By trashing Trump’s knowledgeable witness, Decide Engoron is sending the message that the Trump Group is about to be shut down in New York.
Decide Engoron slammed Trump’s accounting specialists and rejected key factors of the protection in an order Monday denying a movement for a directed verdict filed by Trump’s attorneys after trial testimony ended final week.
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“Bartov is a tenured professor, but all that his testimony proves is that for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say,” Engoron wrote. “By doggedly attempting to justify every misstatement, Professor Bartov lost all credibility.”
Engoron added: “Defendants also trot out two of their standard canards, that valuations are subjective and that the law only penalizes ‘material’ deviations. These both fall into the category of ‘Let no one be fooled.’” A valuation may be based mostly on completely different standards and analyzed other ways, the choose mentioned, “But a lie is still a lie.”
Trump, his grownup youngsters, and his enterprise have already been discovered responsible of fraud. What has but to be decided is the severity of the penalty that Trump will face. Given the choose’s feedback, it will not be shocking if the Trump Group was shut down and monetary penalties have been lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
The previous president and his enterprise engaged in widespread fraud. In actual fact, it seems to be just like the Trump household enterprise was fraud.
Engoron was right.
It doesn’t matter what number of specialists Trump pays for, a lie continues to be a lie.
Donald Trump’s many years of lies might price him the whole lot.
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