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The judge described how Trump, his adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization and other defendants made up valuations and inflated Trump's net worth to suit their business needs. Trump and the other defendants have argued that they never committed fraud, and that the challenged transactions were profitable. Engoron said James submitted "conclusive evidence" that Trump had overstated his net worth by between $812 million and $2.2 billion. Engoron's decision does not automatically mean James' fraud case will go to trial next Monday. Trump has sued to delay the trial, accusing Engoron and James of ignoring the appeals court order to narrow the case.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House. Engoron’s ruling, in a phase of the case known as summary judgment, resolves the key claim in James’ lawsuit, but several others remain. “Today, a judge ruled in our favor and found that Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in years of financial fraud," James said in a statement. James’ lawsuit is one of several legal headaches for Trump, the Republican front-runner in next year's election. James’ lawsuit does not carry the potential of prison time, but could complicate Trump's ability to transact real estate deals.

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[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs from Trump Tower to give a deposition to New York Attorney General Letitia James who sued Trump and his Trump Organization, in New York City, U.S., April 13, 2023. James has accused Trump of repeatedly lying in financial statements to obtain better terms on loans and insurance. Last week, Trump accused James of ignoring the decision and Engoron of refusing to implement it, and said the trial should be delayed. She said even a brief delay "would likely wreak havoc" on the trial and other trials that Trump faces. James' lawsuit seeks to bar Trump and his adult sons Donald Jr. And Eric from running businesses in New York.

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☆ In victory for Trump, an appellate court in Manhattan grants a temporary stay in his October business-fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump and Trump Org were due to start trial on October 2 over New York's accusations of widespread business fraud. Thursday, an appellate judge in Manhattan granted what may only be a temporary hold on that date. The parties will now spend two weeks mired in an appellate-level, litigation side-show over Trump's claim that NY's case is too old. Four legal sources confirmed the new litigation sideshow and Thursday's trial date stay for Insider. AdvertisementAdvertisement"We are confident in our case and will be ready for trial," a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said late Thursday.

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☆ Trump's Manhattan business-fraud trial will last three months and may end just before Christmas
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The judge for Donald Trump's $250 million New York business-fraud trial has set a grueling three-month schedule. Lawyers for Trump and 14 co-defendants in the civil trial must share 120 minutes for opening statements. The judge who will preside over an upcoming $250 million civil fraud trial — at which New York Attorney General Letitia James will seek to permanently ban Trump's company from the state — has set a grueling three-month schedule. InsiderLawyers for the attorney general will have 90 minutes to make an opening statement. The parties are scheduled to appear in Engoron's Manhattan courtroom on September 22 for pretrial arguments.

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☆ Trump bid to delay $250 million New York fraud trial is 'completely without merit,' judge says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A New York judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's request to delay his sweeping civil fraud trial, calling the former president's request "completely without merit." The order keeps the case on track to become Trump's first trial since he left the White House in 2021. Engoron's rebuke came one day after James asked the judge to sanction Trump and others in the case for repeatedly putting forward the same failed legal arguments. James asked the judge to issue a combined $10,000 fine to all the defendants, and another collective fine of $10,000 on their lawyers. Late last month, James asked Engoron to grant partial summary judgment against Trump, pointing to what she called a "mountain of undisputed evidence" backing up her allegations.

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☆ Manhattan judge rejects Trump effort to delay October business-fraud trial as 'completely without merit'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 26 days, Trump, his sons, and his real-estate empire are scheduled in a civil fraud trial in New York. On Wednesday, a judge rejected Trump's bid to delay the trial as "completely without merit." The decision follows legal filings in which New York's attorney general seeks to fine Trump and his co-defendants $10,000 each for trying to delay the trial through "frivolous conduct." A Manhattan judge's handwritten response to Donald Trump's latest bid to delay his October 2, 2023, civil business-fraud trial. His decisions on the attorney general's request for $10,000 sanctions, and for at least a partial trial victory, are pending.

