Alina Habba, spokesperson and attorney for former President Trump, has pledged to vigorously pursue legal retaliation against New York Attorney General Letitia James following her successful prosecution of her client, resulting in a massive $355 million settlement in a civil fraud case last week.
Last fall, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in favor of New York Attorney General Letitia James, awarding her nearly the entire $370 million sought against Trump and his two sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. The judge concluded that they had engaged in fraudulent activities to obtain better loan rates from banks by exaggerating the value of their assets.
In an interview on Friday with Fox News host Sean Hannity — the day of Engoron’s ruling — Habba said that “the biggest message” she could give is that Engoron and James were “not going to get away with it.” She also suggested that James may have coordinated with the Biden administration.
“There is a point, and I want to say something that I don’t normally do; we have the order now; I’m free to speak. And let me just say […]; they will not get away with it. We will come at them, we will come hard, and we will literally fight until the truth comes out,” she said.
“There was nothing wrong. President Trump has done nothing wrong. All he has done is win a campaign, and that is scaring them. Because they know when he goes back in November 2024, he is going to clean house, and that is truly the problem,” she added.
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Meanwhile, Shark Tank star and investor Kevin O’Leary stated that the recent fraud ruling against Trump has prompted him to reconsider investing in New York, dubbing it a “mega loser state.”
“I’m not different than any other investor. I’m shocked at this. I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all. There’s no rationale for it,” O’Leary said during an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto Coast To Coast.”
“It does not matter what the governor says. New York was already a loser state, like California is a loser state. There are many loser states because of policy, high taxes, uncompetitive regulation, it was already on the top of the list to be the loser state. I would never invest in New York now. I’m not the only person saying that,” O’Leary said.
“That is why New Yorkers should be concerned. The fine people of New York should ask themselves, why are we a loser state? How are we going to attract business? It is not just the existing businesses moving to Texas and Florida; what about new money that I’m talking about, like a four billion-dollar data center? Not a chance I would put that in New York,” O’Leary added.
