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After that, Justice #Engoron called it a day.
Trial starts at 10 am ET tomorrow w/ #EricTrump still on the stand.
#Trump #legal #law #civil #conspiracy #fraud #TrumpOrganization #NYAG #LetitiaJames #TrumpTrial #GAAP #DonaldTrumpJr #IvankaTrump #AllenWeisselberg #JeffMcConney #DonaldBender #TaxFraud
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#Trump’s attys declined to cross-examine #CameronHarris, but they reserved the right to call him back to the stand later.
Instead, they spent the last hour of court continuing their cross-examination of fmr #Mazars USA #accountant #DonaldBender.
After defense highlighted Bender's inconsistent statements about Mazars' use of specialists to evaluate assets, #Bender seemed to struggle to articulate how Mazars provided #accounting expertise.
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#CameronHarris, argued the #Trumps are #responsible for their #FinancialStatements
#DonaldTrumpJr & #EricTrump, who signed the representation letr. & the engagement letr. for the 2021 compilation of #Trump’s statements of #financial condition, were a focus of the PM court session.
When #DonaldBender was engaged, #AllenWeisselberg, fmr #TrumpOrg CFO, played that role, but by 2021, the responsibility for retaining & managing the #accounting relationship seems to have shifted to the #TrumpSons.
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Back to the #TrumpTrial #day2
During #CrossExamination this afternoon, #Trump #lawyer Jesus #Suarez tried to pin the blame for #inflated #FinancialStatements on Trump's fmr #accountant, #DonaldBender.
Suarez noted in his questioning that #Bender was the only #CPA compiling the documents, & that others involved like #AllenWeisselberg didn't have that level of expertise. (Um, he was the CFO - the Chief Financial Officer 🤦🏼♀️)
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Fmr #Trump #accountant #DonaldBender testified that at one point he discovered that Trump & his company were #withholding certain docs that should have been given to him as he compiled Trump's #FinancialStatements.
Trump &… #AllenWeisselberg, sent #Bender letters asserting they'd "made available to you all available records & financial data" & had "not knowingly withheld from you any #financial #records or related #data that in our judgment would be relevant to your compilation."
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Continuing his #testimony, fmr #Trump #accountant #DonaldBender #testified that the info he used to compile Trump's #FinancialStatements came from the #TrumpOrganization, NOT him.
The #judge already found the #financial statements were grossly #inflated & #fraudulent.
The AG's office is trying to show a #pattern of behavior through documents bolstering #Bender's claim, indicating he & the accounting company he worked for relied on docs that Trump & his company provided them.
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Longtime #TrumpOrganization #accountant #DonaldBender was the first #witness in the #NewYork AG’s $250 million #fraud #trial. He was responsible for preparing the allegedly #fraudulent statements of #financial condition that were used to present what the #lawsuit says are #inflated accounts of #Trump’s #NetWorth to obtain favorable #loan & #insurance policy rates.
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Oh FFS; Before the first #witness #DonaldBender, could even begin testifying, one of Donald #Trump’s attorneys issued a preemptive #objection. Chris #Kise told Justice Arthur #Engoron that he objected to various parts of the #accountant’s #testimony & wanted to issue a “blanket objection” based on an #appellate ruling in June.
“As you know we won an appellate victory in June of this year,” #Kise said. “We make a blanket #objection to #testimony in that regard.”
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The first #witness they plan to call is Trump's fmr #accountant #DonaldBender of #Mazars USA, which last year severed its business relationship w/ #Trump after learning of the #NYAG's findings. During the #TrumpOrganization's 2022 #criminal #trial on charges of helping certain executives evade #taxes, Bender testified that Trump reported massive losses on his tax returns, including losing a combined $1 billion between 2009 & 2010.