{"id":1651298,"date":"2022-09-21T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651298"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:53:42","slug":"trump-lawyers-respond-after-new-york-ag-announces-massive-lawsuit-against-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-respond-after-new-york-ag-announces-massive-lawsuit-against-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lawyers Respond After New York AG Announces Massive Lawsuit Against Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-lawyers-respond-after-new-york-ag-announces-massive-lawsuit-against-company%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651298&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-letitia-james\">Letitia James<\/a> on Wednesday filed (<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22670311\/nyag-v-trump-et-al.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) a civil lawsuit against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, the Trump Organization, three of his children, and others over alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Trump, Alina Habba, disputed the attorney general\u2019s lawsuit and described Wednesday\u2019s legal action as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law\u2014rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General\u2019s political agenda,\u201d Habba told news outlets after the lawsuit was announced. \u201cIt is abundantly clear that the Attorney General\u2019s Office has exceeded its statutory authority by prying into transactions where absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Habba said Trump is confident that \u201cthis unchecked abuse of authority\u201d will be shot down and \u201clook forward to defending our client against each and every one of the Attorney General\u2019s meritless claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars,\u201d James, a Democrat, said at a press conference on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a 200-page lawsuit, James\u2019s office alleged that the fraud touched all aspects of the Trump family business, including golf courses and other properties. The suit further claimed that the Trump Organization deceived insurers, tax officials, and lenders by allegedly inflating the value of his properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese acts of fraud and misrepresentation were similar in nature, were committed by upper management at the Trump Organization as part of a common endeavor for each annual Statement, and were approved at the highest levels of the Trump Organization\u2014including by Mr. Trump himself,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p> Other Details <\/p>\n<p>Other than the former president, his children\u00a0Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump are also named as defendants in the suit.\u00a0Allen Weisselberg, the former CFO for the Trump Organization, and Jeff McConney, another executive, were also named in the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Weisselberg pleaded guilty in August to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday filed (pdf) a civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, three of his children, and others over alleged fraud. A lawyer for Trump, Alina Habba, disputed the attorney general\u2019s lawsuit and described Wednesday\u2019s legal action as politically motivated. \u201cToday\u2019s filing is neither focused on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}