Prosecutors got a key piece of evidence from Eric Trump as he confirmed that Mar-a-Lago was valued as both a residence and a private club, which the judge already ruled was fraud. The Attorney General’s office was trying to focus Eric Trump about his knowledge of Mar-a-Lago and how it was treated in the financial statements. So they showed an email that he was on that discussed the treatment of how they were valuing Mar-a-Lago. And what we’ve seen throughout this trial. Now, at the end of its fifth week...

Updated November 3, 2023 at 10:26 AM ET Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and a son of former President Donald Trump, took the witness chair Friday at a civil trial at the New York County Supreme Court for his second day of questioning. The trial accuses him, his brother Donald Trump Jr., and his father of knowingly committing fraud by submitting statements of financial condition that inflated the value of their properties and other assets. Andrew Amer, a lawyer for the attorney general, opened questioning by...

Eric Trump will continue his testimony on Friday in a civil fraud case that threatens his family’s business and the image of his father, former President Donald J. Trump. On Thursday, during hours on the stand, Eric Trump and his older brother, Donald Trump Jr., blamed outside accountants for any errors in company financial statements. The documents are at the heart of the civil case, held in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, which accuses the brothers, their father and the family’s Trump Organization of defrauding banks and insurers. The former...

Here's what to expect at trial today Eric Trump, who has worked as an executive vice president at the Trump Organization, is set to continue his testimony this morning. He will be under direct examination. Yesterday, attorneys for the former president declined to cross-examine Donald Trump Jr. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office has argued that former President Donald Trump’s children were “aware of, and knowingly participated in” a yearslong scheme to falsely inflate the Trump Organization's assets in order to secure more favorable loans and insurance policies than...

The New York Attorney General’s office pressed Donald Trump’s two adult sons Thursday about their knowledge of and involvement with the former president’s financial statements in some of the most significant and tense days of the fraud trial. The back-to-back appearances Thursday from Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — who both helped run the Trump Organization while their father was in the White House — comes ahead of the former president’s own testimony on Monday. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are co-defendants in the case, along with their...

Eric Trump, one of two sons entrusted to run Donald Trump’s real estate empire, swore Thursday that he was never involved with financial statements that New York state lawyers say fraudulently puffed up the ex-president’s wealth and the worth of the family business. But when shown a decade-old email asking him for information for one of his dad’s financial statements, the irritated son strove to clarify. “We’re a major organization, a massive real estate organization — yes, I’m fairly sure I understand that we have financial statements. Absolutely,” Eric Trump...

Donald Trump’s son testified on Thursday that he was not involved in preparing his father’s financial statements, which are at the center of a civil fraud case against the former president and several of his associates in New York. Eric Trump, a co-defendant in the case and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said on the witness stand, “I had no involvement and never worked on my father’s statement of financial condition.” NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER: TEXAS EYES UP ITS OWN ENERGY FUND The younger Trump was confronted by lawyers...