He also said his investigation uncovered evidence of criminal wrongdoing and forwarded it to federal prosecutors and the Internal Revenue Service.
The civil lawsuit seeks to permanently bar Trump and three of his adult children from running businesses in New York state, and to recover at least $250 million obtained through fraud.
Trump called James’ lawsuit a witch hunt and the defendants described the claims as unsubstantiated. James is a Democrat.
A New York judge ordered an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization ahead of its scheduled October 2023 trial.
The demands of E. Jean Carroll
E. Jean Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, filed two lawsuits accusing Trump of defaming her by denying that he raped her in the dressing room of New York’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in late 1995 or early 1996.
Carroll first sued Trump after he told a reporter at the White House in 2019 that he did not know her, that she is “not my type” and that she lied to boost sales of her memoir.
The second lawsuit stemmed from an October 2022 social media post in which Trump called the rape allegation a “hoax,” a “lie,” a “scheming” and “a total scam.”
That lawsuit includes a claim for assault under New York’s Adult Survivors Law, which gave adults a one-year window to sue their alleged attackers even if the statutes of limitations have expired.
Trump and Carroll are awaiting a decision by a Washington DC appeals court. about whether, under local law, Trump should be immune from Carroll’s first lawsuit.
The second lawsuit could go to trial on April 25, after a US judge in January called Trump’s attempt to dismiss it “absurd.”
With information from AFP, EFE and Reuters
