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David Fahrenthold
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NEW: Trump’s Chicago hotel is violating environmental laws by sucking millions of gallons of water from the Chicago River w/out a permit, judge rules. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-hotel-lawsuit/2021/02/05/014484a2-67fd-11eb-8c64-9595888caa15_story.html

[jpak]

1. Shut him off

Lock him up

Yup

[napi21]

2. Can't DT's people ever do anything legal? I swear, it doesn't matter what they're doing, where

they're doing it, or who they''re doing it to, there's always some illegality inside somewhere!

[marked50]

3. Remember, it's a Trump pet peeve to have no low volume

toilets or low flow shower heads. Why stick to permits when you have promised those things to your building tenants. Did they ever ask any questions?

[Blue Owl]

4. What's that -- tRump is sucking?

[bamagal62]

5. Lock him up.

Why anyone in Chicago allowed him to build that hotel is beyond me. Everyone here hates him.

[JHB]

6. There's your headline: TRUMP SUCKS

[CatWoman]

7. LOL!!!!

The attorney general’s office has asked for the maximum penalty: $50,000 each for two violations, and an extra $10,000 for each day the violations persisted. In theory, that could add up to more than $12 million in fines. But people familiar with the case said that fines in such circumstances were rarely that high.

Trump’s company and his attorney did not respond to questions about the case Friday. In the past, Trump’s company has called the suit politically motivated, and said that the state has given other violators a break when they missed similar deadlines.

A spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) said Raoul’s office was pleased with the judge’s ruling, but that “this does not conclude the litigation.”

“We will continue to seek to hold the defendants accountable for violations of Illinois’ environmental laws that jeopardized the quality of the Chicago River,” said the spokeswoman, Annie Thompson.

The lawsuit against Trump’s hotel was filed in 2018, under Raoul’s predecessor, Lisa Madigan (D).