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2024-02-17 Government Corruption
Trump fined $355 million in fraud trial, banned from NY business
[IsraelTimes] A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
 to pay $355 million over fraud allegations and banned him from running companies in the state for three years in a major blow to his business empire and financial standing.

Trump — almost certain to be the Republican presidential nominee this November — was found liable for unlawfully inflating his wealth and manipulating the value of properties to obtain more favorable bank loans or insurance terms.

As the case was civil, not criminal, there was no threat of jail time. But Trump said ahead of the ruling that a ban on conducting business in New York state would be akin to a "corporate death penalty
."

Trump, who faces 91 criminal indictments in other cases, has seized on his legal woes to fire up supporters and denounce his likely opponent President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
, claiming that court cases are "just a way of hurting me in the election."

The extent of the order by Judge Arthur Engoron threatens to shatter his personal wealth and ability to earn in the future.

The "defendants’ refusal to admit error — indeed, to continue it, according to the Independent Monitor — constrains this Court to conclude that they will engage in it going forward unless judicially restrained," Engoron writes in his scathing order.

"Indeed, Donald Trump testified that, even today, he does not believe the Trump Organization needed to make any changes based on the facts that came out during this trial."

It was as a property developer and businessman in New York that Trump built his public profile which he used as a springboard into the entertainment industry and ultimately the presidency.

The judge’s order was a victory for New York state Attorney General Letitia James. She had sought $370 million from Trump to remedy the advantage he is alleged to have wrongfully obtained, as well as having him barred from conducting business in the state.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 Political repression has arrived in force. Extortion, violation of civil rights, unlawful confiscation, entrapment and imprisonment of supporters, intimidation and threats of assassination (see cryptic threat made by George Soros's son Alex Soros), etc..
Posted by Beldar Uneter3543 2024-02-17 00:28||   2024-02-17 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Between the United States and Russia, one country just arbitrarily seized the assets of an oligarch opposed to the regime, and is trying to jail him

The other country is Russia
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 00:49||   2024-02-17 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Seattle High School Issues Handout Telling Children That Enjoying the 'Written Word' Is White Supremacy
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 00:53||   2024-02-17 00:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Who lost money in the deal?
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-17 06:24||   2024-02-17 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 
Could it be the goal is to Bankrupt Trump so he can't hire lawyers and investigators to find things
like DA's humping the paid Investigators?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-17 07:17||   2024-02-17 07:17|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Never thought of that, but it's certainly a plausible theory.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-17 08:09||   2024-02-17 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Welcome to lawfare. The process is the punishment.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-02-17 09:06||   2024-02-17 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 load your weapons.
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-17 10:24||   2024-02-17 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Judge has well documented bias. Decision was cooked in the cake before the first selfies taken. I enjoyed the fix being so in, everyone involved got cocky and exposed themselves.

Its the appeal which has me concerned.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-17 10:36||   2024-02-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Yep. Evil fok that he is, Vlad Putin has absolutely nothing on these people.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-17 10:38||   2024-02-17 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ A lot of the New York big money bidness community is nervous about the "precedent" set here. Phones will be ringing in the places where appeals court judges take phone calls.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-17 10:41||   2024-02-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 The dizziness of NBC news this morning gleefully reporting the judgement against Trump and then the very next story outlining the tyranny of Russia versus Putin’s political opponent. Not seeing the irony is quite unbelievable if not intentional.
Posted by Airandee 2024-02-17 11:02||   2024-02-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 #4 Who lost money in the deal?

Well, the State of New York figures they're up $355 million...
Posted by Bobby 2024-02-17 11:18||   2024-02-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 3/4 of what the judge used to convict Trump was well past the statute of limitations. That alone should guarantee an appeal victory but considering this is New York I am very skeptical.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-17 11:22||   2024-02-17 11:22|| Front Page Top

#15 The dizziness of NBC news this morning gleefully reporting the judgement against Trump and then the very next story outlining the tyranny of Russia versus Putin’s political opponent. Not seeing the irony is quite unbelievable if not intentional.

Yeah, I hear a lot of talk about CNN but NBC, ABC and CBS are just as bad.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-17 13:08||   2024-02-17 13:08|| Front Page Top

#16 How is commercial real estate doing in NYC anyway? I thought so.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-17 14:09||   2024-02-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#17 I think the outrageous amount and conditions were intended to accomplish two things - to garner as much attention and encouragement as possible for Trump's enemies as it made headlines, and the guarantee that the Appellate Court could act in some "reasonable" fashion to overturn the insanity. Engoron has made his bones for the political establishment in the miasma that is New York demokrat politics, and will be immune from actual consequences.

That it confirms the reasons for mockery of "equal justice under the law" and contributes to the general decline of public trust in government is unimportant to the left, they have long since abandoned any understanding of "consent of the governed" and don't see where that leads!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-17 14:49||   2024-02-17 14:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Fox was giggling about it, too. Clowns.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-17 16:27||   2024-02-17 16:27|| Front Page Top

#19 @#5&6 - And perhaps a warning to future enemies of the state. Let's recall the $1 billion fine handed to Alex Jones.
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-17 19:25||   2024-02-17 19:25|| Front Page Top

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