send unfiltered crap straight to Congress," Scarborough said. "We don't even have to worry about it being filtered by intel services, as we heard the report earlier, it is just shocking, and why is that? Because Republicans hate Joe Biden more than they fear Vladimir Putin. It's really sick. Trump, once again, and Republicans being played once again by Vladimir Putin."
"Putin has Republicans on a string," Scarborough added. "Think about the fact that Vladimir Putin understands that Republicans are so stupid now in the House, even with the help of their legal counsel, Arnold the pig from 'Green Acres,' that Republicans are so stupid in the House, they can feed Russian disinformation straight into the veins of the United States Congress. straight in, and because they hate them so much. And then you have idiots running around talking about how they have got this disinformation that will bring down Joe Biden, like they depended on Russian disinformation, they depended on an international fugitive illegally selling Iranian oil to communist China... and all of this to try to take down Joe Biden and none of it is hitting, and we've been saying this for months. Keeps making them look worse."
Blabbering Donald Trump Hands Jack Smith a Key Piece of Evidence
Trump said something he probably shouldn’t have in that Fox News town hall.
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Donald Trump must really believe he’s above the law, because he continues to essentially admit to wrongdoing in the classified documents lawsuit against him.
Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump in June for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. During a Fox News town hall on Tuesday night, host Laura Ingraham asked Trump why he hadn’t simply returned the material when the government asked him to do so.
“First of all, I didn’t have to hand them over,” Trump said bluntly. “But second of all, I would have done that. We were talking, and then all of a sudden they raided Mar-a-Lago.”
The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 after the federal government—and even Trump’s own lawyers—tried for months to get Trump to return hundreds of classified documents that he took with him when he left the White House. And FBI agents may not have even found all of the documents hidden at the resort.
The former president faces 41 criminal counts for willful retention of national defense information, making false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice, among other things. He has repeatedly insisted that he had every right to keep the documents. He does not.
Trump has also claimed, despite knowing otherwise, that all the material he brought to Florida was already declassified. Trump said that being president enabled him to declassify documents at will, including “just by thinking about it.” This is not true.
And now Trump has given Smith even more proof that the former president had wrongfully kept classified documents. Trump’
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