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New York is suing Donald Trump for fraud. Three questions.

On Wednesday, when New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil complaint against Donald Trump and other executives in his business organization, she added yet another front in the many legal battles the former president now faces.

In this case, the New York attorney general announced that the stakes in this civil complaint were high: She is seeking to bar Mr. Trump and three of his adult children – Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump – from ever running a business in their former home state again.

“It’s one of a big stack now,” says Cassandra Burke Robertson, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. “The former president is facing a lot of legal peril from a lot of different angles, too, and I don’t know which is going to end up being the most significant.”

Why did New York

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