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  • Donald Trump Jr. waits to testify in New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s eldest sons are set to testify in the New York civil fraud case that threatens their company’s future, but a demand for daughter Ivanka’s testimony is being challenged. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Finance

    Donald Trump Jr. testifies in fraud trial he never worked on his father’s financial statements despite being a Trump Organization EVP

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others
  • Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., wait for President Donald Trump to speak from the South Lawn of the White HousePolitics

    Donald Trump’s sons are about to testify. Trump Jr. can’t recall using GAAP except ‘probably in Accounting 101 at Wharton’

    By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press
  • Former President Donald Trump leaves the courtroom at lunch break in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Politics

    Trump returns to his New York civil fraud trial, but star witness Michael Cohen wasn’t there as expected

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others
  • Former President Donald Trump addresses an audience during a campaign event, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Politics

    Trump’s disputed financial statements were key to the approval of $232m in loans, but the lender gave sizeable ‘haircuts’ to his values, bank official testifies

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump admits in fraud trial that his New York penthouse is 11,000 square feet, not 30,000

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others
  • FILE – Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg appears during his sentencing hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, Jan. 10, 2023, in New York. After a recent jail stint for tax fraud, Weisselberg is front and center again, set to testify Oct. 10, in the civil trial in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ fraud lawsuit against Trump and his company, the Trump Organization. (Curtis Means/DailyMail via AP, Pool)Politics

    Trump’s longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg, who went to jail for dodging taxes on $1.7m in job perks, is set to testify in ex-president’s fraud trial

    By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he leaves the courtroom during a lunch break in his civil business fraud trial, Oct. 4, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York appeals court Friday to halt his Manhattan civil fraud trial while they fight a court ruling that calls for dissolving companies that control some of the former president’s most prized assets, including Trump Tower. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Finance

    Donald Trump fails to halt New York fraud trial as Letitia James says he lives in a ‘fantasy world’ where ‘facts don’t matter’

    By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Trump Organization senior vice president and controller Jeffrey McConney returns to the courthouse after a break in the company’s trial on Nov. 1, 2022, in New York. Former President Donald Trump has said he never thought his yearly financial statements “would be taken very seriously.” But evidence Thursday at his New York civil fraud trial showed the statements were integral to some of his business empire’s loan deals. A state lawyer showed letters that former Trump company controller Jeffrey McConney sent to a bank, saying he was providing copies of Trump’s 2015 and 2016 financial statements as required under the conditions of a loan for his Seven Springs estate north of New York City. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)Finance

    Trump’s corporate controller tells court they boosted value of his Trump Tower penthouse by $20m because he was famous

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others
  • FILE – Former President Donald Trump listens during his civil fraud trial at the State Supreme Court building in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. An accountant who prepared Donald Trump’s financial statements has finished his testimony after four days on the witness stand in the New York civil trial examining whether the former president exaggerated his wealth. Trump himself didn’t attend the proceedings Thursday. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)Finance

    Trump’s financial statements were key to loan deal, evidence in fraud trial shows—after he said he never thought they ‘would be taken very seriously’

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others
  • Former President Donald Trump listens during his civil fraud trial at the State Supreme Court building in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)Finance

    Trump calls business fraud trial a ‘disgrace’ as accountant testifies they didn’t verify accuracy of ‘any of the information’ from ex-president’s company

    By Michael R. Sisak, Bobby Caina Calvan, and others
  • Former President Donald Trump appears in court for a civil fraud case at a Manhattan courthouse, in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (Dave Sanders/Pool Photo via AP)Politics

    Trump hit with limited gag order after publishing disparaging Truth Social post about New York court clerk in business fraud case

    By Michael R. Sisak, Bobby Caina Calvan, and others
  • Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after leaving a New York State Supreme court after the start of the civil fraud trial against himPolitics

    Donald Trump slams ‘disgraceful trial’ as he sneers through rare court appearance in New York lawsuit

    By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, and others
  • FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks in Clinton Township, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. Starting Monday, Oct. 2, Judge Arthur Engoron will preside over a non-jury trial in Manhattan to resolve remaining claims in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his company and top executives. (AP Photo/Mike Mulholland, File)Finance

    Trump will attend New York trial scrutinizing his business after judge issues ‘corporate death penalty’

    By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press
  • Judge Arthur Engoron poses for a picture in his courtroom in New York, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Starting Monday, Oct. 2, Engoron will preside over a non-jury trial in Manhattan to resolve remaining claims in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his company and top executives. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Finance

    The judge poised to disrupt Trump’s collection of skyscrapers and golf courses—and decide on up to $250M in damages—was once a cabbie

    By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press
  • SUMMERVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA – SEPTEMBER 25: Former President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd during a campaign rally on September 25, 2023 in Summerville, South Carolina. The former president has a strong lead in the polls over his Republican challengers and does not plan to participate in Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)Politics

    Donald Trump was a fraud for years as he built a real-estate empire off loans from Wall Street, judge rules: ‘That is a fantasy world, not the real world’

    By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated Press