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☆ Letitia James is not done with Donald Trump. Now she wants to know if he withheld evidence in her fraud case.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Letitia James won a $454 million judgment against Trump, his penalty for a decade of fraud. She and Trump are now fighting over her claims that he withheld evidence from her fraud probe. "The Court is well within its authority to determine if Defendants and their counsel facilitated that perjury by withholding of incriminating documents," James argued in Tuesday night's letter. AdvertisementAt a hearing in April of 2022, he compared getting Trump's documents to "pulling teeth." Out of some 900,000 documents turned over, only ten were "custodial" Trump documents, meaning business files in the former president's direct custody.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 25, 2023. A judge ordered Donald Trump's company Thursday to inform a court-appointed financial watchdog about any efforts to obtain an appeal bond. His lawyers have said that more than 30 surety companies rejected writing a bond for Trump because they would not accept real estate as collateral. Trump has asked the appeals court to pause the judgment from taking effect without having to secure a bond. In his order Thursday, Engoron told the Trump Organization it must tell its financial overseer, Barbara Jones, "in advance, of any efforts to secure surety bonds."

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☆ How NY's Judge Engoron is tightening the leash on Trump ahead of looming Truth Social merger and fraud judgement deadline
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

There are currently 415 entities — including the LLCs holding his physical properties — under the Trump Org umbrella. Trust Revocable Trust, which holds all of Trump Org's assets and for which Trump is the sole beneficiary. The judge also ordered on Thursday that Trump foot the bill for the additional staff needed for this extra monitoring. More penaltiesViolations of Thursday's order could result in the judge ordering more penalties against Trump Org, the judge warned. Trump and his three codefendants — Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and former Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg — owe a combined fraud-trial penalty of $467 million as of Thursday, according to a penalty calculator maintained by the Associated Press.

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New York CNN —Donald Trump is facing a cash crunch as deadlines are quickly approaching to find over half a billion dollars he owes in judgments. The scramble over the past week reveals challenges Trump is facing in raising the combined judgments totaling $537 million. It’s unclear how much cash Trump has on hand. Trump offered to post a $100 million bond to cover the New York attorney general’s case, but the appeals court judge rejected it. The sheer size of the judgments raises practical questions about how the Trump could feasibly come up with the cash.

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☆ Fraud like nobody's watching: Trump was probed for 5 years, and still wouldn't clean up his act
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Donald Trump's fraud verdict targets three things he values dearly: his cash, his New York business address, and the Trump Organization steering wheel. Otherwise, as Engoron noted in his verdict, Trump, his company, and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, "are likely to continue their fraudulent ways." In previous years, Trump has settled allegations of fraud involving the Trump Foundation, Trump University, and the 2017 Inaugural Committee, Amer pointed out in closings. The same day James concluded her initial investigation and filed her massive Trump fraud lawsuit, on September 21, 2022, Trump incorporated "Trump Organization II" in what her office worried was an attempt to shift and protect assets. Advertisement"In short," they added, Trump and Trump Organization leadership "have proven themselves incapable, time and again, of following the law."

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In addition to the $355 million penalty — payback of what the judge deemed “ill-gotten gains” from his spurious financial statements — Trump is required to pay interest on that amount. James’ office calculates that, to date, Trump owes an additional $98.6 million in interest, bringing his total penalty to $453.5 million. Trump used $170 million of the $375 million to pay off a loan on the property. — $60 million, plus interest, from selling the rights to manage a New York City golf course in June 2023. Trump testified that regardless of what his financial statements said, banks did their own due diligence and would’ve qualified him for the loans anyway.

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☆ Trump is fighting back after a court monitor report that suggested he evaded taxes
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A letter from Donald Trump's court monitor in his fraud trial suggests he lied about a $48 million loan. The team also provided a memo from the Trump Org's legal department stating that the loan was paid off. AdvertisementDonald Trump is fighting back after a court monitor's footnote indicated that the former president may have committed tax fraud. The Daily Beast first reported on Sunday the note from Jones is a clue Trump used a fake $48 million loan as a vessel to avoid paying income taxes. Advertisement"It would appear, assuming Judge Jones' letter is accurate, that this amounts to tax evasion," Martin Lobel, a tax lawyer, told The Daily Beast.

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☆ Trump lashes out at financial monitor in business fraud case after she reports errors
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the financial monitor overseeing the Trump Organization and urged a judge to fire her days after she reported a range of issues — and flagged a questionable $48 million loan — in the former president's New York civil business fraud case. New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked Engoron to order that Jones continue to monitor the Trump Organization for at least five years as part of his judgment in the case. Robert made that argument three days after Jones submitted a report to Engoron accusing the Trump Organization of providing incomplete, inconsistent or incorrect information about its financial disclosures. In a footnote in that report, Jones said she identified a loan between Trump himself and an entity related to Trump Chicago Tower that later turned out not to exist. She also seeks five-year bans with the same conditions for Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who took over the Trump Organization after their father became president in 2017.

