Donald Trump, left. Letitia James, right.
Donald Trump speaking at the NRA convention in Houston, TX, on May 27, 2022. New York Attorney General Letitia James, right, speaks in Washington, DC on Nov. 12, 2019.
  • NY officials have upped the ante in their fraud lawsuit against Trump and Trump Organization.
  • On Friday, the AG said Trump should pay $370M for lying about his net worth in official documents.
  • Trump counters that NY law does not allow any such penalties, an argument that's repeatedly failed.

The New York attorney general's office has upped the ante against Donald Trump, asking that his Manhattan fraud judge hit the former president with $370 million in penalties for a decade-long pattern of lying to banks and others about his net worth.