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   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   Lucas McCain  wrote in   
   news:v7ohgf$18kit$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 7/23/2024 12:20 AM, chico ratinova wrote:   
   >> Lawyers for Donald J. Trump filed an appeal on Monday evening seeking   
   >> to dismiss or drastically reduce the $454 million judgment levied   
   >> against him this year in a New York civil fraud case, the latest   
   >> maneuver in the former president’s multiple legal battles.   
   >>   
   >> The filing made a raft of arguments questioning the judgment handed   
   >> down in February by Justice Arthur F. Engoron, who found that Mr.   
   >> Trump had conspired to manipulate his net worth and lied about the   
   >> value of his properties to receive more favorable terms on loans.   
   >>   
   >> The suit was brought by Attorney General Letitia James of New York, a   
   >> Democrat, who hailed her victory over Mr. Trump as having   
   >> demonstrated that “there cannot be different rules for different   
   >> people in this country.”   
   >>   
   >> In their lengthy appeal to the First Department of the State Supreme   
   >> Court’s Appellate Division, however, Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued   
   >> that many of the deals in question in Ms. James’s suit had occurred   
   >> long ago and that the statute of limitations for violations it cited   
   >> had run out.   
   >>   
   >> They also questioned the size of the judgment awarded by Justice   
   >> Engoron, calling it disproportionate and suggesting that the judge   
   >> had overcounted damages and miscalculated the profits from some of   
   >> the properties named in Ms. James’s suit.   
   >>   
   >> Taken as a whole, the appeal — peppered with talking points from   
   >> Mr. Trump’s campaign and his public criticism of the case — seeks   
   >> to show that the former president’s dealings were business as   
   >> usual, and that no harm was caused.   
   >>   
   >> “There were no victims and no losses,” the appeal reads, adding   
   >> that Mr. Trump’s business partners had “raved internally about   
   >> their business with him and were eager for more.”   
   >>   
   >> If, it added, Mr. Trump’s actions constituted fraud, “then that   
   >> word has no meaning,” and the attorney general’s “power to   
   >> seize and destroy private businesses is boundless — and   
   >> standardless.”   
   >>   
   >> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/nyregion/trump-fraud-appeal.html   
   >   
   > Rumor on the street is that the $454,000,000.00 "judgement" has been   
   > used to house illegal immigrants in 4 star hotels in "the Big Apple."   
   > The Great Replacement would otherwise have to be funded by hard   
   > working American taxpayers, which wouldn't go over well in an election   
   > year.   
   >   
   >   
   Your made-up "rumor" is a lie - that judgement money has not been paid   
   yet.   
      
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