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Business Crime

New York AG May Impose ‘Corporate Death’ On The Trump Organization

Letitia James is the Attorney General for the state of New York, and that makes her one of the most powerful prosecutors in the country, especially since she’s making it clear that she intends to “use every area of the law” as she investigates the president, his family, and his business, as NBC News has reported:

“New York law allows the attorney general to seek restitution and damages — and, in extreme cases, dissolution — if a business is found to have engaged in persistent fraud. There’s also the Martin Act, a 1921 statute designed to protect investors.

“Past attorneys general have used the Martin Act, considered to be the U.S.’s toughest such state statute in this realm, to expand their powers in the financial crimes sector. The law empowers the attorney general to subpoena witnesses and documents for information pertaining to possible fraud.”

 


As many crimes as the Trump Organization is suspected of having committed (Trump University was just the tip of the iceberg, experts say), AG James could use a legal sledgehammer as she goes about bringing charges against the president’s company, which just so happens to be run by his two eldest sons, Don Jr. and Eric. And that could prove especially catastrophic for the Trump business empire. The power wielded by James under the laws of New York could even be used for a “judgment of corporate death” if she chooses to seek the total dismantling Trump’s holdings in real estate and other businesses.

 


The New York AG has already signaled the direction she plans to pursue, at least initially, having subpoenaed banks that do business with Trump as a way of seeing inside the Trump Organization and Trump’s bank accounts.

Something James told MSNBC host Ari Melber should be of special concern to the president and anyone with connections to the Trump Organization:

“Most of (Trump’s) business activities are performed in New York, he engages in business in New York, he operates in New York and it’s really critically important that New Yorkers as taxpayers — it’s really critically important that we understand and know whether or not he devalued his corporations and he received some tax benefits thereof, that he engaged in false claims against New Yorkers.”

 


Letitia James is going after Trump on numerous fronts. But it’s her investigation of the Trump Organization that could well pose the greatest legal danger to him.

 

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Donald Trump WTF?!

Trump Says Fictional Serial Killer Hannibal Lecter Loves Him During Unhinged Iowa Rally

Disgraced former president Donald Trump said during a campaign rally in Iowa Saturday that fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter has expressed his “love” for him and that means that he also “loves” the non-existent murderer.

During the speech, Trump was critical of allowing immigrants into the United States, suggesting that people were coming to the U.S. from “insane asylums,” which led him to add:

“Hannibal Lecter, how great an actor was he?”

“You know why I like him? Because he said on television on one of the – ‘I love Donald Trump.’ So I love him. I love him. I love him. He said that a long time ago and once he said that, he was in my camp, I was in his camp. I don’t care if he was the worst actor, I’d say he was great to me.”

So Anthony Hopkins said he loves Donald Trump? As HuffPost notes, Hopkins never said that, and neither did any of the other actors who have portrayed Lecter.

Hopkins, who was born in Wales and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, told The Guardian that he doesn’t care for Trump and explained that he doesn’t vote because he doesn’t “trust anyone.”

“We’ve never got it right, human beings. We are all a mess, and we’re very early in our evolution,” the actor said in 2018.

Here’s a thought: Let’s send Trump to prison and he can look for Dr. Lecter while he’s serving 20 to life.

 

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GOP Joe Biden

Tommy Tuberville’s Betrayal Of The Military Costs Alabama A Shot At Space Command HQ

Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville appears to have cost his state a major economic boost as President Joe Biden has chosen to leave the prestigious Space Command headquarters in Colorado.

Space Command, which was created in the Trump administration, had been promised by the disgraced ex-president to Alabama, but Biden decided today that the force will state in Colorado, which is a $1 billion boon to the Centennial State’s economy.

NBC News reports that the decision was announced by Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder:

“Today, following a thorough and deliberate evaluation process, and after consultation with (Defense) Secretary (Lloyd) Austin and weighing the input of senior military leaders, President Biden notified the Department of Defense that he has selected Colorado Springs as the permanent location of the U.S. Space Command Headquarters.”

Did Tuberville’s refusal to allow military promotions to go forward in order to solidify his anti-choice credentials play a role in the decision? Almost certainly, NBC notes.

