How AOC Inadvertently Triggered New York Attorney General Trump’s Trial

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday her $250 million civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. In particular, he cited testimony from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen in 2019, in which he revealed that the former president had fraudulently inflated the value of his assets.

“I will remind everyone that this investigation did not begin until after Michael Cohen, his former attorney, his former attorney, testified before Congress to shed light on this error,” he said.

The question that prompted Cohen’s response came in 2019 from James’s colleague in New York, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

In 2019, Cohen testified against his predecessor before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. At the time, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated former House Democratic caucus chairman Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th primaries, asked whether Trump had lent bloated assets to an insurance company.

Cohen replied, “Yes.” When I asked Ms Ocasio-Cortez who else knows Mr Trump did this, she replied, “Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari.”

The lawsuit also named Mr. Lieberman, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization. Specifically, he said Weiselberg helped Trump make fraudulent claims about the financial condition of his holdings.

Mr. Trump has made it clear through Mr. Weisselberg that he wants his net worth to grow in his data every year, and the data has been the means by which his net worth has been fraudulently inflated by billions of dollars year after year. Mrs. James’ office. in SENTENCE.

“Where can the committee find more information on this?” Do you think we need to review your financial statements and tax returns? “Did he say?

“Yes, and I will find him at the Trump Organization,” Cohen said.

The lawsuit alleges that Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by millions of dollars so that banks could lend him and his companies money on more favorable terms that would not have otherwise been available.