"Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered ‘dissolved’ for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ultimate punishment for violating New York’s powerful anti-fraud law,” the AP reports.

“An Associated Press analysis of nearly 70 years of civil cases under the law showed that such a penalty has only been imposed a dozen previous times, and Trump’s case stands apart in a significant way: It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses.”

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    5 months ago

    The public is t harder to personify, they - we - are just less interesting and less salacious. “The public” being ripped off for the trillionth time doesn’t bait clicks and sell headlines. It doesn’t keep people glued to CNN and Fox News 24/7 with outrage watching ads for whatever they’re selling.

    The media can’t sell your “kind of”