New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken aim at a deal struck by former President Donald Trump's company, filing a lawsuit alleging that it paid a French firm to cancel a lucrative offshore wind project in the state. The proposed project, which would have generated billions of dollars in revenue and created hundreds of jobs, was set to be built off the coast of Long Island. However, the lawsuit claims that Trump's company, the Trump Organization, paid the French firm, Éoliennes Offshore Saint-Nazaire, to terminate the deal, thereby blocking the project and denying New Yorkers the economic benefits it would have brought. The lawsuit raises questions about the motivations behind the deal and whether Trump's company acted in its own self-interest at the expense of the state's energy needs.
NY AG sues over Trump deal paying French firm to cancel offshore wind project Gothamist
