If Trump's real estate empire is 'dissolved' under New York anti-fraud law, it will be one of only a dozen times it's happened -- and the first without an obvious victim

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "Engoron said that by Jan. 31 he will issue a ruling that is expected to decide on the cash penalty and business ban and clarify his "dissolution" order.
56% : But Trump did offer a guarantee, even if his estimate of his personal wealth was exaggerated.
52% : Trump eventually settled this and related cases for $25 million.
44% : His nonprofit Trump Foundation agreed to shut down in 2018 over allegations he misused funds for political and business interests.
42% : And though the bank offered Trump lower interest rates because he had agreed to personally guarantee the loans with his own money, it's not clear how much better the rates were because of the inflated figures.
39% : Trump has repeatedly said in impromptu rants at his trial that the case is a meritless, political "witch hunt" because he is richer than the statements sent to banks suggest, and lenders didn't care about those figures anyway because they always did their own analysis, always got paid back in full and continued to lend to him.
32% : Among them: Trump exaggerated the size of his Manhattan penthouse apartment by three times.
30% : "Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, has focused his ire at potentially losing his business at both the Democratic New York attorney general who brought the case and the judge presiding over it.
29% : He said Trump should then be stripped of control over those companies, which are the official owners of his Fifth Avenue headquarters and other marquee properties, and have them turned over to a receiver who will manage the "dissolution" of them.
24% : Within days, Donald 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.
24% : I am an innocent man," Trump said in a six-minute statement in court earlier this month before the judge cut him off.To be sure, the attorney general's office has argued that there are larger issues than victim losses at play in Trump's case.
19% : In an order last September that's currently under appeal, State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said Trump had indeed committed fraud and should have the state certificates needed to run many of his New York companies revoked.
17% : For her part, New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked that Trump be banned from doing business in New York and pay $370 million, what she estimates is saved interest and other "ill-gotten gains."
16% : "Those who want to see Donald Trump suffer by any means necessary," he said, "risk ignoring the very commitment to a rule of law that they accuse him of flouting."
13% : In making her case against Trump, Letitia James called to the stand a lending expert who estimated that Deutsche Bank gave up $168 million in extra interest on its Trump loans, basing his calculations as if Trump never offered a personal guarantee.

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