<p>纽约州检察长莱蒂蒂亚·詹姆斯并没有退缩。</p>
<p>她针对特朗普总统的庞大商业欺诈案在周四遭遇了重大打击，尽管案件仍然有效，但一个分歧的上诉法院驳回了对他及其公司的约 5 亿美元民事欺诈罚款。</p>
<p>然而，她誓言将上诉至该州的最高法院，即使司法部对她施加了更大的压力，正在对她的办公室和个人房地产进行调查，这也是特朗普对其敌人报复誓言的升级。</p>
<p>詹姆斯是特朗普最显著的对手之一，在她赢得针对他及其企业的民事欺诈案后，裁定他为了税收和保险利益而篡改了自己的净资产，这对他的房地产大亨形象造成了打击。</p>
<p>这使得纽约的首席检察官再次与总统处于冲突的轨道上。</p>
<p>“我确实认为这显然是报复，” 纽约资深审判律师凯瑟琳·克里斯蒂安说，她密切关注此案。</p>
<p>“这就像是，‘我在报复你对我所做的事情，’” 她说。</p>
<p>在裁决之前，司法部已经加大了施压力度。</p>
<p>本月早些时候，纽约北区的联邦检察官发出了两份传票，要求提供与詹姆斯针对特朗普组织和全国步枪协会（NRA）案件相关的信息。</p>
<p>在詹姆斯于 2022 年对特朗普提起的欺诈案中，一名初审法官裁定特朗普、他的两个长子和公司对欺诈负责。他命令他们支付 4.64 亿美元，加上每日利息，到周四的上诉法院裁决时总额已超过 5.27 亿美元。</p>
<p>纽约中级上诉法庭的五名法官在几乎没有达成一致的情况下，仅同意罚款金额违法过高。尽管法院的三份意见没有获得多数支持，但达成了一致意见，将案件推进至上诉法院，即纽约的最高法院。</p>
<p>“在我看来，上诉法庭几乎是在把责任推给上诉法院来做最终决定，” 佩斯大学的法学教授、前纽约检察官本内特·格什曼说。</p>
<p>詹姆斯在 2020 年起诉了全国步枪协会及其高层领导。去年，一名法官裁定 NRA 负责人韦恩·拉皮尔挪用数百万美元用于奢华生活，并命令他向 NRA 支付 435 万美元的赔偿。该组织的退休前财务主管威尔逊·菲利普斯被命令向 NRA 支付 200 万美元，法院随后指示该组织实施十多项治理改革，以避免未来的违规行为。</p>
<p>商业欺诈和 NRA 诉讼都引发了来自政治右派的批评，认为作为民主党的詹姆斯在利用她的职务追击保守派领导人和公司。</p>
<p>但特朗普政府目前对詹姆斯的关注并不仅限于她作为纽约检察长的工作。</p>
<p>司法部还在调查联邦住房金融局提出的刑事转介，指控詹姆斯声称一处位于弗吉尼亚的房产是她的主要居所，以获得有利的贷款条件。该机构暗示詹姆斯 “伪造了银行文件和财产记录” 以获得更好的条件。</p>
<p>现任特朗普 “武器化专员” 的埃德·马丁，在未能获得华盛顿特区美国检察官的参议院确认后，被指派领导该调查。</p>
<p>他在上周给詹姆斯的律师阿贝·洛威尔的信中写道，纽约检察长 “最能为州和国家的利益服务” 的方式是辞去职务。</p>
<p>“我会将此视为一种善意的行为，” 马丁写道。</p>
<p>他后来在詹姆斯位于布鲁克林的家外摆姿势拍照。《国会山》寻求对此的评论。</p>
<p>洛威尔在周一给马丁的回信中表示，这一举动构成了职业行为的违反，暗示这一 “真正奇怪、为媒体而设的噱头” 超出了司法部和伦理规则的范围。</p>
<p>这位律师还批评马丁似乎在寻求对詹姆斯的 “报复”。</p>
<p>“以上所有表明我认为你并没有进行严肃的 ‘抵押贷款欺诈’ 调查或审查，尽管缺乏证据或法律，你将采取任何你被指示采取的行动，以兑现特朗普总统和检察长邦迪对报复的呼吁，” 洛威尔写道。</p>
<p>克里斯蒂安曾与詹姆斯对簿公堂，她表示她认为检察长不会被司法部的努力所威胁，但称这些努力 “极不专业且不恰当”。</p>
<p>“如果他们调查的确是这种罪行，那就没有比这更无聊的了，” 克里斯蒂安说。</p>
<p>司法部的调查是在特朗普多年来指控詹姆斯利用法院进行政治获利的背景下进行的。特朗普法律团队的一位发言人在周四称民事欺诈案是对总统的 “政治十字军” 和 “法律战争”。</p>
<p>纽约上诉法院小组中的一名法官似乎表示同意。</p>
<p>法官大卫·弗里德曼撰写了法院三份意见之一，他声称记录清楚表明詹姆斯试图将法律和司法系统 “用于政治目的”，并指出检察长在 2018 年竞选时承诺调查特朗普。</p>
<p>但撰写主要意见的法官彼得·莫尔顿和黛安·伦威克表示 “恰恰相反”。</p>
<p>他们认为詹姆斯的 “‘政治’ 选择” 本应是置之不理，避免与 “强大的对手” 发生冲突。</p>
<p>“她的指控在这场极具挑战性的诉讼的每个阶段都经过了检验，并且在大多数情况下得到了支持，” 他们写道。“我们现在面前是检察长收集的证据，证明被告参与了长达十年的金融欺诈和非法行为。”</p>
<p>詹姆斯本人在周四重申，应该 “不会被历史遗忘”，另一个法庭已发现特朗普违反了法律，她的案件是有依据的。</p>
<p>尽管特朗普和其他被告尚未表示他们是否也会上诉，但在纽约最高法院的这场高风险斗争似乎注定要发生。</p>
<p>“大家都知道，他们正在决定的是一个涉及美国总统命运的案件——他的商业、他的声誉，” 格尔施曼说。</p>
<p>“这会是一个重要因素吗？谁知道，” 他补充道。“你真的只能进行猜测。”</p>

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<p>纽约州检察长莱蒂蒂亚·詹姆斯正在对最近一项驳回对特朗普总统 500 万美元民事欺诈罚款的上诉法院裁决提出上诉。尽管遭遇挫折，詹姆斯仍决心继续追究此案，该案认定特朗普在虚假夸大其净资产方面负有责任。司法部已加大对詹姆斯的审查力度，包括对她的办公室和个人房地产的调查。批评者认为，詹姆斯对特朗普和全国步枪协会的行动具有政治动机，而詹姆斯的律师则指控司法部进行偏见调查</p>

<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James is not backing down.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>纽约州检察长莱蒂蒂亚·詹姆斯并没有退缩。</p>
</div><p>Her sprawling business fraud case against President Trump took a meteoric hit when a divided appeals court Thursday threw out the roughly $500 million civil fraud penalty against him and his company despite keeping the case intact.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>她针对特朗普总统的庞大商业欺诈案在周四遭遇了重大打击，尽管案件仍然有效，但一个分歧的上诉法院驳回了对他及其公司的约 5 亿美元民事欺诈罚款。</p>
</div><p>However, she vowed to appeal to the state’s highest court, even as the Justice Department has turned up the heat on her, pursuing probes scrutinizing her office and personal real estate in an escalation of Trump’s vows for retribution against his foes.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>然而，她誓言将上诉至该州的最高法院，即使司法部对她施加了更大的压力，正在对她的办公室和个人房地产进行调查，这也是特朗普对其敌人报复誓言的升级。</p>
