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Letitia James: ‘Everyone Must Play by the Same Rules’; No Precedent for Trump Case
Breitbart ^ | 02/16/2024 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 02/16/2024 4:49:04 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

New York Attorney General Letitia James welcomed Judge Arthur Engoron’s staggering $354 million fine against Donald Trump on Friday by declaring at a news conference: “Everyone must play by the same rules.”

But a review of 70 years of legal history by the Associated Press showed no precedent whatsoever for suing an entrepreneur or business for allegedly inflating real estate values when there was no victim that suffered any damage.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: arrestletitiajames; bidencrimefamily; case; dojsedition; electioninterference; james; rules; trump
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To: Jonty30
Liberals have managed to become self-funding in their desire to enslave society.

Self funding? No. We're the ones funding them with our inability to find or provide alternatives.


21 posted on 02/16/2024 5:25:04 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Boycott anything that has to do with NYC...products, people, shows. travel to, movies, books, and anything else that is produced there. NY needs to feel the pain of letting these two people to target and persecute an American that all he has done was oppose their ideas.


22 posted on 02/16/2024 5:30:26 PM PST by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

two tiered justice system, it seems the KKK kill the Jews Democrats have brought back Jim Crow Justice, but this time they are taking aim at conservatives and for old times sake Jews.


23 posted on 02/16/2024 5:31:27 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can hear Ayn Rand giggling from the great beyond!


24 posted on 02/16/2024 5:35:52 PM PST by rebelskid
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To: Metrobank

on the other hand just wait until Trump declares the new valuation of Mara lago for tax purposes. should be interesting.


25 posted on 02/16/2024 5:53:05 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anyone in NY who ever fudged the numbers on a mortgage application and later turned over the property for a tidy profit needs to understand that this could be them. If the state needs some extra cash for, say, migrant benefits, I would suggest a bounty system be set up. :-)


26 posted on 02/16/2024 6:46:20 PM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Soros has a factory churning out criminal idiots like LaSquisha James and Big Fat Fani.
27 posted on 02/16/2024 6:54:03 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She must think that she is getting a piece of the action.


28 posted on 02/16/2024 7:10:50 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Everyone must play by the same rules.”

Except for this creature


29 posted on 02/16/2024 7:16:18 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

who were the victims?

how’d the DA have standing to bring the case?

how is this not just NY political hacks attacking someone that is no longer in office?


30 posted on 02/16/2024 7:33:30 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since a lot of horrible people are in positions of authority based on Kolor, kink, and Kin... and not on merit - we need a law stating government officials can not read statements written by others - or by themselves.

A half page of notes can be allowed.

It was sickening listen to that idiot Letitia James read a statement written by someone else that made her sound intelligent. Well, kind of intelligent considering what she was saying wasn’t rational.


31 posted on 02/16/2024 7:47:19 PM PST by GOPJ (Mayorkas reeks of that 'CIA (Creepy Thug Assh*le') mentality. Ashli Babbit's killer was promoted..)
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To: Jonty30

That’s not how you spell commie.

There’s nothing remotely democratic about them, and they ain’t actual liberals in the slightest.


32 posted on 02/16/2024 8:03:03 PM PST by curious7
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To: TexasGator

That value came from county property appraiser.


My house and five acres is assessed at something like $14,000. Zillow says I can sell it for $225,000. I believe this is common practice here. I have no idea how it works in Florida.


33 posted on 02/16/2024 8:15:10 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t look at me... We should have cleared leather and started stacking bodies years ago...


34 posted on 02/16/2024 8:22:02 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: hanamizu

“My house and five acres is assessed at something like $14,000. Zillow says I can sell it for $225,000. I believe this is common practice here. I have no idea how it works in Florida.”

What is your appraised value?

However, Mar-A-Lago is not a home. It is a private club. Members can stay the club but only for a limited number of days.


35 posted on 02/16/2024 8:24:36 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Metrobank

Anyone who believes this judge just has to look at the “value” he placed on Mar-a-Lago at $18MM.


The judge didn’t give that value. The County assessor in Florida assessed the property at an adjusted value of $18 million.

That said, what the judge did do was accept that the adjusted tax value is an appraisal of the actual value of the property...which is absurd, especially when considering the appraisal discount for the way the property was being zoned.


36 posted on 02/16/2024 10:23:16 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: beef

What fudge? This was several different numbers each created for different purposes. The tax code has an *adjusted* assessed value for collecting taxes. Trump has a value for which he believes he can potentially sell the property at his leisure. The bank has a value for which *they* believe they could rapidly sell the property under distressed conditions.

That these are all different numbers doesn’t represent fudging at all. They are for different purposes and pretending one is another is idiocy at its most charitable, and malicious fraud will a less charitable interpretation of the judge’s actions.


37 posted on 02/16/2024 10:28:32 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Gaffer

Re: 18 - I stay in contact with a county judge back in NY by way of a family acquaintance. The judge, a Democrat, was shocked by Engoron’s courtroom comments, demeanor and that such a fine was even issued. He opined that he believes the fine will be substantially reduced on appeal.


38 posted on 02/16/2024 10:36:18 PM PST by Fury
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So, Tish, what is the next New York real estate company that you're going to hold to this standard of appraisals?

-PJ

39 posted on 02/16/2024 10:39:04 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hope the find something on this bitch just like fani


40 posted on 02/17/2024 2:52:09 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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