Intransigence! Subterfuge! Procedural gamesmanship!
In a court filing Friday night, the New York Attorney General described how Donald Trump has been treating her subpoenas.
Her lawyers wrote to a Manhattan judge that the court should put an end to Mr. Trump's intransigence and subterfuge.
The issue will be argued in court at 10 a.m. on Monday. James has asked the Supreme Court Justice to fine Trump $10,000 a day until he complies with the court's order.
Their sometimes vitriolic war of words has been fought in court.
The racist and highly partisan Attorney General of New York State was called on Monday by Trump. He had sent a similar message to the Attorney General the day before.
Despite the fact that she will continue to drive business out of New York while at the same time keeping crime, death, and destruction in New York, the former president said that she should remain healthy.
On Monday night, Trump doubled down, calling James' $10,000-a-day fine threat a blatant "publicity stunt" in court papers filed by his lawyer.
The 10 personal business documents that the Trump Organization has already turned over are all that Habba has for James. Habba said the company has performed a search. She said that the Trump Organization would hold the additional documents. She said that it was up to them to turn these over.
According to Trump's lawyers, the Trump Organization has already turned over some 900,000 documents.
James countered Friday night that the Trump Organization waslagued by its own delays and that its compliance with her document subpoenas was incomplete.
The filing asks the judge to hold Trump in contempt of court and set a fine of $10,000 a day so he will comply.
The filing says that compliance would include searches of all electronic devices and other electronically stored repositories.
The filing says that a court-ordered search by HaystackID didn't shed light on those devices.
There is no ongoing effort to search for responsive material from Mr. Trump's electronic devices.
The report states that Mr. Trump's executive assistant, Rhona Graff, has a laptop and desktop computer located at Trump Tower, but neither one has been collected for discovery, so they have not been searched.
Compliance would include conducting searches of all relevant physical locations, meaning wherever his personal business documents may be, the filing says.
The former president needs to turn over more than the 10 documents produced by the Trump Organization.
The filing says that includes everything in Trump's files. In a deposition last summer, Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said that the documents were stored in chronological order after crossing the desk of Trump.
The filing notes, hard copy calendars, andfiles located in cabinets outside of Mr. Trump's office are all missing.
Any responsive documents that have been destroyed or are no longer available with details on how and why they were not maintained are demanded by the filing.
James has been looking into Trump's real estate business for three years.
The probe is civil in nature and is looking at how Trump valued his properties when applying for loans and tax breaks over the years.
A civil probe could lead to a lawsuit that seeks fines and even the dissolution of his business, as James has sought successfully with the Trump Foundation and without success against the National Rifle Association.
James has been asking for Trump's personal business documents for two years, first through a general subpoena to the Trump Organization, and then through a document subpoena she issued directly to Trump.
James and the Trumps are fighting over additional subpoenas that demand depositions from Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. An appellate court in Manhattan will hear the case on May 11.
James is conducting a separate criminal investigation of Trump's business, which has so far proceeded without any activity provided by public litigation.
The Manhattan district attorney's office is still investigating Trump's business despite the February resignation of its two lead prosecutors.
Insider has been told that the investigation had focused on financial wrongdoing by Trump, and that little else had been planned to pursue against other defendants.
The Trump Organization and its former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, have pleaded not guilty and are currently asking a judge to toss the case.
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