</div><p>James is among Trump’s most prominent adversaries after winning the civil fraud case against him and his business, resulting in a finding that he altered his net worth for tax and insurance benefits — a blow to his real estate mogul image.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>詹姆斯是特朗普最显著的对手之一，在她赢得针对他及其企业的民事欺诈案后，裁定他为了税收和保险利益而篡改了自己的净资产，这对他的房地产大亨形象造成了打击。</p>
</div><p>It puts New York’s top prosecutor back on a collision course with the president.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这使得纽约的首席检察官再次与总统处于冲突的轨道上。</p>
</div><p>“I do think it’s clear that this is retribution,” said Catherine Christian, a veteran New York trial lawyer who has closely followed the case.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我确实认为这显然是报复，” 纽约资深审判律师凯瑟琳·克里斯蒂安说，她密切关注此案。</p>
</div><p>“This is like, ‘I’m paying you back for what you did to me,’” she said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“这就像是，‘我在报复你对我所做的事情，’” 她说。</p>
</div><p>Before the decision came down, DOJ had already stepped up its pressure campaign.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在裁决之前，司法部已经加大了施压力度。</p>
</div><p>Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of New York earlier this month issued two subpoenas seeking information tied to James’s cases against the president’s Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association (NRA).</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>本月早些时候，纽约北区的联邦检察官发出了两份传票，要求提供与詹姆斯针对特朗普组织和全国步枪协会（NRA）案件相关的信息。</p>
</div><p>In the fraud case, which James brought against Trump in 2022, a trial court judge found Trump, his two eldest sons and the company liable for fraud. He ordered them to pay $464 million, plus daily interest that had raised the total to more than $527 million by Thursday’s appeals court ruling.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在詹姆斯于 2022 年对特朗普提起的欺诈案中，一名初审法官裁定特朗普、他的两个长子和公司对欺诈负责。他命令他们支付 4.64 亿美元，加上每日利息，到周四的上诉法院裁决时总额已超过 5.27 亿美元。</p>
</div><p>The five-judge panel in New York’s mid-level Appellate Division agreed on little more than that the monetary penalty was unlawfully excessive. Despite none of the court’s three opinions garnering majority support, a consensus was reached to move the case forward to the Court of Appeals, New York’s top court.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>纽约中级上诉法庭的五名法官在几乎没有达成一致的情况下，仅同意罚款金额违法过高。尽管法院的三份意见没有获得多数支持，但达成了一致意见，将案件推进至上诉法院，即纽约的最高法院。</p>
</div><p>“It almost looked to me like the Appellate Division was passing the buck to the Court of Appeals to make the final decision,” said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University and former New York prosecutor.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“在我看来，上诉法庭几乎是在把责任推给上诉法院来做最终决定，” 佩斯大学的法学教授、前纽约检察官本内特·格什曼说。</p>
</div><p>James sued the NRA and its top leadership in 2020. A judge last year found NRA head Wayne LaPierre misspent millions of the organization’s dollars to fund a lavish lifestyle and ordered him to pay the NRA $4.35 million in damages. The group’s retired former finance chief, Wilson Phillips, was ordered to pay $2 million to the NRA, and the court later directed the organization to enact more than a dozen reforms to its governance to avoid future violations.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>詹姆斯在 2020 年起诉了全国步枪协会及其高层领导。去年，一名法官裁定 NRA 负责人韦恩·拉皮尔挪用数百万美元用于奢华生活，并命令他向 NRA 支付 435 万美元的赔偿。该组织的退休前财务主管威尔逊·菲利普斯被命令向 NRA 支付 200 万美元，法院随后指示该组织实施十多项治理改革，以避免未来的违规行为。</p>
