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Full audio: NYAG Letitia James announces lawsuit against Donald Trump

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The complaint demonstrates that donald trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat this system, thereby cheating all of us. His conduct was all in violation of executive law section 63 12, which gives the attorney general broad and special powers to go after persistent and repeated fraud and illegality. As a result of these violations, we are asking the court to permanently bar mister trump from serving as an officer or director in any corporation ... We believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law, including issuing false statements to financial institutions and bank fraud. And we are referring those criminal violations that we've uncovered to the united states attorney for the southern

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