The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial may have based a pre-trial decision on incorrect property valuations, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told Newsmax on Monday.
Judge Arthur Engoron in late September, ahead of the $250 million civil lawsuit being brought against Trump, his adult sons and the Trump Organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruled that the former president defrauded banks and insurers for years as he built his real estate empire.
Engoron at the time agreed with James that Trump overvalued his assets and exaggerated his net worth.
"And the other thing, just to be clear, is there are no victims in this allegation because, you know, at the end of the day all these banks that these documents were provided to have been paid back.""I think being a prosecutor, it is drilled into our heads that you know, you let the evidence speak for itself," he said.
"But you know, at the end of the day, the facts in the law matter and no matter what she tried is the report from the courtroom this is kind of a sad day when you can target one individual citizen and try to bring draconian remedies on him based just on things that happened in the ordinary course of daily business."Charlie McCarthy | [email protected] Charlie McCarthy, a writer/editor at Newsmax, has nearly 40 years of experience covering news, sports, and politics.
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