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New York Attorney General Letitia James files $250M lawsuit against Trump, family alleging fraud
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The civil lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleges the former president's golf resort and now home, Mar-A-Lago, was valued as high as $779 million but should have been valued at $75 million.
The suit says that higher valuation was "based on the false premise that it was unrestricted property and could be developed for residential use even though Mr. Trump himself signed deeds donating his residential development rights and sharply restricting changes to the property."
The lawsuit seeks a $250 million judgment and a prohibition on any of the Trumps from leading a company in the state of New York.
James is also referring her findings to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who could open a criminal investigation into bank fraud, according to a footnote in the lawsuit.
New York Attorney General Letitia James files $250M lawsuit against Trump, family alleging fraud