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Get Out of New York, If You Can

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2024 184 Comments

Rough politics has given way to the political weaponization of prosecutors' offices. The price of living in and doing business in New York should not be that you have to be politically obedient....

“the notion that Donald Trump puts a number on a piece of paper and some big bank just says, oh, okay, that’s what it’s worth. That’s not how it works.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2023 81 Comments

My appearance on Fox Live Now about the real estate trial that started today: "If they wanted to charge him with fraud and penalize him for these appraisals, fine, but to then try to put him out of business, I think shows how political and...

Trump on New York Civil Fraud Trial: ‘The Crime is Against Me Because We have a Corrupt’ DA and Attorney General

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 02, 2023 34 Comments

"We have a racist attorney general who's a horror show who ran on the basis that she was going to get Trump before she even knew anything about me."...

NY State Judge Finds Trump Organizations Repeatedly Provided Fraudulent Valuations To Lenders and Insurers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2023 118 Comments

Orders "certificates" enabling numerous Trump entities to operate in NY State cancelled - not clear what this means in terms of survival of Trump organization as a whole....

Court: NY Attorney General Attempt to Force Section 8 on Landlords Unconstitutional

Posted by Terrance Kible on June 27, 2023 53 Comments

The challenged law forced landlords to consent to warrantless government searches of their property and business records. Ithaca's Jason Fane prevails, calls ruling "a victory for the rights of small business owners and the civil liberties of every citizen."...

https://www.youtube.com/live/VR09DG47rU8?feature=share

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Announces Anti-Shoplifting Plan: Social Services Kiosks in Stores and “Second Chance” Program

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 21, 2023 40 Comments

Sounds like a plan. A bad plan: "allow non-violent offenders to avoid prosecution or incarceration by meaningfully engaging with services to help address underlying factors that lead to shoplifting."...

Judge Throws Out NY Online “Hate Speech” Law That Would Have Led To Closure Of Most Comment Sections

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2023 60 Comments

The law would have turned websites into speech police enforcing government views of "hate speech." Jonathan Turley: "Albany has become a type of perpetual motion machine of unconstitutional excesses."...

Trump Drops $250 Million Fraud Case Against New York AG Letitia James

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 20, 2023 14 Comments

On Thursday, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Donald Middlebrooks warned Trump "that the lawsuit appeared to verge on frivolous."...

NY Attorney General Letitia James’ War On Trump Is Disgracing The Office

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2022 70 Comments

My Op-ed in The Daily Caller: "Tish James campaigned on and conducted her office for the purpose of investigating a political opponent and those around him trying to find a crime. That is Soviet-level prosecutorial abuse where individuals are targeted not to prosecute a crime,...

NY AG Letitia James Sues Trump Over Supposed ‘Staggering’ Fraud in Real Estate Business

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 21, 2022 91 Comments

They are so obsessed with Trump that it's disturbing....

Read Letter From NY Attorney General Letitia James Threatening Church Hosting Trump-Friendly Event

Posted by Ilana Cutler on August 17, 2022 72 Comments

Pastor Paul Doyle: “It feels like she’s trying to intimidate me."...

New York Investigation of Trump’s Business Falling Apart as Two Prosecutors Resign From Manhattan DA Office

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 24, 2022 23 Comments

The left's never-ending investigations and harassment of Trump took a major blow this week. Two of the prosecutors involved in the Manhattan DA's probe of Trump's business resigned due to doubts. The 'resist' crowd is going to lose its hive mind over this.

In totally non-political move, anti-Trump NY Attorney General files lawsuit to dissolve NRA

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2020 93 Comments

Letitia James was elected Attorney General of New York State on a platform of using the full power of her office to target "illegitimate" Donald Trump and those around him. She is the epitome of the politicized #Resistance prosecutor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZ5nWX3ADM

NY AG threatens law firm claiming office headcount violates Cuomo lockdown, gets sued in response

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2020 80 Comments

HoganWillig is a multi-office law firm in western New York State. Among its practice areas is real estate closings, which enabled it to obtain designation from the state as an "essential" business even under Andrew Cuomo's coronavirus lockdown orders. The firm also has gained expertise in advising businesses how to weather the coronavirus regulatory storm, and now finds itself in the center of one of those storms as the New York Attorney General's Office has been threatening the firm over its continued real estate operations, claiming the firm was not complying with Cuomo's Orders. The firm is fighting back with a federal court lawsuit.

New York State government joins the War on Trump

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2019 41 Comments

The State government in New York has become part of the #Resistance to Trump, and not just on policy issues. The law enforcement and legislative functions have been co-opted to target Trump because he is a political enemy. In the war on Trump, important norms are being broken. It's disgusting and dangerous.

Incoming NY Attorney General vows to use full power of the State to get Trump

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2018 89 Comments

A series of New York State Attorney Generals have weaponized the Office of Attorney General against Donald Trump, his relatives, and his businesses. AG Eric Schneiderman, who ended up resigning in disgrace after sexual abuse allegations, made a name for himself by threatening Trump, as the NY Times reported just before Schneiderman resigned:

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