... at least not YET!

After Chump croaks, then his entire estate can be seized to the point that the fines are paid off.

The NY judgment would be registered as a foreign judgment in any state in which Trumps assets are found. The court in the registering state then issues execution against assets in that state.

If I remember correctly, Trump is an employee of Merry Laredo - thus eligible to live there. It is not listed as his residence. The zoning or something does not allow for it being identified as a personal residence.

This will bite him in the butt, if she decides to go after that place.

Laughter.

The GOP machine in Florida allows him to say he is an employee who lives on-site, but it cannot be a residence per zoning and an agreement with the state and Palm Beach.

I'm sure that his assets must be mortgaged to the hilt... she'd have to pay off everyone that has a lien on his property (which I'm sure will be a THRILL and RELIEF for them) and that won't leave much to pay his debt to society.

She'll have to go after another and another until the job is done.

Could be a major challenge. And they may get really angry!

... which is only fair

* that would be about $35-40 per taxpayer.

However, if this starts a trend and we do this with all the high-end tax cheats at the top of the pyramid, we may actually see some relief down here! Try'na be positive here!

You know she's not going quietly!

So she is going to have to seize more than one property to get the cash she wants.

We just don't know how much equity are in his properties.

Would love to see them booted for non-payment.

It is owned by the corporation.

All of the kids apartments are also company owned.

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship!

Restore the old name and re-create the art deco front, and make it the Bonwit-Teller Bldg again.

cheap pile of russian hideouts, yes? Just as the Art Deco frieze was completely destroyed. One cannot restore that which does not exist.

There’s a lot of retail already in that building, so just sign the existing structure as Bonwit Teller Mall. Unfortunately the Art Deco friezes, if you could find artists who could make new ones, wouldn’t fit into the style of Trump’s monstrosity but other than that…

Is there a reason in state law why the New York government couldn’t keep the building and act as its lessor? It’d save the problem of finding someone willing to buy it.

Just so you know…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/business/trump-hotel-waikiki/index.html

Trump sold his Waikiki hotel to Hilton last year. The first thing Hilton had to do was sink millions into detrumpifying the decor.

i think even some of the retail is owned by occupants.

* on the front of the building. Hopefully the rents/leases would remain the same, and the new owner (executor) would be the one collecting the rent.

I wonder if it's just a "naming-rights" arrangement, where he just pretends to own something but pays for the right to put his name on it for publicity and vanity purposes (like sports stadiums and arenas).

but yeah, i’m sure most of the owners wd breathe a big sigh of relief.

And the houseless!

That is a sitcom I'd pay to see!

Daddy needs cash.

being tapped out. Supporting Mango Mussolini and his family for the past 8 years has taken a toll on their disposable income, their retirement funds, and their children's future bail money. Not to mention what they've spent on his cheap-assed merchandise.

Some of his big donors are sitting this one out. They're tired of throwing good money after bad. Not to mention his draining of funds for down-ticket candidates from the RNC. Trump is a blackhole from which no dollar escapes, and it's costing republicans EVERYTHING!

I LOVE IT!

. . . then raze it to the ground and sell the vacant lot.

Would that piss off Trump or would that piss off Trump???

Would be sooo satisfying.

If she bought the property, she could call it "Taylor Tower".
(Imagining heads exploding)

No idea if he did or did not, and how the legal system responded if he didn't.
(A topic for future research.)

I can't see Trump being able or willing to pay his fine though, so asset seizing will become the order of the day.

Going to keep some accountants busy for quite a while!

No idea how it would all work - could Trump Tower become government property with space rented out by the government?

He ended up here in a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary here in Philly for his very first prison sentence. The prison and cell is still there and reproduced with the "amenities" (recently updated to be more sparse) he had at the time!

https://www.easternstate.org/explore/exhibits/al-capones-cell



A year after that, he was convicted for tax evasion and spent time in 2 other prisons -

OK, it was a rundown BOQ, with plaster falling off the walls, and it did have a view (of a junkyard) but I could come and go as I pleased.

A neighbor's room a few times. Haunted? Maybe, maybe not...

The first time you go through a locked entrance, you hear the door slammed close behind you.

You realize that you are in there until someone lets you out.

The second thing you realize is that you will be stopped and have a complete search of your clothing and anything you need to carry in. Next, you will be escorted to your space for the day.

In my case, I was put in a basement work area. Mine was a vocational teaching and production space.

OK, time to fess up. I was hired under a contract. To help with assembling a piece of printshop equipment.

