Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James has said she will ask Judge Arthur Engoron, who has donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party, to seize Donald Trump’s assets if he does not pay a $355 million fine.
“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James told ABC.
Judge Engoron’s law clerk and “co-judge,” Allison Greenfield, attended Democrat events endorsing AG James and Joe Biden, and his wife published vulgar social media posts attacking Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, during the New York trial.
ABC posited to James that Trump’s alleged fraud had “no victim, no one got harmed, the banks got paid back, so no harm no foul.”
James had no substantive answer to this, simply stating that “financial frauds are not victimless crimes” — despite the judgment against the former president being civil, not criminal.
Trump insists there was no fraud, that he undervalued rather than overvalued his assets when applying for bank loans, and that Engoron accepted questionable valuations of his assets.
There has been heavy criticism of an $18 million valuation of his Mar-a-Lago estate — which sold for the equivalent of $70 million in 1981 — in particular.
New York's Democrat Attorney General is now threatening to seize Trump Tower and other assets of the 45th President. pic.twitter.com/HGUdozBnV7
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) February 21, 2024