Letitia James

'He perfected the art of the steal': Letitia James speaks out after Trump hit with verdict

In the wake of winning a more than $350 million judgment against Donald Trump this Friday in her business fraud case against him, New York Attorney General Letitia James celebrated the verdict in a post to social media, and summarized its key details.

"In a massive victory, we won our case against Donald Trump for engaging in years of incredible financial fraud to enrich himself," the post from her office's official X account read. "Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and his former executives must pay over $450 million in disgorgement and interest."

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MAGA melts down after Trump hit with massive fraud damages verdict

Donald Trump on Friday was hit with an order to pay more than $350 million in connection with his civil fraud case, prompting his right-wing loyalists to completely melt down.

Earlier in the day, New York Justice Arthur Engoron ordered the former president pay $364 million in damages in the civil fraud lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Letitia James. Trump attorney Alina Habba called the verdict a "manifest injustice."

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'Borders on pathological': Here's what Arthur Engoron has to say about Donald Trump

Justice Arthur Engoron's massive ruling, which amounts to a more than $350 million bill for Trump, slams the former president, his sons, and his partners for more than just fraud.

"Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological," Engoron wrote in his 92-page ruling. "They adopt a 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' posture that the evidence belies."

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Law clerk attacked by Trump in fraud trial launches bid to become judge

The court clerk for Judge Arthur Engoron who was hounded by Donald Trump during the fraud case against him is now running to be a judge herself.

Allison Greenfield is seeking a judgeship in the Manhattan Civil Courts.

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'Manifest injustice — plain and simple': Alina Habba lashes out at Trump verdict

Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba complained Friday that Judge Arthur Engoron's more than $350 million ruling against her client was unfair.

"This verdict is a manifest injustice — plain and simple," Habba said in a statement.

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Trump hit by massive damages as fraud trial verdict issued

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered Donald Trump pay more than $350 million in damages in the civil fraud lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Letitia James, court records show.

The former president, his adult sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and other top executives at the Trump Organization have been found liable by the judge for filing falsified financial records in a decades-long fraud scheme, the ruling shows.

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'Misery, destruction and death': Trump's grim image of world in which U.S. is not 'feared'

Donald Trump compared life under President Joe Biden to a dystopian hell in a social media post dripping in dramatic imagery Friday.

The former president — who presided over the deaths of 425,000 Americans from COVID-19, nearly 20 percent of all worldwide deaths in his final 10 months in office — complained the world had become a grim and dismal place since he was replaced by Biden in January 2021.

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'Documents don't lie': Legal experts applaud Manhattan DA’s 'powerful' case against Trump

This week brought more than one bombshell in former President Donald Trump's legal problems.

During an evidentiary hearing in an Atlanta courtroom, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified on her romantic relationship with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade — forcefully arguing that it was a distraction from the reason for the RICO prosecution: Trump and his allies' efforts to "steal an election."

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Letitia James laid trap to keep Trump Org from fleeing the state: legal analyst

With Judge Arthur Engoron expected to hand down a ruling on Friday on the amount of damages Donald Trump and his Trump Organization will have to pay — up to a possible $370 million in ill-gotten profits for committing financial fraud — MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained in a new column why the former president is caught in a trap.

As Rubin noted, New York Attorney General Letitia James has been playing the long game anticipating the former president would try to pack up his operation and move it to Florida where he and his children, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka all now reside.

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Woman after woman 'breaking down this myth that Trump's invincible in court': expert

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis seemed to catch Donald Trump's attorneys off guard when she agreed to testify, and MSNBC's Joyce Vance said she's the latest woman to pierce the ex-president's veil of invincibility.

The Georgia prosecutor brushed aside her own attorneys and sat down on the witness stand, and she battled back against allegations of corruption by attorneys for the former president and his co-defendant Michael Roman, who Vance told "Morning Joe" did not seem prepared for Willis to testify.

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Ruling expected in Trump's N.Y. fraud trial

A New York judge is expected to issue a ruling Friday that could shatter Donald Trump's business empire and force him to pay up to $370 million over fraud allegations.

He is accused of unlawfully inflating his wealth and manipulating the value of his properties to obtain more favorable bank loans or insurance terms.

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Trump's lawyer threatened with sanctions at the close of Stormy Daniels hearing

After getting off to a rough start, the hearing in New York over the Stormy Daniels hush money trial ended with another sharp reprimand.

According to Just Security fellow Adam Klasfeld's live updates from the courtroom, "Trump's prosecutor Christopher Conroy complained about not receiving defense exhibits as discovery some six weeks before trial."

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'I don't have high hopes': Alina Habba dreads verdict in Trump fraud case

Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba is not looking forward to the verdict in her client's civil fraud case, she revealed in an interview this week with Newsmax's Eric Bolling.

The case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, claims that Trump and his two adult sons systematically made fraudulent property valuations to manipulate their tax liability and loan terms, something they vigorously denied at trial. But Judge Arthur Engoron has already held Trump liable for fraud in a summary judgment, with the trial largely to decide damages.

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