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Hochul tells NY businesses not to fear about Trump verdict: ‘Nothing to worry about’
TheHill ^ | 02/18/2024

Posted on 02/18/2024 5:45:14 AM PST by devane617

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) addressed New York business owners in a new interview and told them there was “nothing to worry about” after former President Trump was hit with a $355 million fine and the inability to conduct business in New York for three years.

Hochul joined John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM where she was asked if other New York businesspeople should be worried that if “they can do that to the former president, they can do that to anybody.”

“I think that this is really an extraordinary unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior,” Hochul responded.

A New York judge on Friday ordered Trump to pay the massive sum in penalties in a civil fraud case. The decision came just weeks after closing arguments wrapped up a months-long trial after New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued Trump for alleging he falsely altered his net worth to receive tax and insurance benefits.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billofattainder; corruption; democratmaximus; hochul; joesdemocrats; newyork; newyoure; nyc
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To: devane617

IOW, they’d better start worrying.


41 posted on 02/18/2024 6:21:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: devane617

Did she really think that this would calm fears? I doubt it....even when considering who said it the statement seems designed to have the opposite effect.


42 posted on 02/18/2024 6:22:28 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: devane617

Shows she’s getting worried.

The Wall Street Journal had an editorial pointing out how this could discourage businesses from setting up branches in NY - just in case they might run afoul of some politician’s agenda.

(Both the NY State Attorney General and the head of the NY State Senate Judiciary Committee ran on platforms advocating “getting” Trump.)


43 posted on 02/18/2024 6:22:32 AM PST by RAldrich
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To: devane617

If anyone living in NY, is the least bit conservative, get out while you can, business owner or citizen.

Same with any other blue state. It’s a time for choosing. You’re supporting the enemy with sales tax, state added utility fees, fuel tax. Further, you’re supporting businesses that pay taxes to the state.

I don’t care about your history. I grew up in MA and the earliest in my surname line goes back to 1630. We have ancestral lines going back to 12 of the Mayflower passengers and my paternal grandparents are buried in the same cemetery as Pilgrims.

I live in MO now and you couldn’t pay me enough to go back to MA. It’s not what it once was and will never return.


44 posted on 02/18/2024 6:23:51 AM PST by Pollard (Hi)
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To: devane617

‘ESSENTIAL’ FEDERAL SPENDING BILL

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The Treasury shall withhold all payments to the State of New York and its political subdivisions and operating entities.


45 posted on 02/18/2024 6:25:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: devane617

Note to businesses everywhere:

First they came for Trump...


46 posted on 02/18/2024 6:25:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Pollard

There is no red state in the nation.

We are not voting-with-our-feet our way out of this.


47 posted on 02/18/2024 6:26:40 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: billorites

I hope President Trump refuses to send any help at all to
to them no good ungrateful yankees.


48 posted on 02/18/2024 6:27:53 AM PST by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: tlozo

He didn’t overvalue his property


49 posted on 02/18/2024 6:31:18 AM PST by stanne
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To: devane617

Just PROVES IT WAS TO DESTROY TRUMP!


50 posted on 02/18/2024 6:33:02 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: devane617
“I think that this is really an extraordinary unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior,”

Tacit admission that it's all a bill of attainder.

51 posted on 02/18/2024 6:33:40 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons... )
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To: allendale

Did JAMES go to the White House?


52 posted on 02/18/2024 6:38:20 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: devane617

The governor could have said something positive about Trump, considering all the wealth he has created for NY City and State.


53 posted on 02/18/2024 6:39:55 AM PST by firebrand
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To: armourenthusiast
In his Michigan rally speech last night PDJT, without actually coming out and saying it, encouraged businesses to get the hell out of New York if they know what’s good for them.

I hope he keeps it up, with maximum effect.

54 posted on 02/18/2024 6:41:14 AM PST by daler
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To: Pollard

Rich New Yorkers (except maybe doctors and lawyers) should flee.

As for the rest, you’ll wind up renting your house from the teachers’ union, but their rents (paid via property tax) are effectively capped by rents elsewhere in the USA.


55 posted on 02/18/2024 6:44:01 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: devane617

Cuz we are only prosecuting this type of crime because it’s Trump. We won’t bother you if you don’t run for President.


56 posted on 02/18/2024 6:52:09 AM PST by vivenne (⁹)
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To: devane617

Financial firms should exit New York while their employees can sell off houses to New York doctors and lawyers.


57 posted on 02/18/2024 6:52:30 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: From The Deer Stand

They may also have gone too far with the laws on rent increases. There are apparently many, many apartments sitting empty because the landlords can’t afford to fix them up for re-rental. Just maybe, the law passed in 2019 was too heavily weighted in favor of the tenants—so heavily that it is actually ending up hurting them.


58 posted on 02/18/2024 6:53:34 AM PST by firebrand
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To: devane617

“the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers”

Who decides that? Oh...a judge. All of a sudden, you’re declared to have committed fraud by somebody that doesn’t know what they’re talking about.


59 posted on 02/18/2024 6:55:50 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: devane617

Make sure you and each member of your household has a passport with at least a year on it if you are well-to-do or outspoken.


60 posted on 02/18/2024 6:56:07 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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