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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 12:35 AM Feb 2022

New York's AG thinks Trump fraud is a family affair. What's past is prologue.

TFG and his family are all grifters and con artist.




New York Attorney General Letitia James released a court filing Tuesday outlining what she believes to be a pattern of fraud perpetrated by the Trump Organization and specifically Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. James’ civil investigation is running parallel to a criminal investigation the Manhattan district attorney’s office is conducting into the Trump Organization’s activities; between the two, it seems that the Trump family may finally face some type of accountability for what prosecutors allege amounts to years of malfeasance and corruption. (A spokesperson for the Trump Organization said "the allegations are baseless and will be vigorously defended”; lawyers for Ivanka and Donald Jr. say they will continue to fight James’ investigation.)

That the Trumps are in hot water again isn’t surprising. What’s more surprising is that they haven’t faced any consequences before now. The former president’s business empire has a history of misrepresentation to lenders, government agencies and the public, and this isn’t his first experience with law enforcement. (The Trump Organization settled with the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Unit in 1998 after it determined that the company had broken anti-money laundering laws.) This history of dealing with law enforcement actually goes back even further. The federal government accused Trump; his father, Fred; and Trump Management of racial discrimination in housing because they refused to rent apartments to Black people. (The Trumps settled.)

This is also not the first time Trump has been investigated for allegations of fraud. It’s not even the first time Ivanka and Don Jr. have been investigated for allegations of fraud.

Let’s start with Donald Sr., though. SPY magazine, a New York-centric satirical monthly publication that folded in 1998, often covered Trump as a kind of recurring New York City character. It portrayed him the way much of the media did at the time — as a “venal puppet” and a “buffoon” — but it also noted that his image as a kind of developer clown protected him from real scrutiny, a pattern that was repeated when he ran for president.....

The Trump brand isn’t doing so well right now, of course. It’s increasingly associated with the family’s liabilities: accusations of mismanagement and misrepresenting assets, on top of a familywide predisposition to lie extensively and often.


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New York's AG thinks Trump fraud is a family affair. What's past is prologue. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 OP
Poor Gums. smirkymonkey Feb 2022 #1
This will be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #2
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