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Letitia James, New York attorney-general, said on Wednesday she had filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for “engaging in years of financial fraud to enrich ...

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The lawsuit, filed in a New York state court in Manhattan, accused the Trump Organization of engaging in "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation" in ...

. She made the comment on the former president's online platform Truth Social. The FBI conducted a court-approved search of Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on 8 August as part of a criminal investigation into his handling of presidential records including classified material. and his daughter Ivanka Trump as defendants.

The lawsuit alleges Trump attempted to inflate his personal net worth in a bid to attract loan agreements.

"Donald Trump stands out as among the most egregious examples of this misconduct. Furthermore, James is aiming to have them banned from receiving loans from any New York registered financial institution for the same period. [READ NEXT - Donald Trump and the curious tale of the clogged White House toilet](https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/donald-trump-toilets-flushing-papers-26203573) [READ NEXT - Trump says Secret Service stopped him from marching to Capitol on 6 January](https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/trump-capitol-riots-secret-service-26661371) [READ NEXT - Capitol riots defendant believes he was 'ordered by the President to go to the Capitol'](https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/capitol-riots-defendant-believes-ordered-26716584) [READ NEXT - What happened at the Capitol riots?](https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/trump-january-6-riots-anniversary-25864683) [READ NEXT - Why Joe Rogan has refused to interview Donald Trump on his podcast multiple times](https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/joe-rogan-donald-trump-interview-27414643) [Trump family ](https://www.buzz.ie/news/politics/donald-trump-visit-ireland-doonbeg-27610887)from being in the office of any New York-based company for five years. [New York Attorney General Letitia James](https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/judge-rules-trump-two-eldest-26265496) announced that former President Donald Trump, as well as his three eldest children (Donald Jr., 38, Ivanka, 35, and Erik, 32), and the Trump Organisation, were the subject of a lawsuit stemming from a yearslong civil investigation into the practices of the company.

An attorney for Donald Trump on Wednesday called the New York attorney general's lawsuit against the former president and the Trump Organization a product ...

In Georgia, a grand jury appears to be reaching a critical point in its election-related investigation, while former Trump aides and allies have been called to testify before a grand jury probing the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. [who recently pleaded guilty to charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office,](https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-trump-organization-cfo-allen-weisselberg-to-serve-5-months-in-jail-testify-in-upcoming-criminal-trial-against-trump-organization/) is awaiting trial where he’s set to testify as part of his plea agreement with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “Claiming you have money that you do not does not amount to the art of the deal. I will remind everyone that this investigation only started after Michael Cohen, the former lawyer — his former lawyer — testified before Congress and shed light on this misconduct.” James said. James also referred the matter to federal prosecutors and the Internal Revenue Service for criminal investigation. “Today’s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law — rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General’s political agenda,” Alina Habba, a Trump attorney who has represented the former president in New York-based and Trump Organization litigation.

New York Attorney General Tish James' wide-ranging civil lawsuit against the former president, the Trump Organization and three of his adult children ...

Federal prosecutors are also hauling in former Trump aides and allies to a grand jury probing his efforts to subvert the 2020 election, and an Atlanta-area grand jury is reaching a critical phase in its own election-related probe. The former president was not charged in that case, but James said her new suit is based in part on evidence about Trump’s directives to Weisselberg to inflate various financial statements. As a result, Trump declared the apartment to be worth $327 million, an amount James said is significantly greater than any apartment ever sold in New York City. “The complaint demonstrates that Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.” “The examples I laid out are just scratching the surface of the misconduct that we have uncovered,” James said. Trump also inflated the value of “anticipated income” from golf club membership fees, she alleged. “Today’s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law – rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General’s political agenda,” said Trump attorney Alina Habba. In addition, it seeks a permanent ban on the former president and his family members involved in his business enterprises from serving as directors or officers of any New York corporation or business licensed in the state. “The pattern of fraud that was used by Mr. During her campaign, James promised to target Trump for investigation and told voters her election would bring pressure on him similar to that posed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. James’ suit relies on a special statute for repeat instances of alleged violations of the law, stemming from real estate transactions. She's also making a criminal referral to the Feds.

Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit, filed in state court in New York, is the culmination of the Democrat's three-year civil investigation into Mr Trump ...

She also seeks to permanently bar Mr Weisselberg and Mr McConney from serving in the financial control function of any New York corporation or similar business entity registered and/or licensed in New York state. She is seeking to replace the current trustees of Mr Trump’s revocable trust, which controls his business interests, with an independent trustee, to bar Mr Trump and the Trump Organisation from entering into commercial real estate acquisitions for five years, from obtaining loans from banks in New York for five years and permanently bar Mr Trump and his three eldest children from serving as an officer or director in any New York corporation or similar business entity registered and/or licensed in New York state. The goal, the attorney general’s office has said, was to burnish Mr Trump’s billionaire image and the value of his properties when doing so gave him an advantage, while playing down the value of assets at other times for tax purposes.

Judge Raymond Dearie tells ex-president's lawyers 'you can't have your cake and eat it' over reluctance to declare documents' status.

Julie Edelstein, a department of justice lawyer, said she was hopeful the department could get the documents digitized and provided to Trump’s lawyers next week. The department of justice is contesting Cannon’s requirement that it provide Dearie with classified materials, saying such records are not subject to any claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. He said the right time for the discussion is whenever Trump presses forward with a claim to get property back. Trusty said the Trump team should not be forced at this point to disclose details of a possible defense. His lawyers have consistently stopped short of that claim even as they asserted in a separate filing on Tuesday that the department of justice had not proven that the documents were classified. Though Trump’s lawyers requested the appointment of a special master, they have resisted Dearie’s request for more information about whether the seized records had been previously declassified – as Trump maintains.

A federal judge had temporarily barred the department from using the records marked as classified in its inquiry into whether the former president illegally ...

Mr. Trump “has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents,” the appeals court wrote. Trump’s attempts to claim in public — but not in court — that he had declassified the sensitive records at issue. The appeals court agreed with the Justice Department’s argument that prosecutors needed access to the classified materials in order to assist the national security review. Trump “suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president,” the appeals court wrote. The appeals court also agreed with the Justice Department that Mr. Prosecutors argued that Judge Cannon’s temporary ban on letting them use the classified materials would hinder a separate intelligence community assessment of the risks that Mr. Trump’s [request for an independent arbiter](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/us/politics/trump-special-master.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-trump-raid&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), known as a special master, to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, [appointing Judge Raymond J. The decision by the Atlanta-based court was a repudiation of the decision by Judge Aileen M. Trump appointed to the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida, to broadly intervene in the Justice Department’s investigation. Trump, blocking for now a lower court’s order that had strictly limited the investigation into Mr. WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday freed the Justice Department to resume using documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald J.

The DOJ wants to resume its review of records marked classified that were seized from Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, resort Mar-a-Lago in an FBI raid.

In a footnote, Trump's lawyers added, "The fact the documents contain classification markings does not necessarily negate privilege claims." [more than 100 documents](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/30/trump-mar-a-lago-raid-doj-opposes-special-master-request.html) with classified markings in that raid, the DOJ later revealed. But the ex-president's lawyers have not echoed that claim in court. Court documents also revealed that the FBI found four dozen [empty folders](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/trump-fbi-raid-documents-about-mar-a-lago-search-unsealed.html) marked "CLASSIFIED" during the raid. Unless Trump's lawyers could provide evidence to dispute that stance, "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it," Dearie said. As part of that ruling, Cannon temporarily stopped the DOJ from reviewing or using the seized material as part of its criminal investigation. Lawyers for Trump and the DOJ appeared in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday afternoon for a conference with the special master, U.S. 8, seeking materials showing violations of laws against obstruction of justice and the removal of official records, as well as the U.S. He was picked for the role by Trump and appointed by Cannon, who herself had been nominated by Trump. "In any event, Plaintiff's effort to raise questions about classification status is a red herring," the prosecutors argued. District Judge Aileen Cannon had authorized the appointment of the special master, an independent third party who would review the thousands of records to identify personal items and information that could be protected by various legal privileges. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit swung back at Trump's lawyers, who earlier Tuesday

The U.S. Justice Department can resume reviewing classified records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home pending appeal, ...

