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Joseph Wilkinson

Manhattan judge green-lights NY AG James’ $250 million Trump Organization lawsuit, labels dismissal motions ‘frivolous’

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization got a green light Friday from a Manhattan judge who trashed the organization’s motion to dismiss the case.

“Reading these arguments was, to quote baseball sage Lawrence Peter (‘Yogi’) Berra, ‘Deja vu all over again,” wrote Justice Arthur Engoron in his nine-page rejection.

James filed the lawsuit in September, arguing that Donald Trump, his children and the Trump Organization committed fraud for years by lying to insurance companies, lenders, and tax officials by inflating the value of the organization’s real estate.

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