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☆ As Trump Awaits Fraud Penalty, a Monitor’s Report Could Raise His Risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | Ben Protess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a monthslong trial, the attorney general, Letitia James, asked for a penalty of roughly $370 million, which would come on the heels of a separate jury verdict in a defamation case requiring Mr. Trump to pay $83.3 million. The new accusations against Mr. Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, came late last week in a report from an outside monitor whom Justice Engoron assigned in late 2022 to keep an eye on the company. The monitor, Barbara Jones, a former federal judge, has overseen how the company represents its finances to lenders. Her report highlighted several paperwork issues at a family company trying to shake a legacy of sloppiness: missing disclosures, typos, math errors and questions about a $48 million loan between Mr. Trump and one of his companies. Ms. Jones, now a law firm partner, told the judge that collectively, the issues “may reflect a lack of adequate internal controls.”

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☆ Special monitor suggests Trump falsified disclosures over $48 million loan in what could be tax evasion, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Jones and Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. A 'pretty brazen' plotGarten told The Daily Beast an "internal loan" wherein Trump "leant money to the entity that he owns" does exist. "It would appear, assuming Judge Jones' letter is accurate, that this amounts to tax evasion," Martin Lobel, a tax lawyer, told The Daily Beast. So, instead of paying income taxes of up to 39% on the forgiven debt, the outlet reported, Trump "invented a loan — and then parked it."

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☆ The man who leaked Trump's taxes eluded investigators for years but was finally found after leaking info on Musk and Bezos, WSJ reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Charles Littlejohn confessed to leaking Donald Trump's tax returns. The investigators had focused on Littlejohn for a separate leak involving billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. On two separate occasions, Littlejohn provided tax documents belonging to Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk to two news organizations. Trump's tax returns showed the former president paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. Musk's tax returns showed he paid $455 million in taxes on $1.52 billion in income between 2014 and 2018.

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The financial watchdog overseeing the Trump Organization informed a New York judge on Wednesday about $40 million in cash transfers that were not previously disclosed as required to that court-appointed monitor. A review of bank statements since January shows that there were "three cash transfers exceeding $5 million each, totaling approximately $40 million," she wrote. Kise's statement referenced Jones' last regular report to the judge, which she sent in August. In that previous letter, Jones notified Engoron about what she described as issues of incompleteness and inconsistency in certain disclosures to lenders and others by the Trump Organization. A spokeswoman for New York Attorney General Letitia James had no comment on Jones' letter.

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☆ Fraud-trial judge saves Trump from what could have been a shoot-self-in-foot plan to call Trump Org's court-ordered watchdog as a defense witness
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The judge nixed that plan; meanwhile, on December 11, Trump will be his own final defense witness. In her 12 months as Trump Org's independent watchdog, Jones, a retired federal judge, has repeatedly described Trump Org's ongoing difficulties with thoroughness and transparency. New York Unified Court System"Were you aware that Judge Jones had prepared a report, saying that certain reporting has been incomplete?" "Were you aware that Judge Jones had identified such inconsistencies?" It is the ninth week of trial, and the third week of Trump's defense case.

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☆ Tempest in a triplex: Trump accused of failing to turn over fraud-trial documents relating to his NY penthouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A civil fraud trial, at which Trump risks being banned from doing business in NY, is in week three. Evidence 'omissions' include emails to Forbes concerning the worth of Trump's NY penthouse. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Trump Organization may have failed to turn over fraud-trial evidence relating to the size of Donald Trump's triplex penthouse, New York officials alleged on Thursday, in demanding a new "forensic" search of the company's business records. "In some instances, it's been pulling teeth to get documents," Wallace complained during a hearing in April of last year. But these had not been turned over by the Trump Organization, the letter said.

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The appellate court last week rejected the defense’s last-minute effort to delay the trial just days before it began. On Thursday, Trump’s lawyers dropped a lawsuit they filed against Engoron as part of that challenge. Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe appellate court has yet to rule on the latest appeal. Trump's lawyers argued that Engoron had “no rationale or legal authority” to impose what they described as “the corporate death penalty." “Perhaps most alarming is (the court's) incomprehension of the sweeping and significant consequences of its own ruling,” Trump's lawyers said in their appeal Friday, describing Engoron’s ruling as an “overbroad directive that sows confusion and chaos in its implementation.”

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☆ Trump lawyers seek halt to civil fraud trial, arguing dissolving his companies would 'sow confusion and chaos'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump's lawyers are trying to halt his $250M civil fraud trial. Judge Engoron's ruling would "sow confusion and chaos," Trump's lawyers argue. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe appellate court last week rejected the defense's last-minute effort to delay the trial just days before it began. But, only if the trial proceeds as scheduled, Senior Assistant Solicitor General Dennis Fan wrote in a letter to the appellate court. Trump's lawyers argued that Engoron had "no rationale or legal authority" to impose what they described as "the corporate death penalty."

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NEW YORK (AP) — An accountant who prepared Donald Trump's financial statements was back on the witness stand for a fourth day Thursday in the New York civil fraud trial examining whether the former president exaggerated his wealth. The business fraud trial stems from New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit alleging that Trump and his business ginned up financial statements that vastly overvalued Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago and other assets. James is seeking $250 million in penalties and a ban on Trump doing business in New York. The witnesses so far have been two accountants who worked on the financial statements, which went to banks, insurers and others. The defense has been trying to show that if there were problems with the financial statements, the flubs were accountant Donald Bender's fault.

