JUDGMENT 22 February 2024
Disgorgement (all plus accumulating interest at 9% pa) (Spreadsheet of the running total to date)
- Trump $454m
- Don Jr $4.7m
- Eric $4.7m
- Weisselberg $1.1m
Bans (running from 16 Feb 2024)
- Serving as officer/director in NY - Trump/McConney/Weisselberg 3 years, Eric/Don Jr 2 years
- from any financial control job - Weisselberg/McConney lifetime
- applying for loans - Trump + corporate defendants 3 years
Business certificates NOT cancelled (at least not yet)
Independent monitor over Trump Org extended for at least 3 years
Independent Compliance Director to be appointed
People of the State of New York v Donald J Trump, Donald Trump Jr(*1), Eric Trump,Ivanka Trump(*2), Allen Weisselberg, Jeffrey McConney, The Donald J Trump Revocable Trust, The Trump Organisation Inc., Trump Organisation LLC, DJT Holdings LLC, DJT Holdings Managing Member, Trump Endeavour 12 LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC, Trump Old Post Office LLC, 40 Wall Street LLC, and Seven Springs LLC
*1 Donald Jr sued personally and as Trustee of the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust
*2 Ivanka dismissed from the case on appeal
This is the New York civil fraud case. AG James has also made criminal referrals to both DoJ and IRS, which I'll add to this thread if they happen. (I expect that at least the IRS one will be settled).
CASE DETAILS
Court: In the Supreme Court of New York (which, in New York, is a trial court)
Case#: 452564/2022 (docket link, I think it works)
Brought by: Letitia James, Attorney General of New York
Judge: Arthur Engoron
Defense lawyers: Chris Kise, Alina Habba, Jesus Suarez, Clifford Robert
COMPLAINT
The complaint itself (as revised) runs to 222 pages, and there are 24 exhibits as well, mostly financial statements and spreadsheets. If you want to just get an overview, read at the index on pages 6-7 of the complaint, and Exhibit 2 which is a 2-page summary of the alleged deceptive strategies used.
Causes of action - all for "repeated and persistent illegality" in:
1) fraud
2) falsifying business records
3) conspiracy to falsify business records
4) issuing false financial statements
5) conspiracy to falsify financial statements
6) insurance fraud
7) conspiracy to insurance fraud
EVENTS (from Docket, but expurgated!)
