Trump $175 Million Bond Arranged by Billionaire Supporter's Firm

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump used a unit of Chubb Ltd. to arrange his bond in the Carroll case.
62% : Read More: Keeping Up With Trump and His Trials: A Timeline of Court DatesMost Read from Bloomberg Businessweek
50% : Read More: Donald Trump Is Richer Than Ever -- Yet Still Strapped For CashKnight is one of several affiliated companies that are part of the Los Angeles-based Hankey Group, a homegrown empire that also owns Westlake Financial Services, Hankey Capital and a Toyota dealership in North Hollywood.
49% : "We have the liquidity and I'm just happy to provide it."Read More: Trump Pays $175 Million Bond to Avert Asset SeizureHankey, 80, said his support for Trump had nothing to do with his decision to offer his company's services to the former president, who is campaigning to return to the White House in the November election.
48% : The bond gives Trump a lifeline by putting a $454 million judgment on hold while he appeals.
33% : A few weeks later the judge overseeing New York's fraud case ordered Trump to pay $454 million for inflating the value of his assets in bank transactions for more than a decade to get better terms on loans.
30% : "I have never met Donald Trump nor talked to him on the phone.
29% : The appeals court lowered the bond to $175 million after Trump said he didn't have enough cash.
26% : "The niche appeal bond industry was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year after Trump lost two civil trials with combined damages of more than half a billion dollars.
26% : Trump said 30 companies he reached out to would only take cash, and that he didn't have enough, raising the prospect that New York Attorney General Letitia James, who filed the fraud suit, could start seizing his assets.
20% : In January, a jury hit Trump with $83.3 million in damages in a defamation suit by writer E. Jean Carroll.

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