Remember…Donald J. Trump IS a Convicted Felon….And HAS a BIG Fraud Judgement Against Him

All this going after people for ‘Fraud’?

By a guy CONVICTED of 34 Felony counts of falsifying business records.?….

And who HAS Lost a multi-million dollar Civil Fraud Case in New York State?……

 

Criminal Conviction…

The criminal trial in The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump was held from April 15 to May 30, 2024. Donald Trump, the 45th, and later 47th president of the United States was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels as hush money to buy her silence over a sexual encounter between them; with costs related to the transaction included, the payments totaled $420,000. The Manhattan District Attorney (DA), Alvin Bragg, accused Trump of falsifying these business records with the intent to commit other crimes.

The prosecution argued that Trump’s 2016 campaign sought to benefit from the payment of hush money to Daniels through Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, who was reimbursed via a false retainer agreement. The prosecution rested on May 20, 2024, after calling 20 witnesses. The defense argued that Trump was unaware of any allegedly unlawful scheme, that Cohen was unreliable as a witness, and that the retainer agreement between them was valid. The defense rested on May 21 after calling two witnesses. Throughout proceedings, the defense also made unsuccessful requests for the case to be delayed or dismissed, for the judge to recuse himself, and for removal to federal court.

Trump was convicted on all counts on May 30, 2024, becoming the first U.S. president to be convicted of a felony….

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New York State Civil Trump Fraud Judgement…

New York v. Trump is a civil investigation and lawsuit by the office of the New York Attorney General alleging that individuals and business entities within the Trump Organization engaged in financial fraud by presenting vastly disparate property values to potential lenders and tax officials, in violation of New York Executive Law § 63(12). The defendants were Donald Trump, five other individuals including three of his children, and ten business entities including some that owned property in New York, Florida, and Chicago. After a trial that took place from October 2023 to January 2024, presiding judge Arthur Engoron ordered the defendants to disgorge a total of US$364 million of ill-gotten gains, among other penalties, but an appeals court in August 2025 voided this penalty.

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On September 26, 2023, Engoron issued a summary judgment holding that the AG had sufficiently documented that the defendants (excluding Ivanka)^[217] had for years committed fraud against banks, insurers and others by exaggerating Trump’s net worth and significantly overvaluing assets in documents used to make deals and secure financing. Engoron dismissed Trump’s assertion that he and the organization were absolved because disclaimers said their statements could not be relied on.^[218][j] The judge ordered the termination of the defendants’s New York business licenses; a number of LLCs were expected to be dissolved, with the defendants given 30 days to recommend potential independent receivers to oversee this.^{[219][220][221][222]} Examples of alleged fraud cited by Engoron include two of Trump’s places of residence: his apartment in Trump Tower (both its size and value being roughly tripled)^[8][138][48] and Mar-a-Lago (being inflated by perhaps 22 times and possibly subject to New York litigation as an organization asset.)^{[223][224][r]}

Additionally, on September 26, Engoron sanctioned five defense lawyers $7,500 each for “intentional and blatant disregard of controlling authority and law of the case” by repeating arguments that had already been rejected several times by the New York Supreme Court and the appellate division.^[228][222] According to Engoron, the “defendants’ obstreperous conduct” was worsened by “their continued reliance on bogus arguments”, with defendants presenting a “fantasy world” where “rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments”, etc.^[229] Engoron stated that Trump’s defenses were “wholly without basis in fact or law”, especially that past property values were not inflated because the values supposedly rose years after the evaluation or because a “buyer from Saudi Arabia” would pay any price.^[230]

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Initially planned for late January,^[338] the ruling came a few weeks later.^[339] On February 16, 2024, Engoron found that: “In order to borrow more and at lower rates, defendants submitted blatantly false financial data to the accountants, resulting in fraudulent financial statements.”^[340]Engoron found that during the trial, “defendants’ fact and expert witnesses simply denied reality, and defendants failed to accept responsibility or to impose internal controls to prevent future recurrences.” Engoron ruled that the defendants had been “incapable of admitting the error of their ways”, and that their “complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological”.^[341][342]

In his ruling, Engoron dismissed various defenses. Engoron found that moneylenders issued loans while relying on false financial statements, contrary to the defense’s claim that they did not.^[343] When the defendants blamed third-party accounting companies, Engoron found “overwhelming evidence” produced during the trial that the accounting companies “relied on the Trump Organization, not vice versa, to be truthful and accurate, and they had a right to do so”.^[343] When the defendants claimed that differences in monetary evaluations were inherent and not fraudulent in appraising, Engoron wrote that “the science part [of appraising] cannot be fraudulent. When two appraisals rely on starkly different assumptions, that is not evidence of a difference of opinion, that is evidence of deceit.”^[344]…

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