My dad was a Union printer his whole life except for the years in the USN during WW II.

His last job was teaching printing and print shop skills to the inmates. The print shop served two purposes.

One was to teach printing skills, and the other was to print letterheads and other materials for the prison.
So, in the 30-day "stretch," I reassemble a donated linotype for my dad as a volunteer.

I was paid with a truck full of old oak tables, chairs, and benches. Those prison pieces of furniture have been given to my sister and are now passed on to the grandkids. Each one of them takes this story with the bench or chair. The story is that one of the country's most infamous killers at the time likely sat on that furniture as it all came from the wing of the prison where he was housed.

One of my best memories, besides working with my dad. Was one of the inmates who became a lifelong friend to my dad and with my dads passing in the late 1990s that friendship was extend to me. Every Christmas, we get a card from the former inmate still thanking me as a remembrance of my dad for "turning his life around."

It's not often in today's world that you see a simple act of kindness turn another person's life around from a prison inmate to a very successful building contractor. He reconciled with his family and is enjoying his grandkids.

One more little secret was exposed. When I worked in my dad's home shop, he always preached "white space." He felt too many customers wanted to fill every pica in a line with characters. I obviously believe in Dad's white space.

and lots of generational good deeds!!!

Is the prison door closing behind me.

I just spent about half an hour checking it out at their website. It looks scary as heck! I love it!

That place is pretty popular at Halloween for those shows. When I was commuting to work, there were times when my regular route was detoured and I had to go down the main street where that sits and it is just hulking, surrounded by a residential neighborhood.



For Halloween, they add a couple imposing gargoyles to the entrance to give it more atmosphere!

Those last two sentences were spot on.

He's such a supreme narcissist that he actually believes that NYC would just fold up shop if he ever left.

Not!!! Even the rubes aren't THAT stup...oh, never mind.

That's a drop in the bucket considering what he'll owe.
Still, how stupid do people have to be to donate their money to that orange idiot? Fools and their money.....

Trump has to come up with a bit less than a half-a-billion dollars within two months if he hopes to (a) file appeals in all the adverse decisions and (b) save any of his properties. As it is, Trump probably has less than a million in cash.

But Putin could see to it that the half-billion materializes, like magic, in Trump's wallet. And maybe another half-billion for his presidential campaign.
Yes, it means fudging on federal paperwork but that never stopped Trump before.

And, what's more, all this money would be given to Trump with only a very very few strings attached! If you get my drift.

Fighting Randolph and Mortimer Duke for a cardboard box!

One dollar.

but all mortgages and prior liens would have to be paid first before the state sees dime one.

There is at least one mortgage on 40 Wall Street to the tune of ~$122.6 million.

There are probably multiple other encumberments on the title as well.

So saying that the state may seize and sell the property is just grandstanding as the action may not net the state anything.

The state might be better off notifying the tenants and levying any and all lease/rent payments due to Trump et. al.

that is stock in his low brow social media site, not actual cash that he could use to pay off the judgements. There is also a clause that says he can't sell that stock for (I believe) six months.

Which is the equivalent of "check kiting."


For those unfamiliar with the term:

"Check kiting or cheque kiting is a form of check fraud, involving taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account. In this way, instead of being used as a negotiable instrument, checks are misused as a form of unauthorized credit."
- Wikipedia

This whole disgusting family of frauds needs to seriously just go broke and fuck off.

“ if Trump is unable to find the case to cover the court-ordered disgorgement.”. I wish the author would not use ‘Trump’ and ‘disgorgement’ in the same sentence. That’s pretty gross.

Who has financial stakes in Trump's NY real estate, will they recover that, and is the real bottom line - after a fire sale - a black or red number?

My guess it will be close to zero, but those doing the accounting on that will need to keep us informed.

Possible future headline: TRUMP WAS NOT A BILLIONAIRE!!!!

FOX heads will explode on camera trying to put a positive spin on that, if it eventuates.

Better sell a fuckton more hideous tacky shoes, then.

* and then try to take that up the ladder with appeal after appeal.

Or are "his" buildings all owned by banks or foreign governments (Russia, Saudi Arabia, eg)?

And I doubt he has any equity in anything he owns.

make it easy.

Cut away Ms. James!

If the State of New York starts foreclosure proceedings against TFG's assets, the lenders holding liens on such assets will declare their loans due and payable and TFG's only choice will be to file personal bankruptcy. This will be fun to watch