17 Feb 2022 - ORDER adding Trump, Jr, Ivanka as defendants
21 Sep 2022 - Revised Complaint filed
13 Oct 2022 - AG motion for preliminary injunction and appointment of monitor
4 Nov 2022 - ORDER GRANTING preliminary injunction and independent monitor (quite a good read)
14 Nov 2022 - Barbara Jones appointed as independent monitor
21 Nov 2022 - SIX motions to dismiss from various defendant parties
9 Jan 2023 - ORDER DENYING motions to dismiss
26 Jan 2023 - ANSWERS to complaint (enormous documents putting AG to proof)
3 Feb 2023 - APPEAL of denial of orders to dismiss
9 Feb 2023 - long letter with giant spreadsheet from AG on deficiencies in answers
21 Feb 2023 - lots of AMENDED ANSWERS to complaint
21 Feb 2023 - Defendants request to extend fact discovery (and delay trial)
23 Feb 2023 - ORDER restricting expert discovery
14 Mar 2023 - DISCOVERY EXTENDED into April
9 Jun 2023 - revised schedule
6 July 2023 - APPEALS COURT OPINION dismisses Ivanka, applies limitations to others from 2014 or 2016
22 Sep 2023 - hearing on pretrial motions
26 Sep 2023 - SUMMARY JUDGMENT on count 1, sanctions and motion to dismiss
28 Sep 2023 - appeals court VACATES stay of trial - we're on for Monday!
2 Oct 2023 - START OF TRIAL (each trial day is threadmarked)
- State's opening argument slides , witness list
- Defense opening argument slides , witness list
TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS
- state's case 2 Oct-9 Nov
- defense case 13-17 Nov, 20-21 Nov, 27 Nov-1 Dec, 4-8 Dec, 12-13 Dec
4 Oct 2023 - Trump appeals summary judgment
5 Oct 2023 - Supplemental ORDER restricting defendant activities, require notice of transactions
15 Nov 2023 - Trump motion for mistrial, AG letter 16 Nov, DENIED 17 Nov (actually an order to show cause rather than a motion - the effect is the same)
13 Dec 2023 END OF TRIAL
15 Dec 2023 - Trump motion for directed verdict, opposed 18 Dec, DENIED 18 Dec
4 Jan 2024 - media application for video coverage of closing arguments
5 Jan 2024 CLOSING BRIEFS
- Attorney General: findings of fact and conclusions of law
- All defendants except Don Jr and Eric: findings of fact, conclusions of law
- Don Jr and Eric: findings of fact, conclusions of law
10 Jan - email chain DENYING Trump's proposed participation in closing arguments
11 Jan 2024 - closing arguments: plaintiff, defendants, Don Jr & Eric
26 Jan 2024 - independent monitor report, Trump complains about it 29 Jan
6 Feb 2024 - Judge Engoron letter to counsel (Weisselberg perjury), AG response 7 Feb, Robert response 7 Feb (Engoron reply 8 Feb), Habba response 7 Feb
16 Feb 2024 - DECISION DAY $364m + bans
20 Feb 2024 - AG proposed JUDGMENT, Trump objects and wants a 30-day stay, DENIED
22 Feb 2024 - JUDGMENT entered
21 Mar 2024 - MONITORSHIP ORDER
1 Apr 2024 - $175m bond filed, AG notice of exception 4 Apr, response due 15 Apr, SHOW CAUSE ORDER 16 Apr, response 19 Apr, hearing 22 Apr, stipulation 26 Apr ...
4 Apr 2024 - AG letter to reopen discovery re Weisselberg perjury, defendants' response 8 Apr, Weisselberg response 8 Apr, AG letter 9 Apr, ...
24 Apr 2024 - Independent Monitor report
26 Apr 2024 - ORDER permitting Independent Monitor to communicate ex parte
Appellate Division, First Department
(Article 78 proceeding as Trump v Engoron 2023-04580) petitioning to have judge apply appeals decision
20 Sep 2023 petition, stay lifted 28 Sep, petition withdrawn 5 Oct
(Article 78 proceeding as Trump v Engoron 2023-05859) appealing gag order and sanctions
16 Nov - Trump appeals gag order, stay temporarily lifted 16 Nov, opposed 22 Nov, DENIED 14 Dec
21 Dec - Leave to appeal to NY Court of Appeals DENIED
To find these following appeals dockets, click on the main case docket, then Case Details to get a full list, and click through
(2023-04925) appeal of summary judgment 26 Sep 2023 cancelling business certificates
25 Mar 2024 - motion to extend deadline to perfect appeal by 60 days from 4 Apr to 3 Jun
4 Apr 2024 - original deadline to perfect appeal
(2023-05181) appeal of supplemental order 4 Oct 2023 giving deadline for names of candidate receivers
17 Oct 2023 - notice of appeal
(2023-05460) appeal of 30 Oct order for Ivanka Trump to testify
1 Nov 2024 - notice of appeal, stay denied 2 Nov, appeal withdrawn 3 Nov, order 14 Dec
(2024-00134) appeal of 16 Feb Decision and Order
26 Feb 2024 - notice of appeal
28 Feb 2024 - Trump motion for stay (at p1742 of 1794), (administrative stay opposed 28 Feb, GRANTED IN PART 28 Feb (bans & loan ban only)), opposed 11 Mar, reply 18 Mar, (motion for surreply 20 Mar, opposed 21 Mar, GRANTED 21 Mar) surreply 22 Mar, ORDER 25 Mar setting bond at $175m by 4 Apr
4 Apr 2024 - $175m bond due
Appeal calendared for September term, so probably ...
8 Jul 2024 - Trump appeal brief and copy of trial record
7 Aug 2024 - AG response brief
16 Aug 2024 - Trump reply brief
?? Sep 2024 - Oral Argument
(2024-00135) appeal of 22 Feb Judgment
26 Feb 2024 - notice of appeal
New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct
10 Nov 2023 - complaint by Elise Stefanik, ...
APPLICABLE LAW
New York Executive Law s 63(12)
175.05 falsifying business records
175.45 issuing false financial statements
176.05 insurance fraud
New York Civil Procedure
PRESS REPORTS
21 Sept 2022 New York AG file $250m lawsuit against Trump (ABC News)
21 Sept 2022 New York Attorney General Letitia James says Trump committed crimes, asks federal prosecutors and IRS to investigate (CNBC)
Feb 2023 Trump trial will go ahead on 2nd October "come hell or high water" says judge (Business Insider)
