Meet the NYC cabbie-turned-judge overseeing Trump’s ‘corporate death penalty’ civil fraud trialas a vanity project – to climb up Forbes’ list of billionaires – and also so he could save millions on loan and insurance terms, the New York Attorney General’s Office claimed at the start of the former president’s $250 million civil fraud trial Monday.
Trump and his co-defendants – including the Trump Organization and his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. – lied “year after year after year” on financial statements to inflate the value of their assets, Wallace said. In one instance, the defendants allegedly lied about the size of the ex-president’s triplex apartment at Trump Tower, saying it wasDeposition clips from Trump and his sons were also played in court, in which they all claimed they didn’t have direct involvement in the statements of financial conditions that the AG claims were falsified from 2011 through 2021.
The attorney said the email was proof of the real estate mogul’s vanity – and also ensured that he could get into a special program by the bank for people worth $3 billion or more that came with special interest rates. “President Trump has made billions of dollars building one of the most successful real estate empires in the world, he has made a fortune on being right about real estate investments,” Kise said.He attempted to debunk the argument that the crimes weren’t victimless by claiming that the banks made “well over $100 million” off of his client’s accounts and adding that all the loans were repaid.
The case is expected to see witnesses including Trump, Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka, Weisselberg and Cohen. But Cohen’s testimony is likely to be pivotal to helping prove James’ case.“We have a racist attorney general who is a horror show who ran on the basis that she’s going to get trump before she knew anything about me,” Trump blasted, of the black AG, as he stood just outside of the courtroom. “It’s a scam, it’s a sham. Just so you know my financial statements are phenomenal.