"[Trump]has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents," the judges wrote. Cannon, a Trump appointee herself, appointed Dearie to serve as special master in the case at Trump's request. The FBI conducted a court-approved search on Aug. A Justice Department spokesperson did not have an immediate comment. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The U.S.

"James is playing hardball," but don't expect a showy Trump trial in this case.

“I’m not sure how the government is entitled to all of it,” said Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor and asset forfeiture chief in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Yet James is taking the aggressive stance that Trump should have to fork over every penny he (and his family members) made on the whole hotel investment. However, any difference in interest rates between what Trump paid and what the AG says he should have paid doesn’t come close to that figure. claimed he had no interest in the information and it became a chapter that was largely consigned to history after the Mueller report was released. In a section dubbed “Ongoing Scheme and Conspiracy,” James’s suit notes that some of the documents seized by the FBI from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and other entities — emphasizing that “none of the investigations and inquiries … James is trying to get the suit heard by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who issued orders requiring Trump and his family members to sit for depositions in the probe. Trump were produced,” according to the lawsuit. For one thing, James only has to prove Trump’s conduct was fraudulent or illegal by a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt as would be necessary in a criminal case. Trump seems to have an even stronger incentive to compromise, since the punishing sanctions James is seeking could amount almost to a death sentence for his business empire. Trump’s lawyers have already made a settlement proposal which James turned down, but her aides said her office isn’t seeking any immediate court action against Trump, like an injunction that would swiftly drive him out of business in New York. One break for Trump: It was only a civil suit and not criminal.

The move clears the way for the justice department to assess whether criminal charges against the former president are warranted.

They have resisted providing Dearie with their position on that question, signaling the issue could be part of their defense in the event of an indictment. “In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal.” The lawyers also said the department had not yet proven that the seized documents were classified, though they notably stopped short of asserting – as Trump repeatedly has – that the records were previously declassified. The justice department had argued that a special master review of the classified documents was not necessary. Raymond Dearie, the former chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, has been named to the role, and held his first meeting on Tuesday with lawyers for both sides. In lifting a hold on a core aspect of the department’s probe, the court removed an obstacle that could have delayed the investigation by weeks, if not months.

The ruling from the three-judge panel amounts to an overwhelming victory for the department.

Judge Robin Rosenbaum was nominated by former president Barack Obama. “It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in ‘exceptionally grave damage to the national security,’” they wrote. The ruling from a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit amounts to an overwhelming victory for the Justice Department, clearing the way for investigators to continue examining the documents as they consider whether to bring criminal charges over the storage of of top-secret records at Mar-a-Lago after Mr Trump left the White House.

NEW YORK — Triple-counting the square footage of a Manhattan penthouse. Claiming his name alone added 30 percent to the value of a Florida golf club.

Yet that same year, his company reported the property was worth $107 million — “a value the Trump Organization reached using fraudulent methods,” according to “The pattern of fraud that was used by Mr. But the suit says there’s “no evidence” any such third-party evaluation occurred and alleges the firm conducted a “series of coordinated actions” to artificially push up the building’s estimated price. That’s why he didn’t build a thing in years,” one high-profile real estate executive, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity, said in an interview. The statements said there was no brand premium, but nonetheless claimed his image raised property values by 30 percent in 2013 and 2014, and 15 percent from 2015 through 2020, according to James. Claiming his name alone added 30 percent to the value of a Florida golf club.

Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr are co-defendants on the lawsuit. Karen Freifeld, Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen. September 21 2022 08:28 PM.