14 Apr 2023 Trump sat for 7-hour deposition (Al Jazeera) (he pled the 5th 400 times!)
REPORTERS IN THE COURTROOM
Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) for MSNBC
Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) for The Messenger
Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) for the Daily Beast
Frank Runyeon (@frankrunyeon) for Law360 - there is a liveblog on law360.com, but it is paywalled
Stewart Bishop (@stewartbishop) for Law360
Dan Alexander (@DanAlexander21) for Forbes - he knows the financials inside out
BACKGROUND
This all comes out of Trump's carefully-concealed financial records, which New York eventually got hold of from the accounting firm Mazars after a series of protracted court cases culminating in Trump v Vance in the Supreme Court (Clarence and Alito dissenting, surprise). The subpoena was issued in August 2019, but it took until February 2021 to get hold of the millions of documents, after going all up and down the Federal appeals system TWICE. To nobody's surprise at all, there was an awful lot of fraud going on. Allegedly. Including the absolute gall of the former President overstating by three times the size of his Trump Tower apartment when face-to-face with a real-estate valuer who was standing in said apartment at the time!
There's a lot at stake here. AG James is seeking, amongst other things, to:
- CANCEL the business certificates of corporate defendants (lots of Trump Org entities)
- REPLACE the trustees of the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust
- for 5 years, require independently audited accounts and BAR Trump & Trump Org from acquiring any NY real estate and even applying for loans
- PERMANENTLY BAR Trump & the kids from being an officer or director of any NY firm
- RECOVER about $250,000,000 in benefits of the fraud
(the prayers for relief are lettered from A to J, but there's no letter H, I wonder what got taken out?)
I've elided over lots of boring things in the docket in the "Events" section above. Much of it is duplicated and largely identical filings because of the large number of defendants. But three episodes stuck out to me:
The first, in early January, was an email from the judge threatening defense counsel with sanctions for frivolous litigation, followed by counsels' oleaginous reply suggesting the judge was wrong, then the judge's order denying the motions to dismiss which drips with heavy sarcasm.
The second, in early March, is a letter to Judge Engoron from Roberta Kaplan (who you may remember as E. Jean Carroll's counsel, but is also counsel in yet another case against Trump Corp.) pointing out Trump's duplicitous tactics of playing off two different trials against each other in the hope of delaying both. It's a tactic we'll need to be aware of as the tsunami of cases grows.
The third is the ruling from the New York Appellate Division on Jun 9, which partially overruled Judge Engoron. Basically it decided that:
1) the NY statues of limitation do apply in this case, notwithstanding AG James contention and Judge Engoron's ruling that in a case of persistent fraud they should not.
2) that therefore the case against Ivanka is dismissed (because she was not part of the Trump Org within the statute of limitations)
3) (I think by implication this must mean that the case against Seven Springs LLC will be dropped too)
4) that the Trust should have been sued through its Trustees, but it doesn't make any real difference as there's only one Trustee (Don Jr) and he is a defendant anyway.
Should be fun, this one.
Also on Resetera
Breaking: Donald Trump hit with $250 million financial fraud lawsuit by New York AG, criminal referral to DOJ
Judge says he will appoint monitor for Trump's company in wake of New York fraud lawsuit
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire
Trump has been fined $364 million by Judge Engoron in the New York civil fraud case.
NY Attorney General takes initial steps to prepare to seize Trump assets ahead of next week
People who enjoyed this may also enjoy ...
E Jean Carroll v Donald J Trump (civil case for battery and defamation)
Trump on Trial - Episode 1 |OT| The One with the Porn Star
Trump on Trial - Episode 2 |OT| The One with the Perfect Phone Call in Georgia (Fulton County)
Trump on Trial - Episode 4 |OT| The One with the Missing Documents
Trump on Trial - Episode 5 |OT| The One with the Insurrection
Trump on Trial - Episode 6 |OT| The One with the One Weird Trick (14th amendment ballot access)
Trump on Trial - Episode 7 |OT| The Ones with the Ku Klux Klan Act (Jan 6 civil cases)
Disgorgement (all plus accumulating interest at 9% pa) (Spreadsheet of the running total to date)
- Trump $454m
- Don Jr $4.7m
- Eric $4.7m
- Weisselberg $1.1m
Bans (running from 16 Feb 2024)
- Serving as officer/director in NY - Trump/McConney/Weisselberg 3 years, Eric/Don Jr 2 years
- from any financial control job - Weisselberg/McConney lifetime
- applying for loans - Trump + corporate defendants 3 years
Business certificates NOT cancelled (at least not yet)
Independent monitor over Trump Org extended for at least 3 years
Independent Compliance Director to be appointed
People of the State of New York v Donald J Trump, Donald Trump Jr(*1), Eric Trump,
*1 Donald Jr sued personally and as Trustee of the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust
*2 Ivanka dismissed from the case on appeal
This is the New York civil fraud case. AG James has also made criminal referrals to both DoJ and IRS, which I'll add to this thread if they happen. (I expect that at least the IRS one will be settled).
