Posted on 09/22/2022 6:09:23 PM PDT by Kevin in California
New York’s attorney general says her three-year investigation of former President Donald Trump uncovered potential crimes in the way he ran his real estate empire, including allegations of bank and insurance fraud. So why isn’t Trump being prosecuted? Attorney General Letitia James didn’t seek to slap handcuffs on the Republican this week, as some of his critics hoped. Instead, she announced a civil lawsuit seeking $250 million and his permanent banishment from doing business in the state. Like many things involving the law and Trump, the reasons James, a Democrat, opted for a lawsuit rather than a prosecution are complicated. For one, even if she did want to prosecute Trump, she doesn’t have jurisdiction under state law to bring a criminal case against him or any of the lawsuit's other defendants, including the Trump Organization and his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump. In New York, the state attorney general’s office is only allowed to prosecute a limited range of offenses on its own, like bid rigging and payroll violations. Otherwise, the office must partner with a county district attorney on a prosecution — as James' office did with the Manhattan district attorney's office in a case against Trump's longtime finance chief — or obtain what’s known as a criminal referral from the governor or a state agency that has jurisdiction over the alleged wrongdoing.
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Also, can someone here tell me who (or business entity) was harmed financially in this fraudulent lawsuit? Maybe I was sick that day.
A lot of news stories nowadays contain words like “potential” or “possibly” when they are written about certain topics.
Drooling leftie alert.
The left is insane with hate for Trump. They have not given him a moment of peace since he announced.
If there was insurance fraud the guy would be behind bars. they don’t mess around.
My advice is not to post articles from the AP - it is trash.
It’s a pretty gross violation of ethics rules for James to claim someone violated criminal laws without actually charging that person with violation of those laws.
But ethics is a foreign concept to her.
He isn’t in cuffs because Americans have always kick you commies asses.
“If there was insurance fraud the guy would be behind bars. they don’t mess around.”
Same with the banks. I think they would want to know what was going on if there was suspicion of fraud. I wonder if President Trump has a libel case against these people.
Potential
Cuffs.
POTENTIAL
But lets put him in cuffs.
*shakeshead*
Why isn’t he in cuffs? Because there were *no* crimes. If there were that obsessed Maoist whore would have filed charges.
Next question!
Hunter has committed felonies in all 50 states why isn’t he in cuffs.. seriously for the left they are so miserable they think by getting rid of trump it will give them happiness it won’t they will still be miserable sacks of crap
Potential crime?
They would want someone cuffed for a potential crime?
Wow. The AP
Excellent QUESTION:
“Why do liberals hate the fact that Trump gave us 4 years of peace, energy independence, affordable groceries, and a safer America?” - Beowulf9
This is the NY AGs version of the Russian collusion fiasco. Baseless political hit job.
Their policies are a hard sell if people are prosperous.
The walls are closing in! For the 281st time.
This case is about forcing a settlement. It is a civil one so much lower proof standard. Trump has already tried to settle it. He will try again and will end up with something the libs will use rhetorically. But no jail time.
The document case is far more threatening to him, especially with his clown lawyers like that bimbo Habba Habba.
This article is a potential crime.
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