</div><p>Both the business fraud and NRA suits prompted criticism from the political right that James, a Democrat, was using her office to go after conservative leaders and companies.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>商业欺诈和 NRA 诉讼都引发了来自政治右派的批评，认为作为民主党的詹姆斯在利用她的职务追击保守派领导人和公司。</p>
</div><p>But the Trump administration’s focus on James now doesn’t stop at her work as New York’s attorney general.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>但特朗普政府目前对詹姆斯的关注并不仅限于她作为纽约检察长的工作。</p>
</div><p>The Justice Department is also probing a criminal referral made by the Federal Housing Finance Agency that alleges James claimed a Virginia home as her primary residence to secure advantageous loan terms. The agency suggested that James “falsified bank documents and property records” to acquire better terms.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>司法部还在调查联邦住房金融局提出的刑事转介，指控詹姆斯声称一处位于弗吉尼亚的房产是她的主要居所，以获得有利的贷款条件。该机构暗示詹姆斯 “伪造了银行文件和财产记录” 以获得更好的条件。</p>
</div><p>Ed Martin, now Trump’s “weaponization czar,” among other titles, after failing to earn Senate confirmation as U.S. attorney for D.C., was tapped to lead the investigation.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>现任特朗普 “武器化专员” 的埃德·马丁，在未能获得华盛顿特区美国检察官的参议院确认后，被指派领导该调查。</p>
</div><p>He wrote in a letter last week to James’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, that the New York attorney general would “best serve the good of the state and nation” by resigning from her post.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>他在上周给詹姆斯的律师阿贝·洛威尔的信中写道，纽约检察长 “最能为州和国家的利益服务” 的方式是辞去职务。</p>
</div><p>“I would take this as an act of good faith,” Martin wrote.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我会将此视为一种善意的行为，” 马丁写道。</p>
</div><p>He later posed for a photo outside James’s Brooklyn home. The Hill reached out for comment.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>他后来在詹姆斯位于布鲁克林的家外摆姿势拍照。《国会山》寻求对此的评论。</p>
</div><p>Lowell wrote in a Monday letter back to Martin obtained by The Hill that the display amounted to a breach of professional conduct, suggesting the “truly bizarre, made-for-media stunt” falls “outside the bounds of DOJ and ethics rules.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>洛威尔在周一给马丁的回信中表示，这一举动构成了职业行为的违反，暗示这一 “真正奇怪、为媒体而设的噱头” 超出了司法部和伦理规则的范围。</p>
</div><p>The lawyer also criticized Martin for seeming to seek “revenge” against James.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这位律师还批评马丁似乎在寻求对詹姆斯的 “报复”。</p>
</div><p>“All the above indicate to me that you are not conducting a serious investigation or review of ‘mortgage fraud,’ and that, despite the lack of evidence or law, you will take whatever actions you have been directed to take to make good on President Trump’s and Attorney General Bondi’s calls for revenge for that reason alone,” Lowell wrote.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“以上所有表明我认为你并没有进行严肃的 ‘抵押贷款欺诈’ 调查或审查，尽管缺乏证据或法律，你将采取任何你被指示采取的行动，以兑现特朗普总统和检察长邦迪对报复的呼吁，” 洛威尔写道。</p>
</div><p>Christian, who once tried a case against James, said she doesn’t think the attorney general will be intimidated by the Justice Department’s efforts but called them “highly unprofessional and just inappropriate.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>克里斯蒂安曾与詹姆斯对簿公堂，她表示她认为检察长不会被司法部的努力所威胁，但称这些努力 “极不专业且不恰当”。</p>