CASE DETAILS
Court: In the Supreme Court of New York (which, in New York, is a trial court)
Case#: 452564/2022 (docket link, I think it works)
Brought by: Letitia James, Attorney General of New York
Judge: Arthur Engoron
Defense lawyers: Chris Kise, Alina Habba, Jesus Suarez, Clifford Robert
COMPLAINT
The complaint itself (as revised) runs to 222 pages, and there are 24 exhibits as well, mostly financial statements and spreadsheets. If you want to just get an overview, read at the index on pages 6-7 of the complaint, and Exhibit 2 which is a 2-page summary of the alleged deceptive strategies used.
Causes of action - all for "repeated and persistent illegality" in:
1) fraud
2) falsifying business records
3) conspiracy to falsify business records
4) issuing false financial statements
5) conspiracy to falsify financial statements
6) insurance fraud
7) conspiracy to insurance fraud
EVENTS (from Docket, but expurgated!)
17 Feb 2022 - ORDER adding Trump, Jr, Ivanka as defendants
21 Sep 2022 - Revised Complaint filed
13 Oct 2022 - AG motion for preliminary injunction and appointment of monitor
4 Nov 2022 - ORDER GRANTING preliminary injunction and independent monitor (quite a good read)
14 Nov 2022 - Barbara Jones appointed as independent monitor
21 Nov 2022 - SIX motions to dismiss from various defendant parties
9 Jan 2023 - ORDER DENYING motions to dismiss
26 Jan 2023 - ANSWERS to complaint (enormous documents putting AG to proof)
3 Feb 2023 - APPEAL of denial of orders to dismiss
9 Feb 2023 - long letter with giant spreadsheet from AG on deficiencies in answers
21 Feb 2023 - lots of AMENDED ANSWERS to complaint
21 Feb 2023 - Defendants request to extend fact discovery (and delay trial)
23 Feb 2023 - ORDER restricting expert discovery
14 Mar 2023 - DISCOVERY EXTENDED into April
9 Jun 2023 - revised schedule
6 July 2023 - APPEALS COURT OPINION dismisses Ivanka, applies limitations to others from 2014 or 2016
22 Sep 2023 - hearing on pretrial motions
26 Sep 2023 - SUMMARY JUDGMENT on count 1, sanctions and motion to dismiss
28 Sep 2023 - appeals court VACATES stay of trial - we're on for Monday!
2 Oct 2023 - START OF TRIAL (each trial day is threadmarked)
- State's opening argument slides , witness list
- Defense opening argument slides , witness list
TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS
- state's case 2 Oct-9 Nov
- defense case 13-17 Nov, 20-21 Nov, 27 Nov-1 Dec, 4-8 Dec, 12-13 Dec
4 Oct 2023 - Trump appeals summary judgment
5 Oct 2023 - Supplemental ORDER restricting defendant activities, require notice of transactions
15 Nov 2023 - Trump motion for mistrial, AG letter 16 Nov, DENIED 17 Nov (actually an order to show cause rather than a motion - the effect is the same)
13 Dec 2023 END OF TRIAL
15 Dec 2023 - Trump motion for directed verdict, opposed 18 Dec, DENIED 18 Dec
4 Jan 2024 - media application for video coverage of closing arguments
5 Jan 2024 CLOSING BRIEFS
- Attorney General: findings of fact and conclusions of law
- All defendants except Don Jr and Eric: findings of fact, conclusions of law
- Don Jr and Eric: findings of fact, conclusions of law
10 Jan - email chain DENYING Trump's proposed participation in closing arguments
11 Jan 2024 - closing arguments: plaintiff, defendants, Don Jr & Eric
26 Jan 2024 - independent monitor report, Trump complains about it 29 Jan
6 Feb 2024 - Judge Engoron letter to counsel (Weisselberg perjury), AG response 7 Feb, Robert response 7 Feb (Engoron reply 8 Feb), Habba response 7 Feb
16 Feb 2024 - DECISION DAY $364m + bans
20 Feb 2024 - AG proposed JUDGMENT, Trump objects and wants a 30-day stay, DENIED
22 Feb 2024 - JUDGMENT entered
21 Mar 2024 - MONITORSHIP ORDER
1 Apr 2024 - $175m bond filed, AG notice of exception 4 Apr, response due 15 Apr, SHOW CAUSE ORDER 16 Apr, response 19 Apr, hearing 22 Apr, stipulation 26 Apr ...
