dhork,

This article is trash, just like most of Newsweek these days. It quotes a single lawyer who says that the AG could seize any of Trump’s assets that she wants. That’s technically true, of course, but the AGs job is to recover the judgement, and she will go after the most liquid assets first. She would go after real estate only after his bank and investment accounts are seized, as a last resort. All of his real estate is likely already mortgaged up the wazoo (based on inflated values) and it will take a long time to sell, for very little gain compared to the amount of effort put in.

But the DA also has the benefit of a court-appointed monitor who has been running things there, and knows where the low-hanging fruit is. The DA has already put in paperwork in Westchester, where he has a few properties. She might have concluded that if she needs to start taking real estate, the stuff there has the highest actual value that can be realized if it is liquidated.

So it’s disingenuous to make it sound like Leticia James is going to move into Trump’s apartment at Trump Tower or Mar-A-Lago tomorrow.

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