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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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A New York judge on Friday ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $364 million in damages for fraud he committed by inflating his net worth to obtain favorable treatment from banks and insurers. The blistering 92-page ruling from Judge Arthur Engoron was replete with references to the brazen nature of the misdeeds of Trump, his adult sons and his business organization. Here are nine key quotes from Engoron’s ruling. The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience.”On the reaction of Trump and his adult sons:“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff.

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☆ Donald Trump is set to be the last defense witness called in his civil fraud trial next month
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Attorneys for Donald Trump told the court Monday that they plan to call the former president to the stand on December 11 as their last witness in the New York civil fraud trial. His son Eric Trump, also a defendant, is slated to testify on December 6, according to Trump attorney Chris Kise. This will be the former president and Eric Trump’s second trip to the witness stand as they were called by the New York attorney general’s office earlier this month. Trump Organization executive Patrick Birney is currently testifying for the defense. His testimony follows Trump Organization hotels Chief Operating Officer Mark Hawthorn, who had been on the stand for most of Monday.

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☆ Former Trump Org. controller breaks down in tears on witness stand in fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Trump attorney Alina Habba motioned to a court officer to bring him a box of tissues. At one point while reviewing his own handwritten notes, McConney acknowledged his memory was “incorrect” about a specific disclosure on Trump’s statement. Amer showed the court handwritten notations from McConney on 2021 financial statement drafts. Among the 2021 notes, the former controller wrote that Eric Trump needed to review the footnotes for the section on club facilities. On another page McConney wrote that Eric and his brother Donald Trump Jr, both defendants in the case, should review the statements.

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The National Science Foundation declined to answer AP questions about why Bieneman was sent out into the field in a critical safety role while under investigation. The case raises further questions about decision-making in the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is already under scrutiny. Conway and the graduate students did not respond to AP requests for comment. In the complaint, Conway described Bieneman as initially being “domineering and critical” of the two female graduate students at the camp. He said the graduate students, fearing possible retaliation if they disclosed the story, felt they had to tiptoe around Bieneman.

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☆ Trump allies flip as legal battles boil over
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Erica Star Domena | Tamara Lindstrom | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Michael Cohen, Patrick Birney, Mark Meadows, Shawn Still, and Cathleen Latham are a handful of the growing list of former aides, employees, and MAGA enthusiasts who have turned on Donald Trump.

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☆ Trump and NY AG Letitia James are fighting hard over one short but incriminating quote from his NY fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The testimony accuses Trump of personally ordering that his net worth "go up" each year. But in court papers filed Tuesday afternoon, New York Attorney General Letitia James pushed hard to keep it in the trial. Neither Weisselberg nor Trump – both defendants in James' massive fraud lawsuit – have yet been asked to verify what they allegedly said in this game-of-telephone relay. But in sworn depositions before the attorney general's office, both Weisselberg and Trump have minimized their own involvement in the drafting of the net worth statements. James is seeking repayment of some $250 million she says Trump pocketed in interest-rate savings and other benefits.

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☆ Trump told Trump Org executives to make him look richer each year in annual net worth statements, testimony shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump's Manhattan civil fraud trial began week 3 on Monday with testimony by a Trump Org finance VP. He said CFO Allen Weisselberg told him, "Mr. Trump" wants his net worth numbers to go up each year. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Did Allen Weisselberg ever tell you that Mr. Trump wanted his net worth on the Statements of Financial Condition to go up?" Testimony by Patrick Birney, a assistant finance vice president at Trump Organization, helps link Donald Trump to what the New York attorney general calls a fraud conspiracy. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Allen Weisselberg told me Donald likes to see it go up in that period you just said," meaning 2017 - early 2020, Birney had told the AG's office in his deposition.

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In a pretrial court filing, James’ office estimated that Trump exaggerated his wealth by as much as $3.6 billion. They've also called accountants Donald Bender and Camron Harris, whose firms Trump hired to prepare his financial statements. A retired Deutsche Bank official testified the financial statements were key to Trump securing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. Weisselberg acknowledged that information in Trump’s financial statements wasn’t always accurate, such as valuing his penthouse based on the wrong size. In a decision last month, Engoron resolved the lawsuit's top claim, ruling that Trump committed years of fraud by inflating the value of assets in his financial statements.

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Eric Haren of the attorney general’s office showed the court several versions of internal spreadsheets from 2017 financial documents prepared by Trump Org. Ultimately the presidential premiums were never included on Trump’s financial statements. Birney, who was a senior financial analyst in 2016 when he joined Trump Org., still works there, now as vice president of financial operations. He reiterated his previous testimony that Weisselberg or former controller Jeffrey McConney would determine what methods were used to value assets that were included on Trump’s financial statements. Birney also testified that Weisselberg directed him to use low capitalization rates and top of the market comparable recent sales to value some of Trump’s assets.

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☆ Aside from the fraud, Donald Trump was a very well-behaved borrower, Deutsche Bank testimony shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

For 2 days, Deutsche Banks' in-house Trump credit reports flashed on screens at his NY fraud trial. For a second day on Thursday, a former Deutsche Bank executive sat on the witness stand as years of his firm's confidential Trump "credit reports" flashed across two big screens. Trump never missed a loan payment, the credit reports and the banker's testimony showed. In almost a decade as a borrower, Trump was never even late making a payment – not before, during, or after his presidency. AdvertisementAdvertisement"And all the obligations of the borrower were met," Trump attorney Jesus M. Suarez asked the banker in his next question.

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☆ Theater to See Near N.Y.C. in September: ‘Ulysses,’ ‘The Pianist’ and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Here is a chance to see it live, in a McCarter Theater Center-Berkeley Repertory Theater co-production. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007, when Vogel was on the jury. James Warwick directs the world-premiere production. Directed by John Collins, the company’s artistic director, this world-premiere production instead samples chunks from each of the novel’s 18 episodes, letting them erupt in all their verbosity, vulgarity, vivacity and — it is Joyce, after all — opacity. Cross that with the trans-Atlantic success of “Six,” and you arrive at this production: a Lizzie Borden rock musical with an all-female cast.

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☆ Billion-dollar startup plans to bring the dodo back from the dead, and claims it can also revive the woolly mammoth
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company, says it will aim to revive the dodo using gene editing. This is the latest attempt to revive extinct animals in the face of the biodiversity crisis. The bird is the latest in the collection of long-gone animals scientists at the company want to revive. The startup has previously said it plan to recreate the Tasmanian wolf and the woolly mammoth. A stuffed dodo bird at the Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013, in London, England.

☆ California teacher accused of hiding missing teen for almost 2 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A California teacher is accused of hiding a missing teenager who vanished more than two years ago and reappeared at his family's home in March, authorities said last week. Olivares faces charges of detaining a minor with the intent to conceal from a parent and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the department said. “You can’t just hide someone’s kid and think that’s OK,” Smith told the station. The police department identified Olivares as an employee at the Alice Birney Public Waldorf school, in the Sacramento City Unified School District. In a statement to KCRA, the district said that Olivares has been placed on administrative leave while it investigates the allegations.

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