because the extent of the fraud they were successfully sued for wasn't so astonishingly yuge, ya suppose?

It can certainly be an aggregation spread out among multiple bond agencies. Spreading out risk do no one company is too exposed.

If he has the assetts, he should be able to stitch together a package.

Unless nobody trusts him and his collateral is junk bond status.

It seems like the next statement would have to be be "the money we gained in the fraud came from thin air," for that to be true

Banks were the victims by charging lower interest than they would have charged based on real numbers. By charging less in interests, they made less profits for their shareholders (the victims).

Insurance companies were lured, thus their shareholders (the victims).

For using two sets of books, New York State taxpayers (the victims) had to pony up for the amounts that crooked family illegally benefited from in order to pay less taxes than they should have paid.

Of course Faux Noise would never inform their Qult of that.

Everybody must follow the same set of laws!

He can apply for a job calibrating lie detectors.

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PolitiFact:

But of course he's a Trump, so if his mouth is open, he's lying.

Also, "There are no victims," unless you count everyone living in New York State, plus the banks he ripped off. Judge Engoron wrote that "the frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience.”

No one buys your sob story, Eric. Quit whining.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/19/hill-john-solomon-failed-disclose-details-115976

“My father has run a great company. I run a great company. We’ve never had a default. We’ve never missed a payment.” You don't default on loans issued by the Russian mafia. Unless you like sleeping with the fish.
Your brand was found guilty. Man up, dude.

"Bartiromo questioned *rump about how the court arrived at the $454 million for his father to pay."

Why? How would he know? The court documents are public, she could find that out for herself. BUT this gives Gums the chance to echo what daddy who hates him told him to say:

“You know what it was, it was a crooked number. There are no victims; there is no number. The number should be zero,” he said.

That demented rambling sounds exactly like that fermented puss bag. A "crooked" number?

That mock innocence of hers, "how could they do that to li'l ol' yew?"

Reminds me of a segment of Bill O'Reilly years ago before he got axed for being a sexual predator, which since then they've chosen to embrace and glorify. Some big boobed blonde bimbo "reporter," or "journalist," or whatever fake title they give themselves, in nine inch stilettoes, two inches of skirt and eight miles of cleavage was wailing about President Obama's admin using plastic eggs for the Easter egg roll (or whatever) at the White House. "What a travesty! Plastic eggs! What's next if real patriots don't stop him?? Tan suits and Grey Poupon?!!"

So then Bill disingenuously asks her why they were using plastic eggs instead of real, red white and true blue American eggs from honest to Gawd patriotic and probably veteran conservative Republican chickens and she kind of flippantly said it was something to do with baby chicks. Because telling the TRUTH about factory farming is so very radically liberal and progressive; animals should go to their deaths with pride to be feeding real Americans despite spending their lives locked up in tiny cages filled with excrement and tortured by sickos. It might upset the shareholders and/or sponsors and/or donors.

Well that went off the rails.

Eric needs the Internets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/06/16/trump-misses-45-million-in-debt-payments/eaa4c82a-50c7-459f-8c39-b5f134ffd38e/

Big strong bankers come up to me with tears streaming down their cheeks, saying, "Thank you sir for showing us how Great a bond can be."

so it doesn't fit Eric's narrative of “No one’s ever seen a bond this size”.

STFU Eric.

When you crime large, the settlement is large.

ETA:

Most companies that face settlements that large don't need to come up with a corresponding bond. When you're a real business, you have the money to back up an appeal. Companies have had even bigger judgments against them, but we never heard of them whining about anything regarding it. They simply put up the dough and went on with their appeal.

These con artists would be able to do the same thing if they were a real business, rather than money launderers and grifters.

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