New York attorney general hits Trump at DNC, says she’s ‘confident’ in $454 million fraud verdict
By
Kaelan Deese
and
Marisa Schultz
August 22, 2024 1:20 pm
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CHICAGO — Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York, hit out at former President Donald Trump’s legal strategy at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday morning, defending her aggressive $454 million fine against him just hours after her office told an appeals court to uphold the judgment.
During a Thursday morning breakfast event where James was speaking, the Empire State attorney general told the Washington Examiner that the recent effort by Trump’s attorneys to appeal the costly judgment is “basically a repetition of all the things that he has said previously that have been rejected by the courts.”
“So I’m confident” the judgment will be upheld, James added.
James’s remarks come just hours after lawyers for her office urged an appeals court late Wednesday to uphold New York Judge Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 16 ruling. He found Trump and his business associates liable for civil fraud, imposed the multi-million dollar fine, limited Trump’s ability to do business in the state, and placed the Trump Organization under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor for at least three years.
“On appeal, defendants tellingly ignore almost all their deceptions,” Assistant Solicitor General Daniel S. Magy wrote in a 168-page filing, arguing that Trump, the Trump Organization, and top executives within it engaged in a “variety of deceptive strategies” to misrepresent the former president’s assets.
Rather, in his appeal, Trump used the same arguments he made at trial that banks were interested in working with the Trump Organization and found no fraud, Magy added.
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