(Bloomberg) — Former President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James in Florida in search of to cease her try to wrest management of his actual property firm from him and acquire information about his funds.
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In a criticism Trump says was filed Wednesday in state court docket in Palm Beach County, and which reads very like his posts on Truth Social — his Twitter-like social media web site — Trump accused James of a “war of intimidation and harassment.” The criticism couldn’t be instantly confirmed on the court docket’s web site.
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James sued Trump and his three youngsters in September, claiming they inflated the worth of his actual property firm’s belongings. She’s in search of $250 million in disgorgement and to stop his firms from doing enterprise in New York. Last month she requested a choose to appoint an impartial monitor to oversee the corporate earlier than the civil case goes to trial.
“What began as a cartoonish, thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign President Trump for personal political gain has morphed into a plot to obtain control of a global private enterprise ultimately owned by a Florida revocable trust in which President Trump is the settlor,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in the criticism.
Trump claims James is violating his privateness by in search of particulars of his revocable belief. He requested for a preliminary and everlasting injunction stopping James from getting a replica of the belief, or exercising any authority over it.
James’s press workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark despatched after common enterprise hours.
The case is Trump v. James, Circuit Court of the fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Florida.
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