Well, what a shock. Trump and his family are crooked. Who’d have guessed?
Donald Trump committed fraud as he built his real estate empire, New York judge rules
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/trump-liable-fraud-new-york
Celebrating the zen of Finding Out
Not sure if it’s been posted, but this is the judgement, and it contains some real gems –
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-judges-ruling/ce6de7d636227e1b/full.pdf
Example –
“As Chico Marx, playing Chicolini, says to Margaret Dumont, playing Mrs. Gloria Teasdale, in “Duck Soup ” well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
😂😃😁
I remember reading about the Atlanta casino bankruptcy, and how he robbed his staff.
That was when I first learned of trump. A Mother Jones article about it –
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-atlantic-city-bankruptcy/
“When pressed about the multiple bankruptcies at his Atlantic City casinos, Donald Trump routinely says the episodes highlight his business acumen. He made out well, he claims, at the expense only of his greedy Wall Street financiers. “These lenders aren’t babies,” he said during a Republican primary debate last fall. “These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people that you think, okay?”
Yet among those who suffered as a result of Trump’s bankruptcies were his own casino employees, who collectively lost millions of dollars in retirement savings when the company’s value plummeted.”
How can these people say with a straight face nobody was hurt.
Trump still owes $300 million for his casino bankruptcy. Who pays for that? We do.
Not to mention increased insurance premiums due to his fraud.
The judge is wrong saying nobody was hurt. Everyone was and are still paying.
Officer why did you stop me driving at 300km/h? I didn’t hurt anyone….
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“Exacerbating defendants’ obstreperous conduct is their continued reliance on bogus arguments, in papers and oral argument,” Engoron wrote. “In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies …”
The judge added: “That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”
I like Judge Engoron .