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New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference, in New York, June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

New York Attorney General Letitia James will not drop civil case against Trump

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)

New York court is set to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of his $489 million civil fraud verdict

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press briefing, Feb. 16, 2024, in New York. On Wednesday, April 17, a New York man pleaded guilty to sending death threats to the state attorney general and the Manhattan judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud suit. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Pro-life pregnancy centers sue New York A.G. for targeting abortion-pill reversal treatments

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - Wayne LaPierre, former CEO of the National Rifle Association walks in the hallway at civil court in New York, Monday, July 15, 2024. LaPierre told a New York judge Monday, July 29, that the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the gun rights group’s finances would be like "putting a knife straight through the heart of the organization and twisting it.” (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)

Former NRA chief says appointing a financial monitor would be ‘putting a knife’ into the gun group

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Wayne LaPierre, former CEO of the National Rifle Association, leaves the courtroom for an afternoon break in the second phase of a civil case that New York Attorney General Letitia James brought against the NRA, Monday, July 29, 2024, in New York. LaPierre told a New York judge on Monday that the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the gun rights group's finances would be "equivalent to putting a knife straight through the heart of the organization and twisting it." (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Judge bars Wayne LaPierre from working for NRA for 10 years but declines to appoint monitor

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

FILE - Wayne LaPierre arrives at court, Jan. 24, 2024, in New York. The second phase of the civil trial against the National Rifle Association and its top executives opens Monday, July 15, in Manhattan, with New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking an independent monitor to oversee the powerful gun rights group. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Second phase of NRA civil trial over nonprofit’s spending set to open in NYC

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press briefing, Feb. 16, 2024, in New York. A New York man has been charged with sending death threats to James and the Manhattan judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s civil suit. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York AG Letitia James accused of ‘witch-hunt’ after suing pro-life pregnancy centers

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at his criminal trial at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

N.Y. judge upholds Trump $175 million civil fraud bond

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's Presidential Forum in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

N.Y. Dems accused of weaponizing courts against many political foes — not just Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news briefing, Feb. 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York A.G. Letitia James moves to seize Trump’s sprawling Empire State estate

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Rome, Ga., on March 9, 2024. The judge in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step aside or remove the special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship before the case can proceed. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) **FILE**

Trump says he’ll have to put property into ‘fire sale’ to meet N.Y. bond

By Mallory Wilson and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New York Attorney General Letitia James, center left, waits for the continuation of former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Trump fumes over ‘un-American’ bond amount in New York civil fraud case

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Suing beef producers for climate change illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

New York AG Letitia James sues beef producers for climate change

By James Taylor

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump lawyers ask for delay in enforcing fine from New York civil fraud case

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Transgender activist Cecilia Gentili poses for a photo at the offices of the Oxford University Press in New York on April 24, 2014. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of Gentili, which was held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan and drew a large audience on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Religious group calls mockery of faith at a transgender funeral in NYC a ‘hate crime’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press briefing, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in New York. A New York judge ordered Donald Trump and his companies on Friday to pay $355 million in penalties, finding they engaged in a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

N.Y. Attorney General James says she would ‘seize’ Trump’s assets if he can’t pay fraud case fine

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

FILE - NRA general counsel John Frazer arrives at court in New York, Jan. 8, 2024. Closing arguments are expected in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in the civil case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James against the NRA, its former CEO Wayne LaPierre and three other NRA officials. Jury deliberations are slated to follow. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYC trial scrutinizing lavish NRA spending under Wayne LaPierre nears a close

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

New York Attorney General Letitia James, center left, waits for the continuation of former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. Within days, Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ultimate punishment for violating New York’s powerful anti-fraud law. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Stefanik calls for NY AG James to be suspended or disbarred over Trump civil fraud case

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks after his defense team finished presenting closing arguments at New York Supreme Court, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump says he deserves damages for fraud perpetrated by N.Y. Attorney General James

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom before the start of closing arguments in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Trump lawyer: No evidence of fraud in New York case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times