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☆ Trump loses bid to delay October 2 fraud trial where New York attorney general will try to run him out of state
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A judge denied Trump's request for a six-month delay for his October 2 fraud trial in New York. State Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, his family, and his business in September. The judge declined to move the trial date even though lawyers for Trump said Tuesday that even just a three-week delay would be useful. But the attorney general alleges a decade-long pattern of fraudulent valuations that go beyond the subjective, one of James' lawyers said. "Our complaint shows that there were objective facts that are false," assistant attorney general Kevin Wallace told the judge.

☆ Appeals court upholds $110,000 contempt fine for Trump in New York attorney general case
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Miami, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2022. Attorney General Letitia James applauded the two-page ruling issued by the state Supreme Court Appellate Division's First Judicial Department. The five-justice panel ruled that Trump's contempt fine for not complying with a subpoena for the records was a "proper exercise" of the Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron's discretionary power. "Once again, the courts have ruled that Donald Trump is not above the law," James said. In addition to huge financial damages, James' suit to seeks to permanently bar Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump from serving as an officer of a company in New York, and permanently bar the Trump companies named as defendants from doing business in New York state.

☆ New York wants Trump sanctioned over his 'meritless' claims, including that Trump Org doesn't really exist
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump, his family, and Trump Org made 'meritless' responses to NY's 2022 fraud lawsuit, the AG says. Trump claimed Trump Org can't be named in the AG's suit because it does not exist as a legal entity. On Thursday, Trump objected to the attorney general's use of the words "Trump Organization," and then blanket-denied everything else in the 29th paragraph. The attorney general's demand for sanctions will be heard Wednesday in Engoron's Manhattan courtroom. The second — for allegedly making "frivolous" claims against the attorney general's office — was ultimately rejected by Engoron.

☆ A Manhattan judge is weighing new sanctions against Trump's lawyers — this time over 'frivolous litigation'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Manhattan judge is threatening to sanction Donald Trump's lawyers over 'frivolous litigation'. Justice Arthur Engoron is presiding over the NY attorney general's case against Trump's business. That rejection had come in November, in his denial of Trump's request for a preliminary injunction halting the attorney general's lawsuit. Engoron had asked the attorney general's office and Trump's defense lawyers to respond to his "frivolous litigation" accusation within one day. Engoron's email — subject-lined "POTENTIAL SANCTIONS FOR FRIVOLOUS LITIGATION — did not indicate when he will decide on whether to impose sanctions or detail what those sanctions might be.

Trump, a Republican, has accused James, a Democrat, of suing him because she dislikes him and his politics. The Trump Organization is now on trial in another Manhattan courtroom on criminal tax fraud charges. Trump also faces a criminal investigation in Georgia into whether he interfered with the 2020 election results in that state. "Who stands to gain from this highly-politicized farse [sic], aside from the politically-compromised Attorney General of the State of New York?" Both testified as prosecution witnesses in the Manhattan criminal trial in which prosecutors accused the company of engaging in tax fraud spanning 15 years.

☆ 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.

☆ Judge appoints independent monitor to oversee Trump Org financial reporting in NY AG fraud suit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A New York court Monday appointed retired Judge Barbara Jones to oversee some of the Trump Organization's financial statements as part of a lawsuit alleging widespread fraud by former President Donald Trump, his businesses and his family members. Both Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who filed the sweeping fraud suit in September, had recommended Jones as their top pick to serve as independent monitor in the case. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron had earlier this month approved James' request to appoint a third-party entity to oversee a range of Trump Org financial statements and other records. She noted that the Trump Organization had registered a new entity called Trump Organization II on the same day the lawsuit was filed. The judge ordered the defendants to provide the monitor with financial statements, statements of financial condition, asset valuation disclosures and other disclosures to lenders, insurers and other financial institutions.