4 Apr 2024 - AG letter to reopen discovery re Weisselberg perjury, defendants' response 8 Apr, Weisselberg response 8 Apr, AG letter 9 Apr, ...
24 Apr 2024 - Independent Monitor report
26 Apr 2024 - ORDER permitting Independent Monitor to communicate ex parte
Appellate Division, First Department
(Article 78 proceeding as Trump v Engoron 2023-04580) petitioning to have judge apply appeals decision
20 Sep 2023 petition, stay lifted 28 Sep, petition withdrawn 5 Oct
(Article 78 proceeding as Trump v Engoron 2023-05859) appealing gag order and sanctions
16 Nov - Trump appeals gag order, stay temporarily lifted 16 Nov, opposed 22 Nov, DENIED 14 Dec
21 Dec - Leave to appeal to NY Court of Appeals DENIED
To find these following appeals dockets, click on the main case docket, then Case Details to get a full list, and click through
(2023-04925) appeal of summary judgment 26 Sep 2023 cancelling business certificates
25 Mar 2024 - motion to extend deadline to perfect appeal by 60 days from 4 Apr to 3 Jun
4 Apr 2024 - original deadline to perfect appeal
(2023-05181) appeal of supplemental order 4 Oct 2023 giving deadline for names of candidate receivers
17 Oct 2023 - notice of appeal
(2023-05460) appeal of 30 Oct order for Ivanka Trump to testify
1 Nov 2024 - notice of appeal, stay denied 2 Nov, appeal withdrawn 3 Nov, order 14 Dec
(2024-00134) appeal of 16 Feb Decision and Order
26 Feb 2024 - notice of appeal
28 Feb 2024 - Trump motion for stay (at p1742 of 1794), (administrative stay opposed 28 Feb, GRANTED IN PART 28 Feb (bans & loan ban only)), opposed 11 Mar, reply 18 Mar, (motion for surreply 20 Mar, opposed 21 Mar, GRANTED 21 Mar) surreply 22 Mar, ORDER 25 Mar setting bond at $175m by 4 Apr
4 Apr 2024 - $175m bond due
Appeal calendared for September term, so probably ...
8 Jul 2024 - Trump appeal brief and copy of trial record
7 Aug 2024 - AG response brief
16 Aug 2024 - Trump reply brief
?? Sep 2024 - Oral Argument
(2024-00135) appeal of 22 Feb Judgment
26 Feb 2024 - notice of appeal
New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct
10 Nov 2023 - complaint by Elise Stefanik, ...
APPLICABLE LAW
New York Executive Law s 63(12)
Also various bits of the NY Penal Code, especially12. Whenever any person shall engage in repeated fraudulent or illegal acts or otherwise demonstrate persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting or transaction of business, the attorney general may apply, in the name of the people of the state of New York, to the supreme court of the state of New York, on notice of five days, for an order enjoining the continuance of such business activity or of any fraudulent or illegal acts, directing restitution and damages and, in an appropriate case, cancelling any certificate filed under and by virtue of the provisions of section four hundred forty of the former penal law 3 or section one hundred thirty of the general business law, and the court may award the relief applied for or so much thereof as it may deem proper. The word "fraud" or "fraudulent" as used herein shall include any device, scheme or artifice to defraud and any deception, misrepresentation, concealment, suppression, false pretense, false promise or unconscionable contractual provisions. The term "persistent fraud" or "illegality" as used herein shall include continuance or carrying on of any fraudulent or illegal act or conduct. The term "repeated" as used herein shall include repetition of any separate and distinct fraudulent or illegal act, or conduct which affects more than one person. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all monies recovered or obtained under this subdivision by a state agency or state official or employee acting in their official capacity shall be subject to subdivision eleven of section four of the state finance law.
