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"If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will
seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask
the judge to seize his assets," James told ABC News.
A New York judge last week ordered Trump, the former Republican
president and frontrunner for his party's White House
nomination, to pay the fine after ruling that he committed
repeated and persistent fraud, overstating his net worth by as
much as much as $3.6 billion a year to obtain better loan terms.
Trump denies all wrongdoing and is appealing the fine. He has
accused James, an elected Democrat, of bias.
Trump's appeal of the judgment may focus on his contention that
there were no actual victims from the conduct in the case.
But James told ABC that she is confident of the strength of her
case, adding that "financial frauds are not victimless crimes."
"He engaged in this massive amount of fraud. It wasn't just a
simple mistake, a slight oversight, the variations are wildly
exaggerated, and the extent of the fraud was staggering," James
said.
(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Longmont, Colorado; editing by
Miral Fahmy)
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