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N.Y. AG calls for $370M fine against Trump and lifetime ban from real estate industry
Attorneys from James’ office requested the punishment in post-trial motions filed Friday in the Trump fraud case.
Attorney General Letitia James
during the 2024 State of the State at the Governor's office in New York City on Jan. 2, 2024.
Attorney General Letitia James, at the governor's office in New York City on Tuesday. Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images
Jan. 5, 2024, 2:51 PM AST / Updated Jan. 5, 2024, 3:10 PM AST
By Adam Reiss, Lisa Rubin and Rebecca Shabad
New York Attorney General Letitia James is calling for a $370 million fine against former President Donald Trump and his companies and a lifetime ban on him and two of his former company executives from the real estate industry in the state.
Attorneys from James' office requested the punishment in post-trial motions filed Friday in the Trump fraud case. They said that Trump owes $168 million of interest allegedly saved through fraud; $152 million from the sale of the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., the site of one of Trump's hotels; $60 million through the transfer of the Ferry Point Golf Course contract; and $2.5 million from severance agreements for former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Howard Weisselberg and ex-Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney.
James also called for lifetime bans for Trump, Weisselberg and McConney from participation in the real estate industry as well as from serving as officers or directors in New York corporations or entities. The attorney general also asked for five-year bans for Trump's eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, with the same conditions.
The summary judgment in the case found the former president, his company and top executives liable for repeated and persistent fraud in preparing and certifying as true Trump’s statements of financial condition, which were falsely inflated by between $812 million and $2.2 billion.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the case, calling the law the lawsuit a partisan “witch hunt,” and has vowed to appeal the judge's ruling.
James’ office said that Trump and the others committed illegal acts with the intention to defraud and reaped millions in ill-gotten gains. The sum she is seeking is well over the $250 million that she had initially estimated in 2022 that Trump and his business should pay in damages.
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Adam Reiss
Adam Reiss is a reporter and producer for NBC and MSNBC.
Lisa Rubin
Lisa Rubin is a former litigator and an MSNBC legal analyst.
Rebecca Shabad
Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
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