There have been many twists and turns throughout the course of the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump, which began in September 2022 when New York Attorney General Letitia James filed the suit claiming that Trump and his family “enriched themselves through fraud.”
My colleague Joe Cunningham wrote that “…:James accused the former president, his family, and his organization of “persistent and repeated business fraud.”
The civil lawsuit, filed Wednesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, seeks a $250 million judgment and a prohibition on any of the Trumps leading a company in the state of New York.
Among other allegations, the suit claims that the former president’s Florida estate and golf resort, Mar-a-Lago, was valued as high as $739 million, but should have been valued at around one-tenth that amount, at $75 million. The suit says that higher valuation…