☆ Ex-special master in Giuliani case named watchdog of Trump Organization
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Nov. 3 won a court order to appoint an independent monitor for the Trump Organization as part of her $250 million civil fraud lawsuit accusing Trump and the Trump Organization of overvaluing assets and Trump's net worth. Arthur Engoron, the Manhattan-based New York state supreme court judge overseeing the case, wrote in a court filing on Monday that Jones had confirmed in a telephone call that she will accept the appointment. In June 2021, Jones was selected as a court-appointed "special master" to review evidence seized from Giuliani as part of a probe into his business dealings in Ukraine. Trump and the Trump Organization had also recommended Kelly Donovan, a managing director at accounting firm KPMG and former lawyer with the New York state attorney general's office, as a possible candidate. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Companies Trump Organization Inc FollowNEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday appealed a judge's order to install a watchdog at the Trump Organization before a civil fraud case by the state's attorney general goes to trial. Engoron's order bars the defendants from transferring assets without court approval, and requires that the monitor receive a "full and accurate description" of the Trump Organization's structure and assets. In a notice of appeal filed on Monday, Trump's lawyer Alina Habba and lawyers for his children, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr., said the defendants asked the Appellate Division, a mid-level state appeals court, to review Engoron's order, without laying out her legal arguments. Trump, a Republican, last week called Engoron's order "ridiculous," and the Trump Organization called it an "obvious attempt" to influence Tuesday's midterm U.S. elections. The case is among many legal battles Trump faces as he mulls a 2024 bid for the presidency.

A New York state judge on Thursday ordered an independent monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's financial statements following allegations that the company has been vastly overstating its assets. In a hearing in state Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan, Trump attorney Chris Kise argued the move was unnecessary and could hamper the company's business. The motion for a preliminary injunction said Trump Organization representatives created a new company with the same name in Delaware six days before James’ office brought the suit. The company then filed paperwork to register Trump Organization II LLC in New York on Sept. 21, the same day the civil action was filed. In a letter to Engoron on Thursday morning, James' office said the trust documents "pertain to ownership and control of the business assets."

☆ Judge approves independent monitor to oversee Trump Organization financial reporting in win for New York AG
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The entrance to Trump Tower on 5th Avenue is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, May 19, 2021. A New York state judge has approved the appointment of a special monitor to oversee the Trump Organization's financial statements and reports, and has barred the company from transferring any non-cash assets without notifying the court and the state attorney general's office in advance. The suit accused the Trumps and other senior Trump Organization officials of decades of fraud related to financial statements. Engoron's written order said the appointment of an independent monitor was justified given the "persistent misrepresentations throughout every one of Mr. Trump's [Statements of Financial Condition] between 20112 and 2021." The monitor would "ensure there is no further fraud or illegality that violates" the New York state law prohibiting fraud.

☆ The Trumps really, really, wanted a new judge in NY's $250M fraud lawsuit. But that judge's boss just said no.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump and his sons had repeatedly asked for a new judge in NY's $250 million fraud lawsuit. The current judge, state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, once held Trump in contempt of court. James is especially concerned that Trump may try to move assets from the Trump Organization to a new entity he created, the Trump Organization II. Trump's lawyer in the matter, Habba, called James' latest demands a "stunt." In a press statement Thursday she said, "We have repeatedly provided assurance, in writing, that the Trump Organization has no intention of doing anything improper."

☆ Donald Trump finally gets served $250 million NY fraud lawsuit after 3 weeks — and a court order
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NY's attorney general, Letitia James, sued the Trump Organization back on September 21. Reps for Donald Trump and Eric Trump finally got served, the AG said Thursday. Service took three weeks — and a judge's order — with the AG accusing Trump of 'gamesmanship.' Lawyers for all of the suit's other defendants, including Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., had meanwhile quickly accepted service. Habba and Robert have not responded to Insider's requests for comment on the delay in service of the lawsuit.

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