- Letitia James won a $454 million judgment against Trump, his penalty for a decade of fraud.
- She and Trump are now fighting over her claims that he withheld evidence from her fraud probe.
- NY law lets James seek additional fines if evidence that she subpoenaed was lost or destroyed.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is not content to rest on her $454 million civil fraud trial victory, even as Trump’s debt to the state keeps snowballing, growing by a punishing $5 million in interest since February.
No, James still has some unfinished Trump business on her calendar.
She is asking hard questions about the $175 million bond that would safeguard at least some of what Trump owes New York while he appeals losing the trial. A hearing on the bond’s financial soundness is set for Monday, April 22.
And James is also intent on holding Trump’s feet to the fire, along with the feet of his lawyers, over something her office has complained about for four years: the withholding of evidence.
We do we reward incompetence.
Like if the bond isnt up to snuff, why can’t Letitia’s lawyers write it for them? Oh you fucked it up, here, we don’t reward incompetence, well let your persecution do it. Fuck you and your stupid games.
To be fair, it absolutely works the other way around. In countless towns and cities the upwardly clambering assistant DAs are screwing over people who have no money, piling on twenty, thirty charges for the same act to score points they plan to cash in for a bigger job.
Every day. Right now, in fact. Prison reform is critical, but the Justice system itself could use some patching up from countless decades of conservative fuckery.