She said she was referring allegations of criminal wrongdoing to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the Internal Revenue Service. Its former longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, has pleaded guilty and will testify against the company. James told reporters she is seeking to have the defendants give up all the benefits he obtained from fraud, estimated at $250m. Trump is considering running again for president in 2024. The lawsuit, filed in a New York state court in Manhattan, accused the Trump Organisation of wrongdoing in preparing Trump's annual statements of financial condition from 2011 to 2021. and his daughter Ivanka Trump as defendants.

Restrictions sought by Letitia James include bans on Trump and his children that would tear his real estate empire from his control.

In the 30-year-old Trump Tower, the record sale at that time was a mere $16.5m.” The New York attorney general may not succeed in securing all the penalties. “We are confident that our judicial system will not stand for this unchecked abuse of authority.” “Trump thought he could get away with the art of the steal, but today that conduct ends.” [New York](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york) attorney general include permanent bans on Trump and his three children from serving as executives in any company in New York, a move that would tear the Trump Organization away from his personal control. [the civil fraud suit](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/trump-new-york-investigation-ivanka-donald-eric) brought by the New York state attorney general’s office against [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) and three of his adult children could potentially result in the end of the Trump Organization, his real estate empire, in its current form.

Appeals court overturns pause on investigation for 'special master' review of classified files from Mar-a-Lago.

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The court removed an obstacle that could have delayed the investigation by weeks, if not months,

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A tax-gaming tactic that former President Donald Trump is accused of using to reap millions of dollars in fraudulent tax breaks has been in the crosshairs ...

“This case shows the importance of our investments to rebuild the IRS,” he said. County golf club, though the suit didn’t put a number on how much it boosted Trump’s tax break in that instance. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a former Finance chair, have sought to crack down on those schemes. Trump has claimed conservation easements on several of his properties. “Syndicated easements have basically weaponized the technology for widespread sale. A tax-gaming tactic that former President Donald Trump is accused of using to reap millions of dollars in fraudulent tax breaks has been in the crosshairs of the IRS and lawmakers for years.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks. Despite a rocky start, former President Donald Trump and former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen got along during his ...

“I am confident that with Jay as a wise steward of the Federal Reserve, it will have the leadership it needs in the years to come.” Trump added a few words of praise for the departing Fed chair — “Janet Yellen, a wonderful woman who’s done a terrific job” — but he never explained why he had decided to dump her. Trump had called Yellen to deliver the news that he was going to choose Powell as her successor. When the conversation turned to how she ran the Fed and how the Federal Open Market Committee worked, Yellen used an analogy that she hoped the former real estate developer could relate to: “I explained to him that the FOMC was a committee. Yellen had also concluded that Trump had no intention of reappointing her but had only interviewed her as a courtesy. In reality, growth was limited to 2 to 3 percent at the time because the rate of population and productivity growth — the two key drivers of an economic expansion — were sluggish. Yellen recalled that Trump had previously met with a foreign minister from a developing nation, which was growing rapidly at the time, and asked her how rapidly the U.S. He was 64 at the time, classically handsome with a thick head of gray hair and close to six feet tall. Bush White House and later as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, during the depth of the financial crisis. Warsh, who was 47 at the time, had the opposite problem, according to a senior White House official. The financial industry surely would have responded with a resounding “Yes!” But she stood her ground and said, “Any adjustments to the regulatory framework should be modest.” He was known internationally for creating the “Taylor Rule,” a mathematical formula he argued the Fed should follow faithfully to set interest rates instead of using their personal judgment. and to a certain extent, I think she should be ashamed of herself.”

Ex-president tells Sean Hannity: 'Because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or wherever … There doesn't have to be a process'

There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be. There doesn’t have to be a process. Does that change its status?’ are so speculative that their practical meaning is negligible. Trump also told Hannity “there was nothing that was hiding” when boxes were packed to be taken to Mar-a-Lago from the White House in Washington. Some were labeled top secret. [Speaking](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-i-could-declassify-documents-by-thinking-about-it-00058212) to Sean Hannity of Fox News in an interview broadcast on Wednesday, the former US president said: “Different people say different things but as I understand it, if you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it.

The former president insisted in an interview with Sean Hannity that the documents at issue in the Mar-a-Lago probe were all declassified.

