Trump $354 Million Fraud Verdict Includes New York Business Ban for 3 Years
New York Judge Arthur Engoron found former President Donald Trump guilty of “fraud” BEFORE trial and ordered him to pay over $350 million in “damages” to the State of New York last Friday. Trump and the other defendants were found liable for fraud by Engoron before the trial even began and never got a jury trial on liability and issued a summary judgment that the defendants committed fraud in violation of New York law.
The ruling against Trump, without a jury trial, is a miscarriage of justice and is similar to the Sandy Hook cases against Jim Fetzer and Alex Jones whose cases were decided by judges and the juries were only used to determine damages. A defamation case against Rudy Giuliani was also decided by a judge and the jury was again used only to determine damages.
In 2023, Engoron found that Trump and his company overstated the valuations of many properties by hundreds of millions. The judge cited the Palm Beach, Florida, real estate assessor’s valuation of his Mar-a-Lago club at a low of $18 million — an amount on which Trump paid local property taxes. At the same time, Trump valued the property at as much as $714 million on his annual statements of financial conditions.
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