New accusation by American justice against Donald Trump. The former president is accused by New York justice of having overvalued his assets by “billions of dollars” each year between 2011 and 2021.
The Republican billionaire and his children are thus accused of having “deliberately” manipulated, up and down, the valuations of the group’s assets (golf clubs, luxury hotels and other properties) to obtain higher loans. advantageous with the banks or to reduce their taxes.
New York State Attorney General (equivalent to Regional Attorney General) Letitia James, an elected Democratic Party magistrate, filed hundreds of pages of accusatory documents with the local Supreme Court to support the complaint. in civil proceedings that she filed in September 2022 to claim $250 million in damages from Donald Trump, his children and their Trump Organization group for tax and financial fraud. “Since at least 2011, the defendants and others working for them at the Trump Organization have falsely inflated the value of their recorded assets on Donald J. Trump’s annual financial statement by billions of dollars,” prosecutors write. yorkers.
Yet another trial?
Last January, the Trump Organization had already been sentenced in New York, criminally, to a maximum fine of 1.6 million dollars for financial and tax fraud. The civil trial this fall promises, if it holds, to be more spectacular, before all the trials in 2024 awaiting Donald Trump, who hopes to return to the White House on January 20, 2025. Indeed, four other trials await the candidate for the Republican nomination in the coming months, before the presidential election in November 2024.
According to the court calendar, there will first be the federal trial in Washington for election interference, where Trump could be convicted of “conspiracy against the United States”. Then, still in March, the trial of the “Stromy Daniels” case is to be held. Two months later, in May, the trial over classified records taken away by Trump after he left the White House. While the trial in Georgia for these actions during the 2020 campaign is not yet fixed.
Donald Trump’s legal troubles
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In the case of Letitia James’ complaint, Donald Trump has often denounced a “ridiculous” case led by a “racist” African-American magistrate.