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Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, ran for office on promises to use her office to go after Donald Trump. She used an obscure consumer fraud law to claim Trump overvalued assets to obtain a loan that was paid back with interest and on time to a bank that audited his financial statement prior to the loan and had zero complaints about its profitable loan after it was paid off. Trump now is fined $355 million for a crime that has no victim, and has lost control of his New York businesses to a court-appointed judge. No one in New York history has ever been tried under this statute for allegedly exaggerating assets to get a loan that was paid back and over which the lending agency had no complaints.
Víc viz zde:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-banks-lending-punishment-2ee9e509a28c24d0cda92da2f9a9b689
Strucne:
Co je podstatně, 350 mil USD nebi "fine" ale "disgorgement", tzn nikoliv pokuta, ale odnětí neoprávněného zisku. Neztratil kontrolu nad NY firmami, může si dělat co chce, pouze má za zády nezávislou osobu, která se mu dívá přes prsty a ma za úkol nahlásit jakékoliv porušení zákona.
Victimless crime je v NY pořád crime, a není victimless. Obětí se stal cely system, všichni kteří hráli podle pravidel