his company a few weeks ago. there were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. he is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. but he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. we have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so e huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. so his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been unable to obtain a bond. they said they had reached out to 30 different insurance companies but nobody would help him post a bond of that size. at that point, it looked like new york s attorney general, who brought this fraud case in the first place, the a.g. might be about to start seizing trump s bank accounts and seizing his properties to secure the judgment. but then, you may recall, there was sort of a last-minute f reprieve for
we arranged for all of that to happen in that hour as hazing for you. you re in the frat, don t worry. thank you, rachel. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. right off the top, there has been breaking news in the last hour or so. in a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. he lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago. there were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. he is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. but he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. we have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. so his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been
as a local daily, high school sports drive interest, as does s restaurant news. and we still run birth notices in our papers. who does that anymore? reporter: not everyone loves the paper. some elected officials, community leaders there s a lot of mischief that can go on in the dark that happens when you don t have local journalists keeping track of what is going on. reporter: mainers have relied on the sun journal for more than 175 years. thanks to the trust, they still can and be a short delivery person beth combs will see you get your copy, even at your back door. thank you to the amazing harry smith for one last piece of good news to take us off the air tonight. on that beautiful note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up ne late. up late. thanks to you at home for joining us. really happy to have here. right of the top, there has been breaking news in the last hour or so in a coupl
involving former president donald trump. one of these we ve been watching for a few weeks, he lost a big fraud case a few weeks ago, there were huge financial penalties that he s been ordered to pay in that case. he is going to appeal the judgment is going to appeal the ruling in that case, but in the meantime he has to put up a bond while he files that appeal, and we ve been watching this, because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. his lawyers told the court, as the deadline for finding that bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they d been unable to obtain the bond, they said they reached out to 30 different insurance companies, but nobody would help him post a bond of that size. at that point it looked like new york s attorney general, who brought this fraud case in the first place, the ag might be about to start seizing trumps bank accounts and seizing his properties. to secure
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. please welcome bernadette atuahene to this program. the full scholar professor. she joins on tax of foreclosures. for those who are unfamiliar of how serious this problem is between 2011 and 2015. one and four dough tretroit own subject to property tax foreclosures. many of those foreclosures are unconstitutional. professor atuahene, i am glad to have you on this program. let me jump right in, why unconstitution unconstitutional? other state constitutions to the extent they mention property tax assessment at all, saying things like property tax must be fair or equitable or uniformed and up to the courts to determine legality. michigan and five eother state that is have an actual ratio in the state constitutions. that s what we did. we found that between 2009 and 2015, each of those seven years, anywhere between 55% and 85% of property in detroit is a violation of the constitution. not only that, we