…and we don't need 4 moar years of this crap.
Appeals Court Hears Arguments Over Trump's $454M Civil Fraud Judgment
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/appeals-court-arguments/2024/09/26/id/1181790/
Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday will seek to persuade a New York state appeals court to toss a nearly half-billion dollar judgment against the former U.S. president over real estate business practices a court has declared fraudulent.
Justice Arthur Engoron in February ordered Trump, the Republican nominee for the Nov. 5 election, to pay $454.2 million in penalties and interest for inflating his net worth to induce bankers into giving him better loan terms, in a civil case brought by New York state Attorney General Letitia James.
The judge's ruling poses a threat to the business empire Trump has built over decades, which includes hotels, office buildings and golf courses around the world. With interest continuing to accrue, Trump now owes $478.3 million.
The case is one of a number of legal entanglements Trump has faced since leaving the White House in 2021. He owes nearly $90 million in federal civil penalties for defaming a writer who accused him of sexual abuse, and was convicted in May on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
Trump has denied all wrongdoing and argues the cases were brought to interfere with his campaign. A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, leading Trump 47%-40% nationwide, though the state-by-state results of the Electoral College determine the winner.
In a brief submitted in July to the Appellate Division - the mid-level state appeals court - Trump's lawyers argued that the financial statements he submitted to banks actually understated his wealth, and there was no indication that any of the lenders suffered losses.
The lawyers also accused James, a Democrat, of targeting a political adversary.
"This politically motivated prosecution attempts to penalize purely proper and lawful conduct," Trump's lawyers wrote.
In a response in August, lawyers with James' office said that the statute under which they sued Trump does not require proof that the banks lost money or relied on Trump's misleading statements in deciding to lend to him.
The purpose of the law, the state lawyers argued, was to "protect the honesty and integrity of commercial marketplaces in New York" by stopping fraud before it causes losses.
The case stemmed from Trump's leadership of his family real estate company, the Trump Organization, before he became president in 2017.
In September 2023, before a three-month trial with no jury, Engoron found Trump liable for lying about his asset values and net worth for a decade. He took particular issue with Trump's claim that his Manhattan penthouse apartment was 30,000 square feet (2,787 square meters), nearly three times its real size.
The trial focused solely on penalties. In addition to the financial penalties, Engoron banned Trump from serving in a top role at any New York company, or seeking loans from banks registered in the state.
Trump in April averted possible asset seizures by posting a $175 million bond while he appeals.
Then it's up to We the People to stand up and revoke their right to govern us.
It's funny to read some of the things that people using a KJV bible post.
Makes you wonder if they realize that the KJV is based on King Henry the 8th's when he formed the church of england.
Which means, two completely re-written 'feel-good' books.
Yet Christ spoke Aramaic, and there are no written accounts of his life written in his natural tongue.
The first gospel written was written approximately 70 years after his death.
So it make one wonder about the truth of them all together.
Yep. It stopped when the women we to the tomb and saw he was not there.
They were so scared they told none about it.
Later on there were authors that added to that account because the church said people would not accept it.
So they gave it an ending that people would accept, thus making the bible nothing more than a 'people-control' device.
Federal authorities raid Eric Adams’ mayoral residence
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/feds-raid-gracie-mansion-00181147
NEW YORK — In a stunning show of force, federal agents raided Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, early Thursday morning.
They seized an electronic device from New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part of an investigation into foreign influence and the moderate Democrat’s 2021 campaign.
The early-morning visit came just hours after news that Adams had been indicted, and was confirmed by Alex Spiro, a private attorney who has been retained by Adams.
“Federal agents appeared this morning at Gracie Mansion in an effort to create a spectacle (again) and take [Adams’] phone (again),” he said in a statement. “He has not been arrested and looks forward to his day in court.”
Adams, in a video released late Wednesday night, suggested federal investigators are deliberately sensationalizing probes into New York City Hall to hobble his credibility. In that vein, Spiro noted Thursday morning the mayor would have voluntarily provided evidence.
“They send a dozen agents to pick up a phone when we would have happily turned it in,” he said in a statement.
The FBI typically conducts early-morning raids to obtain evidence that officials believe they could not get through the type of voluntarily surrender described by Spiro.
The investigation is being led by Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District in New York and is focused at least in part on the mayor’s ties to Turkey.
In the wake of Wednesday’s news of an indictment, multiple officials including several mayoral rivals called for Adams to resign, something the mayor steadfastly refused to do.
>Catholics trust their forefathers and dont do the 'only scripture' thing.
>so Catholics trust what the tradition tells us.
So why would catholics prevent regular people from reading the books?
Why did they translate it into latin, which they know to be satan's language.
They were the ones that started using it as a control device.
That is part of the reason King Henry broke from the roman catholic church, and started raiding those churches in england, even though modern dogma says it was because he wanted a divorce that the pope would not give, then continued on to write his own version of the bible, which later on, King James decided he wanted his own version as well, which is now known as the KJV, which is now translated into many moar different versions today.
The moar translations, the moar corrupt.
Until they release the text of the Dead Sea Scrolls, nothing in those books can be verified.
That is part of the reason they refuse to release the text of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it contradicts with some of what we know to be, according to today's versions.
They will lose their control device.
If you believe in one, you have to believe in the other.
They believed in one, thus believed in the other.