yes. trump s former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, joins me live onset. it cannot be different rules for different people in this country or in this state. former presidents are no different. senator elizabeth warren on the depth of the fraud, and former u.s. attorney harry lippman on the possible charges facing the trump family in their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents. all in starts right now. the good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today new york attorney general letitia james filed a lawsuit alleging what was already obvious to anyone who was ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in more than a 200-page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric, and ivanka, his company, and some of its top executives, of a long-standing scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how new york agent james put it t
trump s former lawyer and fixer joins me live onset. there cannot be different rules for different people in this country or this state. former presidents are no different. senator elizabeth warren on the depth of the fraud and former u.s. attorney harry lippman on the possible charges facing the trump family and their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today new york attorney general letitia james filed a lawsuit, alleging what was already obvious to anyone who has ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in a more than 200 page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric and ivanka. his companies and some of his top executives of a long-standing, widespread scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how ag james put it in her groundbreaking
also said that she is sharing information with the irs and southern district of new york, which is where federal prosecutors could conceivably bring criminal charges if deemed appropriate. to be very clear, even though this is a civil investigation. filing a civil lawsuit it is still a serious threat for the trump organization as an entity. because james is seeking to bar the trump family from servant corporate leadership and doing business in new york. to ban the family and the trump org from buying real estate in new york or taking up a loan for five years. that is in addition to requesting an independent monitor to oversee the trump organization s finances. at a demand of a quarter of a billion dollars in financial restitution. all told, that would likely be the death for the existing trump organs we know it. right, now the trump s family dealing with the various legal and financial structures is firmly in the new york state governments crosshairs. for its alleged misdeeds. that is
so today s revelations do not really come as a surprise to anyone. new york attorney generals office just had the time, resources, where is all determination not to mention subpoena power to spend three years pouring over documents, interviewing more than 60 witnesses to try to prove what much of the country basically already felt to be true. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on the statement of financial condition over the ten-year period. typically when trump is accused of wrongdoing, he has a patsy lined up. the ex president hasn t uncanny ability to walk right up to the line of personal incrimination without actually crossing it himself. today though, the new york attorney general said that was not the case here. that trump was directly involved in the scheme to
as we ve said allegations against trump or not as surprising, given what we ve all seen of his behavior over the years. especially when it comes to inflating numbers. there is something he does, almost pathologically we ve documented here, time and again, when he was in office. like that time he struck a big arms deal with saudi arabia, and the thing just kept getting bigger and bigger, every time he mentioned it. now the original deal was supposedly going to create 40,000 jobs, then trump made it bigger. i work very hard to get the order for the militaries, 100 and $10 million. i believe it s the largest order ever made. it s 450,000 jobs. okay. two things here. the 110 million dollar number itself, we know to be an exaggeration. but 450,000 jobs. now, that s a lot of jobs. although, i think it might