NBC News first reported in May that the Biden administration was reconsidering plans to move Space Command headquarters to Alabama partly because the state has imposed a near total ban on abortion. White House officials have denied Alabama’s restrictive abortion law was a factor in their review.

Members of the Alabama GOP congressional delegation said they would fight the decision, but it seems unclear what they can do, despite Rep. Mike Rogers, chair of the House Armed Services Committee whining, “This is far from over.” He added that “far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision.”

However, as commander-in-chief, Biden makes all final decisions on the military, so Rogers might as well get over himself.

 

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Donald Trump

Why Did Trump Suddenly Abandon His New York Fraud Trial? Mary Trump Explains

On Wednesday, failed former president Donald Trump acted like a petulant toddler and suddenly decided he would no longer attend the ongoing New York fraud trial that could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and penalties.

Business Insider reports:

“I’d rather be right now in Iowa,” Trump said in a parting shot to reporters at the start of the lunch break, midway through the trial’s first week.

“I’m stuck here because I have a corrupt attorney general who communicates with the Justice Department to keep me busy,” he said, leaving the third-floor courtroom, where the future of his real-estate empire is set to be decided over the next two to three months.

What prompted the disgraced one-term, twice-impeached ex-head of state to suddenly leave the proceedings after two days of scowling and threatening comments about the presiding judge?

According to the Donald’s niece, Mary Trump, it’s all about the embarrassment.

Writing on her Substack newsletter, she noted:

“He showed up in New York voluntarily because he knew how important this fraud trial is not only to his reputation but to the core of his own beliefs about who he is.”

“He left because he knew nothing he did—the pouting, the angry stares, the media hits—was working.”

“That plus the humiliation of falling off the Forbes 400 were too much for him to take.”

Trump had also said that he would testify at some point in the trial, though that seems highly unlikely. Even if he does, it’s likely he’ll cling to his Fifth Amendment privilege and refuse to say anything for fear it would open him up to even more charges.

Absolutely nothing is going well for Trump right now. He’s on the verge of being flat broke and possibly headed to prison. No wonder he doesn’t want to show his face in public.

 

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Capitol Insurrection Crime GOP

Eric Swalwell Draws A Direct Line Between Jim Jordan’s Sex Scandal And His Actions On Jan. 6

For years, scandal has surrounded Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who has yet to fully explain why when he was an assistant coach on the Ohio State University wrestling team in the mid-1990s he failed to report that sexual abuse of young athletes was being committed by the team doctor, Richard Strauss. Strauss killed himself in 2005 and is believed to have abused at least 177 students from 1979 to 1996.

And now Jordan is at the center of yet another scandal, and this one could well cost him his political career and result in him being charged with crimes against the United States for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

One of Jordan’s colleagues, Rep. Eric Swalwell, says there’s a connection between the Ohio Republican’s actions at Ohio State and his alleged coordination with members of the Trump administration who attempted to orchestrate a coup on the 6th of January.

During an appearance on MSNBC, Swalwell noted:

“I’m not a Harvard lawyer. But the way that he has talked about his involvement certainly makes him look — the way that he is now moonwalk-ing away from responsibilities as to why — probably makes him complicit. This is an incident of workplace violence. Let us just step back. In any workplace — if this has happened. If you worked with contact with someone who is responsible for the workplace violence. If you did nothing wrong and you had nothing to do with it. You would raise your hand and say, let me help make this safer.”

Swalwell then added that Jordan’s refusal to speak to the House 1/6 Select Committee without being subpoenaed is the same sort of thing he did at Ohio State:

“The fact that he does not want to cooperate, I think, puts him in the category of the people who had some knowledge of what Trump wanted to do. And, by the way, Lawrence, this guy has priors. This is not the first time he has been accused of witnessing a crime and not wanting to report it or help investigators.”

 

Jim Jordan allegedly enabled the actions of sexual predator even though he could have reported what he knew and protected other students. And now he’s an enabler of a plot to overthrow the elected government of the United States. Both are disgusting and abhorrent, and it’s time that Jordan paid for his refusal to speak when others were in danger.