On Tuesday, Engoron issued a ruling concluding that Trump routinely inflated the value of his assets and granting James much of what she has sought in the case, but the bench trial is still expected to proceed on Monday on issues not resolved by the decision this week. Trump is a defendant in the case, but because it is a civil case, rather than a criminal one, he is not obligated to personally attend — and until now he had not been expected to do so, except perhaps to testify....

“Real estate brokers value Mar-A-Lago as high as $725 million,” Watters said. “Twenty acres, 62,000-square-foot estate touching the Atlantic to the intercoastal.” Salem Media Group’s Charlie Kirk weighed in on the Palm Beach housing market more broadly in an interview with Donald Trump Jr., who has been called as a witness in the case. “It’s kind of a running joke that if you get a shed on the island, right, on one of the streets, you know, Jungle, El Brio, or whatever, like a little shack, it’s a $30 million...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer, on September 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan. Donald Trump on Friday blasted his upcoming New York civil fraud trial and his four pending criminal cases as he asked supporters to donate to his 2024 presidential campaign ahead of a key finance deadline. "After four sham arrests, indictments, and even a mugshot failed to break me, a Democrat judge is now trying to destroy my Family Business," Trump said in an email for...

Donald Trump’s inflated valuation of his properties earned him a finding him liable for fraud this week – and stands to cost him many millions of dollars. The fate of the Organization is now in the hands of Judge Arthur Engoron, who is expected to decide penalties at a trial starting Monday. And, among the losses Trump could incur in the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James is his extensive New York real estate empire. Website laid out the properties he could lose. The famous Fifth Avenue...

Ruling Confirms Trump Used Fraud to Hype Property Values In 2019, ProPublica revealed stark inconsistencies between what the Trump Organization had reported to tax authorities and what it told lenders about the finances of one of its towers. A judge this week ruled the company had committed fraud. He’s the president, yet we’re still trying to answer basic questions about how his business works: what deals are happening, whom they’re happening with, and if the president and his family are keeping their promise to separate the Trump Organization from the...

Former President Donald Trump’s civil trial in New York on fraud charges will begin Monday. On Thursday, a ruling rejected without comment Trump’s last effort to delay the start of the trial. The Trump Organization, Trump, and his sons Eric and Donald Jr. are being sued for $250 million in a case launched by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to Axios. “It is hereby ordered that the motions are denied,” the ruling said. Earlier this week, Judge Arthur Engoron, who will preside over the trial, ruled in...

Trump's N.Y. business empire is 'greatly at risk' from judge's fraud ruling New York City — Donald J. Trump's sprawling web of businesses in New York faces grave danger and could unravel swiftly after this week's fraud ruling by a state Supreme Court judge, legal and business experts say. The summary judgment issued Tuesday concluded that the former president and his associates, including sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, systematically overvalued corporate assets over a period of years. In one instance, they falsely inflated the total square footage of...

The ruling puts Trump at the greatest risk of losing control of his business in decades. Although the stakes may not be as a high as when his bad bets on Atlantic City casinos led him to file six corporate bankruptcies in the ’90s and early 2000s, the symbolism of his being effectively barred from doing business in New York City — a place he has been so closely identified with nearly his entire life — may leave a more lasting mark. Trump was raised in Queens, fashioned himself as...