Ivanka officially abandons ship, leaving her brothers to drown
Ivanka Trump has jump shipped, y’all.The former first daughter just hired a new attorney to defend her in that $250 million fraud suit against the Trump Organization that she’s been trying from months to weasel out of.New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit last year alleging ex-president Donald Trump, as well Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka, lied about property values to secure cheaper loans for the Trump Organization.In addition to paying a $250 million fine, James has asked the court to bar the Trumps from conducting business in the state for the rest of their lives.
After the lawsuit was filed last September, Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka hired New York attorneys Clifford Robert and Michael Farina of Robert & Robert to represent the three of them.
Ivanka also hired D.C.-based attorneys, Reid Figel and Michael Kellogg of Kellogg Hansen, to represent her independently of her brothers.Then this week a bomb was dropped.On Tuesday, Ivanka informed the court that she had fired her entire legal team and was starting from scratch, working with Bennet Moskowitz of Troutman Pepper.
Figel and Kellogg are totally out of the picture, while Robert and Farina will continue representing her brothers.Moskowitz, who is perhaps most famous for representing the estate of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, is now Ivanka’s sole attorney on the case.