“Most of the people in the FBI, they probably voted for Trump,” the former president said. … Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents.” [a separate panel of judges](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/donald-trump-special-master-00058176) declined to accept the Trump legal team’s efforts to stop a criminal inquiry of the roughly 100 seized documents marked as classified. The comments came during a discussion of the ongoing criminal investigation of the highly sensitive documents seized by federal agents from Trump’s home and resort in Florida. “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. But, in a pre-recorded interview, he told host Sean Hannity that evidence was not needed.

New York civil lawsuit accusing Trump family of 'staggering' fraud could derail presidential bid, experts say. Plus, the case for a 'marriage sabbatical'

Abortion rights drove voters to the polls in [deep-red Kansas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/kansas-abortion-vote-state-constitution). The Democrats have passed [major legislation.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/16/biden-signs-inflation-reduction-act-landmark-healthcare-climate-bill) There has been a sharp increase in women registering to vote after the supreme court [overturned Roe v Wade](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-summary-supreme-court). While previous studies have suggested our food preferences may begin before birth, the team says the research is the first to look directly at the response of unborn babies to different flavors. Only two companies control 40% of the global commercial seed market, compared with 10 companies controlling the same proportion of the market 25 years ago, according to the ETC Group, an eco-justice organisation. The international Meanwhile, Biden said on Monday the pandemic was ending – a message that [polling suggests](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3650684-why-biden-is-seeing-a-rise-in-the-polls/) Joe Biden is [on a roll](https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/president-biden-s-approval-numbers-on-the-rise-nbc-news-poll-shows-148840517702), reclaiming some of the ground he lost earlier in his presidency. The UK’s defense ministry says Russia needs the manpower to continue its fight. These are the largest protests since Putin launched his invasion in February. Could the New York civil fraud suit bring down the Trump Organization? “He’s got too many burdens, too much baggage to be able to run again even presuming he escapes jail, he escapes bankruptcy. But the cascade of criminal, civil and congressional investigations could yet derail that bid.

New York attorney general Letitia James has announced a lawsuit, alleging business fraud, against former US president Donald Trump. “This investigation revealed ...

Asked by a conservative radio host what would happen if he was indicted over the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump replied: “I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” he told the Fox News host Sean Hannity. There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be.” Its efforts have been boosted by the parallel investigation by a House of Representatives committee, whose hearings are set to resume next week. Without all of that corruption, the entire Trump empire is involved in something like meltdown.” It’s the art of the steal,” she said.

The special master, Raymond Dearie, proposed a federal magistrate to help review Mar-a-Lago records. Dearie proposed James Orenstein, a retired magistrate, to ...

He set a Monday deadline for the government to make the documents available electronically with a spreadsheet to identify them. He set a Friday deadline for Trump and the government to agree to a vendor who will handle the documents electronically. "Any party may include a request for oral argument in its initial brief," Dearie wrote. Orenstein is a retired federal magistrate judge who holds a top secret clearance and who has experience with complex cases, reviewing documents for attorney-client privilege and serving as an appointed aide on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Dearie said in a court filing. 7, 14 and 21. [Trump is covering all the costs of the special master review](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/12/trump-doj-records-special-master/8063499001/) and Dearie gave him and the government until Saturday to comment on staffing and compensation.

A U.S. judge reviewing records seized from Donald Trump's Florida home asked the former president's lawyers on Thursday to provide any evidence casting ...

The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. The Justice Department has said more than 11,000 documents were seized, including about 100 documents marked as classified. District Judge Aileen Cannon appointed Dearie to vet the materials. Trump has called the investigation politically motivated. 30 a list of specific items in that inventory "that plaintiff asserts were not seized from the premises." 8 search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach.

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claims that the Trump Organization illegally obtained hundreds of millions of dollars by systematically ...

