The California auto loan king behind Donald Trump’s $175m bond to stave collections while he appeals a $454m civil fraud judgment has said he was “happy to do it”. #Don#Hankey, chairman and majority shareholder of #Knight#Specialty#Insurance, told CNN that his underwriting of Trump’s loan was “what we do”.
“I’m happy to do it. We would have done it for anybody else,” the 80-year-old said. “It was an easy transaction. It was put together very quickly.”
The bond filing to the court came three days ahead of a deadline on Trump and his company imposed by a New York appeals court.
Hankey told the network that Knight Specialty Insurance Company used a combination of cash and investment-grade bonds to pay the fee.
Hankey noted to CNN and other outlets that his company had initiated the deal,
reaching out to Trump before the appeals court reduced the amount the former president would have to pay while his appeal was heard.
The billionaire, who the network reported is worth more than $7.4bn, also confirmed to Forbes that he and his wife, as well as their two sons, supported Trump’s past political campaigns and would do so again.
“I’d never met Donald Trump,” he told Forbes. “I’d never talked to him on the phone. I heard that he needed a loan or a bond, and this is what we do. So, we reached out, and he responded.”
The $175m bond holds the New York attorney general, Letitia James, at bay while Trump takes the judgment to appeal. James said as the initial deadline approached last month that she was ready to start seizing properties https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/02/donald-trump-bond-paid-don-hankey?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Did you know that there's a place in #Europe that still has a #feudal system?
The #crown dependency of #Sark is a curious place. It has no paved #roads & #cars are forbidden, #women only got the right to inherit #property in 1999, & the whole island is, to this day, a fiefdom.
This means the #monarch is the head, with a #lord (seigneur here) as the executive power & the tenants (effectively liegemen) as the vassals.
Death on the Pale Horse (1865) by Gustave Doré (French artist, lived 1832–1883). Print from illustrated edition of the Bible. Death rides into the world on a pale horse. He is the fourth knight of the apocalypse. Hell follows him.
I love everything related to Arthurian Legend and am always excited to discover new book adaptations on the subject, especially when it is a picture book ! Sir Morien isn’t a well known Knight of the Round Table, so it is a very interesting choice made by the authors to retell his story.
From all the art supplies I kept out of storage boxes, this cheap sketchbook gives me a hard time, as it's losing its "sizing" after a single wash of watercolor (basically, paint spills where you don't actually paint on). This can destroy a painting, and it did this one (the burgundy color on her armor is not what I had in mind, but I had to use it in order to cover the spillage). Oh well. I mostly did this painting to play with light and shininess, and I managed that at the end, so I'm happy.
Greycess Knight RPG is a very basic free/libre game. It is a turn-by-turn RPG (role playing game). It is in grayscale with a GBA view logical size. It is made in C99 with SDL2. Available languages are French and English.
Die Serie handelt von Michael Knight und seinem sprechenden Auto K.I.T.T., das über eine künstliche Intelligenz verfügt. Gemeinsam kämpfen sie im Auftrag der Foundation für Recht und Verfassung (Foundation For Law And Government) gegen Unrecht und Verbrechen. Die Missionen führen Knight zu den unterschiedlichsten Menschen in den verschiedensten Gegenden der USA und Mexikos. Unterstützt wird er dabei vom Leiter der Foundation für Recht und Verfassung, Devon Miles sowie Dr. Bonnie Barstow bzw. April Curtis, Elektronik- und Computer-Expertinnen sowie Chef-Mechanikerinnen von K.I.T.T.
WWE ROYAL RUMBLE Discussion Thread 01/27/24
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Greycess Knight RPG (libregamewiki.org)
Greycess Knight RPG is a very basic free/libre game. It is a turn-by-turn RPG (role playing game). It is in grayscale with a GBA view logical size. It is made in C99 with SDL2. Available languages are French and English.
OC drawing of a German City Gate from 1594. Research and concept made by me.