</div><p>“If it’s true that that’s the crime that they’re investigating, you can’t get more frivolous than that,” Christian said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“如果他们调查的确是这种罪行，那就没有比这更无聊的了，” 克里斯蒂安说。</p>
</div><p>The Justice Department’s probes follow years of accusations from Trump that James has weaponized the courts for political gain. A spokesperson for the president’s legal team on Thursday called the civil fraud case a “political crusade” and “lawfare campaign” against the president.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>司法部的调查是在特朗普多年来指控詹姆斯利用法院进行政治获利的背景下进行的。特朗普法律团队的一位发言人在周四称民事欺诈案是对总统的 “政治十字军” 和 “法律战争”。</p>
</div><p>One judge on the New York appeal court panel seemed to agree.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>纽约上诉法院小组中的一名法官似乎表示同意。</p>
</div><p>Judge David Friedman, who wrote one of the court’s three opinions, claimed the record made clear James sought to use the law and judicial system “for political ends,” pointing to the attorney general’s 2018 campaign vows to investigate Trump.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>法官大卫·弗里德曼撰写了法院三份意见之一，他声称记录清楚表明詹姆斯试图将法律和司法系统 “用于政治目的”，并指出检察长在 2018 年竞选时承诺调查特朗普。</p>
</div><p>But Judges Peter Moulton and Dianne Renwick, who wrote the principal opinion, said “the antithesis is true.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>但撰写主要意见的法官彼得·莫尔顿和黛安·伦威克表示 “恰恰相反”。</p>
</div><p>They argued that the “‘political’ choice” for James would have been to leave the case alone, avoiding a fight with a “powerful adversary.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>他们认为詹姆斯的 “‘政治’ 选择” 本应是置之不理，避免与 “强大的对手” 发生冲突。</p>
</div><p>“Her allegations have been tested at every stage of this maximalist litigation and for the most part have been upheld,” they wrote. “We now have before us the evidence the Attorney General amassed and it demonstrates that defendants engaged in a decade-long pattern of financial fraud and illegality.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“她的指控在这场极具挑战性的诉讼的每个阶段都经过了检验，并且在大多数情况下得到了支持，” 他们写道。“我们现在面前是检察长收集的证据，证明被告参与了长达十年的金融欺诈和非法行为。”</p>
</div><p>James herself on Thursday doubled down, saying that it should “not be lost to history” that another court had found Trump violated the law and her case has merit.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>詹姆斯本人在周四重申，应该 “不会被历史遗忘”，另一个法庭已发现特朗普违反了法律，她的案件是有依据的。</p>
</div><p>Though Trump and the other defendants have not yet said whether they will also appeal, a high-stakes battle at New York’s highest court seems destined.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>尽管特朗普和其他被告尚未表示他们是否也会上诉，但在纽约最高法院的这场高风险斗争似乎注定要发生。</p>
</div><p>“Everybody knows that what they’re deciding is a case involving the fate of the president of the United States — his business, his reputation,” Gershman said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“大家都知道，他们正在决定的是一个涉及美国总统命运的案件——他的商业、他的声誉，” 格尔施曼说。</p>
</div><p>“Is that going to be a significant factor? Who knows,” he added. “You can’t really do more than speculate.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“这会是一个重要因素吗？谁知道，” 他补充道。“你真的只能进行猜测。”</p>
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随着司法部压力活动的加剧，莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯将推进欺诈上诉