In 2013, for example, it valued its leasehold at 40 Wall Street, an office and retail-space building, at $530 million, despite a bank-ordered appraisal the prior year that valued it at $220 million. The complaint also alleges that, in 2016, the Trump Organization misled an outside appraiser that prepared a valuation of the Seven Springs property, which it then submitted to the Internal Revenue Service in support of an application for a conservation easement “that ultimately, and fraudulently, reduced Mr. Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and we believe that the prosecution would prevail if charges were brought.” It also doesn’t contain any suggestion that the government has any coöperating witness inside the Trump Organization who could testify about Trump’s personal culpability. “Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and cheat the system,” James said, in a statement. In 2014, the complaint says, Ivanka was granted an option to buy a penthouse at Trump Park Avenue for $14.3 million, but the apartment was valued in the Trump Organization’s 2014 “Statement of Financial Condition” at $45 million. The Wall Street Journal quoted Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, as saying that the lawsuit’s claims were meritless. One of them, Mark Pomerantz, said, in a resignation letter to Bragg that was made public, “I and others have advised you that we have evidence sufficient to establish Mr. It also says that Trump’s alleged deceptions reaped him and his co-defendants financial benefits worth up to an estimated $250 million, and asked the court to force him to repay these gains, plus interest. “In fact, the very foundation of his purported net worth is rooted in incredible fraud and illegality.” (Trump, whom Greenberg believes made the calls himself, wanted to be higher on the rich list.) According to the lawsuit, Trump’s son Eric was “taking the lead” on Seven Springs estate, a large property in Westchester County, New York—which Trump bought for $7.5 million, in 1995, but between 2011 and 2021 valued at up to $291 million.

Order by Mar-a-Lago special master is the first time Donald Trump's attorneys have been told to confirm or deny his claims that agents planted evidence or ...

They must submit all the documents to Dearie by Oct. The government must also later respond to any factual disputes that Trump’s team raises in its filings. The Justice Department would then note whether it agrees with that assertion, and Dearie would settle any disagreements between the two parties. [said on social media and in television interviews](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/22/trump-hannity-classified-documents/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7) that the FBI planted items when they searched his Mar-a-Lago residence and private club on Aug. His lawyers have not made similar assertions in court, however, instead saying they have not reviewed the seized materials and are unable to confirm whether the government’s inventory list is accurate. He also claimed to have declassified documents found in that search that were marked classified and were highly sensitive.

The Trump International golf estate is mentioned in legal action by the New York attorney general.

“We are confident that our judicial system will not stand for this unchecked abuse of authority, and we look forward to defending our client against each and every one of the attorney general’s meritless claims.” “The $267 million value attributed to those 2,500 homes accounted for more than 80 per cent of the total $327 million valuation for Aberdeen on the 2014 Statement of Financial Condition.” Mr Trump’s lawyer has described the claims as “meritless” and said attorney general Letitia James is trying to advance her own political agenda.

The lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general is the latest indication of how an array of investigations is affecting the former president's business and ...

[led to the termination](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/business/trump-media-pipe-spac.html) of that $1 billion financing deal. [ improper communications](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/business/trump-spac-digital-world.html) between representatives of Digital World and Trump Media before the special purpose acquisition company’s public offering. 6, he appeared poised to cash in on his appeal in conservative media circles, including through his social media venture — the merger of the parent company of Truth Social, his Twitter-like social media platform, with a special purpose acquisition company called Digital World Acquisition Corp. Mehta said that the plaintiffs could try to prove their case that Mr. But it also will incur a significant sum in legal fees and could face trouble with lenders and the local authorities, who might shy from doing business with a company convicted of a felony. It could take years for the case to play out in the courts, and even then, a judge would have to grant the punishments Ms. Mr. Trump and his family, including Eric Trump, of deliberately and systematically overstating the value of the company’s assets.) James is seeking to bar the Trumps from ever running a business in the state again. The company also continues to collect revenue from some of its commercial real estate projects, while many of Mr. 6 assault on the Capitol by his supporters, a possible wave of litigation that some of his advisers fear could prove extremely costly to him. Should he become a presidential candidate, he could face tight new restrictions on the personal use of money he has kept in his main political action committee and used for legal fees, Trump properties and even Melania Trump’s designer.