Who exactly is the victim of this “crime“?
Based on the last paragraphs of the article, it was the state paperwork gods.
Seems that the NYS AG has found a new field for state criminal prosecutions: overstatement of assets on approved applications for loans that didn’t default and were paid off in time.
Must be tens of thousands of similar cases just waiting for the attorney generals’s attention.
Hopefully, appellate justices more interested in justice (quaint that) than politics will overturn the case. Especially when the state’s proposed remedy for paying off the loan on time is $200+ million in fines and loss/suspension of the Trump organization’s NYS business licenses.