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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I think basic intelligence is foreign to her as well.
Dear Mikey and Bernie, think it through….now why do YOU think he’s not in cuffs
Why isn’t Hillary?
Why isn’t Bill?
Why isn’t Podesta(s)
Why isn’t Berger (Dead)
Why isn’t Joe?
Why isn’t Hunter?
Why isn’t Soros?
Why isn’t Comey?
Why isn’t Page?
Why isn’t Schiff?
Why isn’t Nadler?
Why isn’t Waters?
Why isn’t Pelosi?
Why isn’t Schumer?
Why isn’t Swalwell?
BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE A “D” after their name.
“Potential” crime? Utterly meaningless. The author getting into his car is a “potential” crime. The author taking a dump is a “potential” crime.
Strangely enough it was Mark Levin who suggested this tactic to be used against public officials by private citizens about a year ago when they refuse to follow the law. It was becoming effective. Now they are using it to ruin people and their friends, peers, family, and associates over their political views. And yes the left sees that as criminal. You may not serve time but you will be stripped of your assets.
This would be the appropriate time to use the worn out ill used word Alleged...
If Trump defrauded the banks why aren’t they suing him instead of the NY AG?
Trump values property by its likely potential.
The bank values property based on what it can reliably get at a forced sale.
If you work hard to sell property, you will be able to get more for it.
Hard work pays. That concept may be foreign to a NYC Democratic politician, but it is a fact.
The two morons who wrote this fairytale were probably jerking each other off at the time.
Letitia is a Soros AG in the state of NY. If she had anything good on him she’d use the power of her office to take him down.
Should hack writers posing as journalists be beaten with wet noodles?
(See how the clickbait headline game is played?)
Not very complicated. There is no legal or factual basis for criminal charges. Anyone with a filing fee can file a civil lawsuit.
Just remember... You can indict a Ham Sandwich.... They will try.
The biggest fraud is the 222-page document itself.
If you have a good case, a few pages should do the trick.
“New York’s attorney general says her three-year investigation of former President Donald Trump uncovered potential crimes...”
I wonder why AP didn’t include that bit of background in their story.
Sigh.....someone who writes this drivel should not be allowed to unless they understand the fundamentals of what they're writing about. But then, if we relied on “educated” liberals, who would write their hit pieces.
And for the record, my background is accounting and law.
They say it is virtuous to hate Trump and his followers.
“NY probe found potential crimes. Why isn’t Trump in cuffs?”
Because it’s not (yet) a crime to think and speak differently from you. Much as you wish that were the case
Michael and Bernard?
“Potential crimes”? Can you imagine spending three years of your life trying to find a potential crime someone may or may not have done...with all this time invested so far you’d think something but there’s nothing.
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