Ivanka Trump, shown here in 2019, is expected to be the last witness called by New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation team. NEW YORK — Ivanka Trump is scheduled to testify Wednesday in the New York fraud trial against the family business, two days after her father denied any wrongdoing and criticized the case, the state attorney general and the judge.
Trump’s oldest daughter was dismissed as a named defendant in the case by an appellate court in June. Ivanka Trump left the Trump Organization in 2017 to become a White House adviser to her father.She is expected to be the last witness called by James’s investigation team. She is the last of her relatives scheduled to testify in the case, although the defense may call her brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump and their father back to the witness stand during its presentation of evidence.
Trump said the statements of financial condition at issue in the case were actually downplaying his true net worth and that banks were served with a disclaimer on Trump’s statements that invited them to conduct their own financial analyses of the company.James’s office built a civil case on the premise that Trump and other executives at the company purposely inflated his annual statements of net worth to deceive banks and insurance companies.