Quora Answer: What Ability Might the Trump Organization Have to Prevent Its Insurance Broker from Complying with New York Prosecutors?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “What ability might the Trump Organization have, if any, to prevent its insurance broker from complying with the New York prosecutors’ demanding records?”

Trump Organization, for all the political clout of the owners, is still only a company registered in a state.  It can obfuscate, it can delay, it can throw up legal barriers.  In the end, it either complies or faces severe legal actions that include dissolution and seizure of assets.   The company may attempt to shift operations out of New York, but they cannot move the buildings, the golf course, the malls they own.  These are all subject to seizure, in the most extreme cases.  The broker is an external company. They are not going to take the risk of losing their licence, and their owners and brokers are not going to risk jail. In the end, although it may take time, someone will talk.