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AG Letitia James has warned she will start confiscating his wealth and property and selling it off. AG Letitia James told ABC. “If he does not have funds to pay off the judgement, then we will seek judgement enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James told ABC, according to the Daily Express and other outlets. “We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers,” James said, “and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day,” she added, referring to a Trump-owned property near her...

Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump says rival Ted Cruz's image as a champion of the everyday American doesn't square with the two $500,000 loans he failed to disclose from big banks to fund his 2012 Senate campaign. "He's being a great hypocrite, wouldn't you think?" Trump said Saturday at a Portsmouth, N.H., rally. "You know, he talks about he's going to be Robin Hood, he's protecting, then it finds out on his personal disclosure form he didn't disclose that he's borrowing a lot of money from Goldman Sachs," he continued. Trump said Cruz's claims that the lack of disclosure was...

While all Eyes are on Greece, Italy’s Banks are Drowning in Bad Debt The real danger to the euro area probably doesn’t emanate from Greece, but from two of its heavyweights, namely France and Italy. A small note in the European press reminds us that all is not well in at least one of these countries, least of all with its banks (currently this is only a “page 16 story”, but it has great potential to eventually move to the front page). Regional distribution of non-performing loans in Italy The note reads as follows:  “Rome – because of the recession of recent...

Should illegal immigrants be eligible for home loans?

MEXICO CITY - A U.S. warning about violence along the border in Mexico created unexpected friction with a crucial neighbor Thursday, just as new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) and other new members of President Bush (news - web sites)'s team are starting to take office. The blunt warning was issued because of an upswing of killings and kidnappings linked to battles between drug gangs in towns along the Mexican side of the border, but Mexico's top Cabinet officer, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, insisted that the warning "went too far." -- snip -- U.S. State Department...

<p>A Sacramento judge ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday to stop raising money to repay a $4.5 million bank loan to his recall election campaign account, saying that it's likely the financing maneuver will be ruled illegal.</p> <p>Sacramento Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster's ruling came in a lawsuit that contends Schwarzenegger violated Proposition 34's campaign finance limits when he secured the loan from a bank and then lent the money to his campaign for governor.</p>