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☆ Will the Trumps lose their homes? NY judge who dissolved Trump Org is cryptic at a tense hearing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump's lawyers were back on Wednesday before the NY judge who on Tuesday "dissolved" Trump Org. One asked the judge if the LLCs that own the Trumps' homes are covered under the dissolution. But concern – including over the fate of the Trump residences that are held as LLCs under the Trump Org umbrella – was present in abundance. At Wednesday's morning-long hearing, the judge gave Trump's side the 30 days they requested to agree to a receiver. 'You have New York entities that just own a house or a townhouse.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Does a judge’s fraud finding spell the end of Donald Trump ’s real estate empire? He decried Tuesday’s ruling, which shifts control of some of his companies to a court-appointed receiver, as the “KILL TRUMP” decision. As he quizzed the judge, Kise noted that some of the Trump entities being stripped of their business licenses own properties such as Trump Tower and an office building at 40 Wall Street, both in Manhattan. “Is it the court’s position that those assets are now going to be sold or just going to be managed under the direction of the (receiver)?” Kise asked. That would far exceed even the highest value he listed for Mar-a-Lago on his financial statements, $739 million in 2018.

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☆ Trump Organization monitor flags 'incomplete,' 'inconsistent' financial disclosures
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on as he speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2023. The independent financial monitor for the Trump Organization told a New York judge she identified issues of incompleteness and inconsistency in certain disclosures to lenders and others by the company owned by former president Donald Trump. CNBC has reached out to lawyers and representatives of the Trump Organization requesting comment about Jones' claims. The former federal judge was appointed in November as a financial monitor as part of a case where the company, Trump and several of his children are being sued by New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged widespread fraud related to financial statements. James, last year, requested an outside monitor after becoming concerned that Trump was trying to move the legal structure of his companies out of New York to avoid her jurisdiction.

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☆ Trump Org's new court-appointed 'watchdog,' retired judge Barbara Jones, can now inspect the company books
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Retired federal judge Barbara Jones, left, is the newly-appointed special monitor for the real estate company owned by former President Donald Trump, right. Jones will monitor for what a Manhattan judge has termed persistent fraud at Donald Trump's company. The company must give her at least 30 days' notice of any plan to sell "significant" assets or restructure the company. Trump's company must pay Jones and any other professionals she reasonably finds necessary for her work. The longtime company financial executive must testify truthfully to keep his August low-jail tax-fraud plea deal.

☆ The notable legal clouds that continue to hang over Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Dan Berman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

CNN —All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, whose third White House bid has already become mired in controversy. The Justice Department investigation continues into whether documents from the Trump White House were illegally mishandled when they were brought to Mar-a-Lago in Florida after he left office. Any unauthorized retention or destruction of White House documents could violate a criminal law that prohibits the removal or destruction of official government records, legal experts told CNN. During the panel’s hearings this summer, fingers were pointed at GOP lawmakers and Trump allies who tried to help overturn the election and Trump White House officials who failed to stop the former president’s actions. Recently, DOJ moved to compel additional testimony from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin.

Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges in a grand jury investigation that looked into whether he violated U.S. lobbying laws in his dealings with Ukraine, prosecutors said Monday. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and whether he ran afoul of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney, told NBC News that he and his client are pleased with the formal decision not to bring charges in that investigation is now public. Costello, a former U.S. attorney in the office Giuliani once led, said Monday that it was unusual for prosecutors to release letters like the court filing revealing no charges against Giuliani. The judge presiding over that case, Arthur Engoron, said a decision outlining her specific "duties, powers and fees will be "forthcoming shortly."

☆ Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges in Ukraine foreign lobbying case, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges in an investigation into whether he violated U.S. lobbying laws while doing business in Ukraine, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday. The grand jury was examining whether he violated the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, and his attempts to oust Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador there. Williams asked the judge in the same letter to terminate the appointment of former federal judge Barbara Jones as a special master, or watchdog, to review documents seized from Giuliani. Giuliani, along with Trump, still faces an ongoing criminal probe by a grand jury in Georgia, which is investigating interference in that state's presidential election in 2020. Giuliani's license to practice law in Washington, D.C., soon after was suspended automatically as a result of the New York suspension.

☆ Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges from a foreign lobbying investigation led by his former prosecutor's office, feds say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Federal prosecutors in New York have declined to bring criminal charges against Rudy Giuliani following an investigation centered on whether the former New York City mayor illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials. In a court filing Monday, the Justice Department said a grand jury investigation into Giuliani had concluded, and "based on information currently available to the government, criminal charges are not forthcoming." Prosecutors filed that notification more than a year after the FBI searched his home and office. Following that April 2021 search, a federal judge in Manhattan appointed an outside arbiter — known as a special master — to oversee the review of materials seized by the FBI. With its filing Monday, the Justice Department asked the court to end the appointment of that special master, Barbara Jones, a retired federal judge in Manhattan.

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