good morning. It’s Thursday. We take a look at the New York Attorney General’s case against former President Donald Trump. We also look at a baseball team that doesn’t follow Aaron Judge’s rules.
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This is a lawsuit that spells out in stunning detail what the New York Attorney General has called a “astonishing” fraud by Donald Trump, his family business, and his three children. He said Trump’s annual financial statements amounted to an anthology of lies, claiming he overestimated them by as much as $100 million.
Attorney General Letitia James has moved to bar the Trumps from doing business in New York again.
The lawsuit alleges that Trump and his business violated several state criminal statutes and also “plausibly” violated federal criminal law. However, she said she referred her findings to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the Internal Revenue Service.
She is seeking an order to force the defendants to confiscate $250 million, which the defendants raised through “repeated and persistent fraud,” the lawsuit says.
And she moved to block Trump from buying commercial real estate in New York for five years, or from applying for a loan from any financial institution “licensed or registered” with the state for the same period.
James highlighted the scale of the fraud in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan’s Supreme Court. ,” the lawsuit said, adding that 11 annual financial statements Trump filed between 2011 and 2021 had 200 “false and misleading” ratings.
James said Trump overstated the value of the 40 Wall Street skyscraper, which was worth $527 million in 2012 when appraisers estimated it to be worth $220 million. Rent-stable apartments in the Trump Park Avenue Building are worth many times the correct value.
She also said she listed the square footage of his own 11,000-square-foot triplex in Trump Tower at 30,000 square feet. is a fraud and not an honest mistake,” she said at a press conference.
Understanding New York’s Civil Lawsuit Against Trump
An empire under scrutiny. New York Attorney General Letitia James has conducted a years-long civil investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s business practices, leading to a lawsuit accusing Trump of “astonishing” fraud. . Here’s what you should know:
James said the penalties she sought “are in line with what we’ve asked for other companies that have committed the same misconduct.” “The former president is the same,” he said.
“Normal people can’t lie about how much money they have in the bank to get a lucrative loan or send their kids to college,” she said. why is this different?
James was already one of Trump’s main opponents. But, as my colleague William K. Raschbaum pointed out, with her criminal charges and her request for the Monitor to oversee the Trump Organization, mopping up the lawsuit is already pretty much making ends meet. increased legal and financial pressure on the former president, who has committed half a dozen crimes and congressional investigations.
James’ case may be difficult to prove. Real estate valuations are often subjective, and the annual financial statements she disputed included a disclaimer that they were not audited.
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba called the lawsuit an “abuse of power” and said she “looks forward to defending our clients against each and every one of the Attorney General’s baseless allegations.” The former president attacked James and the investigation in a post on his Truth Social site. It’s a scammer who campaigned on a platform called ‘Get Trump’.”
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A cold front will develop during the day, bringing showers and thunderstorms. The highest would be in his late 70’s. Tonight it’s dry but much cooler with a breeze bringing the temperature down to the low 50’s.
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United Nations General Assembly
As the United Nations General Assembly continues, today is another “Warning Day for Pandemonium”. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is among the leaders scheduled to address today’s rally.
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Disobeying Aaron Judge’s Rules
Rocky Belbol above was clear, articulate and unwavering. If Aaron Judge played baseball like he does, Judge wouldn’t be in the home run pantheon.
Belbol is playing baseball as it was in 1864. He is the captain of his club Eckford of Brooklyn Baseball, which uses the name of the team that disbanded in 1872.
Back then, the ball was still the indescribable “baseball”, hand-stitched and softer than machine-made balls. “It would have been almost impossible for him to hit the ball as far as he does now,” Belbol said.
Hitting that many home runs would have been difficult, to say the least. The team played fewer games per year. According to “Base Ball Founders: The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game.” I only went out on the field once. Judges would not have had the 528 at-bats he had before tying Babe Ruth’s best season and hitting the 60th home run on Tuesday. You don’t have to add to his numbers in.
Belbol outfielders don’t have to catch fly balls before they hit the ground like judges do. “I can catch the ball on one bounce and put it out,” he said.
And when the judges play right field, they use something that Belbol and his teammates don’t have: gloves.
Belbol said it took courage to “stand there and take a line drive in third or short” with his bare hands, as the original Eckford had done. “Some say, ‘I don’t get it. I’m getting in the way,'” he said. “We send them to the outfield. We want to win.”
In 1872, Eckford finished ninth in the National Association with a record of 3-26, according to the Baseball Reference. They never finished first that season, winning three games after Jimmy Wood replaced Jim Clinton as manager for 11 games in the season. According to “Baseball Founders,” one reporter wrote, “I’ve never seen an outfielder in a game played in such a terrible way.” Belbor’s Eckford is 8-2 this year.
The judge is a big fan of Belbol. “If he was this good and strong, he would have dominated the game all his life,” said Belborg, who was watching the game on Tuesday. “I thought if I hit one more at-bat, that would happen. He knows how to get up in the moment. He hit 58th and his 59th in Milwaukee. How the No. 60 It was special, you know, I know he wanted it for us.
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mavis and amy
Dear Diary:
As I walk north down crowded Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights with my pit bull terrier, Mavis Staples, I hear the woman behind me blaring out my favorite song, Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie.” I was. She wasn’t a talented singer, but I still enjoyed it.
As I approached the corner, I felt her snuggle up to me.
“Thank you so much for walking my dog so politely,” she said, pointing to Mavis.
“Thank you very much,” I said, holding my breath a little. “And I was thinking how much I appreciate your taste in music.”