175.05 falsifying business records
175.45 issuing false financial statements
176.05 insurance fraud
New York Civil Procedure
PRESS REPORTS
21 Sept 2022 New York AG file $250m lawsuit against Trump (ABC News)
21 Sept 2022 New York Attorney General Letitia James says Trump committed crimes, asks federal prosecutors and IRS to investigate (CNBC)
Feb 2023 Trump trial will go ahead on 2nd October "come hell or high water" says judge (Business Insider)
14 Apr 2023 Trump sat for 7-hour deposition (Al Jazeera) (he pled the 5th 400 times!)
REPORTERS IN THE COURTROOM
Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) for MSNBC
Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) for The Messenger
Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) for the Daily Beast
Frank Runyeon (@frankrunyeon) for Law360 - there is a liveblog on law360.com, but it is paywalled
Stewart Bishop (@stewartbishop) for Law360
Dan Alexander (@DanAlexander21) for Forbes - he knows the financials inside out
BACKGROUND
This all comes out of Trump's carefully-concealed financial records, which New York eventually got hold of from the accounting firm Mazars after a series of protracted court cases culminating in Trump v Vance in the Supreme Court (Clarence and Alito dissenting, surprise). The subpoena was issued in August 2019, but it took until February 2021 to get hold of the millions of documents, after going all up and down the Federal appeals system TWICE. To nobody's surprise at all, there was an awful lot of fraud going on. Allegedly. Including the absolute gall of the former President overstating by three times the size of his Trump Tower apartment when face-to-face with a real-estate valuer who was standing in said apartment at the time!
There's a lot at stake here. AG James is seeking, amongst other things, to:
- CANCEL the business certificates of corporate defendants (lots of Trump Org entities)
- REPLACE the trustees of the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust
- for 5 years, require independently audited accounts and BAR Trump & Trump Org from acquiring any NY real estate and even applying for loans
- PERMANENTLY BAR Trump & the kids from being an officer or director of any NY firm
- RECOVER about $250,000,000 in benefits of the fraud
(the prayers for relief are lettered from A to J, but there's no letter H, I wonder what got taken out?)
I've elided over lots of boring things in the docket in the "Events" section above. Much of it is duplicated and largely identical filings because of the large number of defendants. But three episodes stuck out to me:
The first, in early January, was an email from the judge threatening defense counsel with sanctions for frivolous litigation, followed by counsels' oleaginous reply suggesting the judge was wrong, then the judge's order denying the motions to dismiss which drips with heavy sarcasm.
The second, in early March, is a letter to Judge Engoron from Roberta Kaplan (who you may remember as E. Jean Carroll's counsel, but is also counsel in yet another case against Trump Corp.) pointing out Trump's duplicitous tactics of playing off two different trials against each other in the hope of delaying both. It's a tactic we'll need to be aware of as the tsunami of cases grows.
The third is the ruling from the New York Appellate Division on Jun 9, which partially overruled Judge Engoron. Basically it decided that:
1) the NY statues of limitation do apply in this case, notwithstanding AG James contention and Judge Engoron's ruling that in a case of persistent fraud they should not.
2) that therefore the case against Ivanka is dismissed (because she was not part of the Trump Org within the statute of limitations)
3) (I think by implication this must mean that the case against Seven Springs LLC will be dropped too)
4) that the Trust should have been sued through its Trustees, but it doesn't make any real difference as there's only one Trustee (Don Jr) and he is a defendant anyway.
Should be fun, this one.
Also on Resetera
Breaking: Donald Trump hit with $250 million financial fraud lawsuit by New York AG, criminal referral to DOJ
Judge says he will appoint monitor for Trump's company in wake of New York fraud lawsuit
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire
Trump has been fined $364 million by Judge Engoron in the New York civil fraud case.
NY Attorney General takes initial steps to prepare to seize Trump assets ahead of next week
People who enjoyed this may also enjoy ...
E Jean Carroll v Donald J Trump (civil case for battery and defamation)
Trump on Trial - Episode 1 |OT| The One with the Porn Star
Trump on Trial - Episode 2 |OT| The One with the Perfect Phone Call in Georgia (Fulton County)
Trump on Trial - Episode 4 |OT| The One with the Missing Documents
Trump on Trial - Episode 5 |OT| The One with the Insurrection
Trump on Trial - Episode 6 |OT| The One with the One Weird Trick (14th amendment ballot access)
Trump on Trial - Episode 7 |OT| The Ones with the Ku Klux Klan Act (Jan 6 civil cases)
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