The attorneys have argued that the company was never in default with its lenders and that the lenders profited from their business with Trump.The defense has also maintained that the financial statements came with a disclaimer that Trump Organization accountants had not verified the calculations behind the reports and that banks and lenders did not rely on them.
“You don’t want to get caught up in the minutiae of whether one expert might deem this to be $100,000 less than another,” Bader said. “You want to be able to establish that this goes beyond those nuanced differences.” Attorneys for Trump filed a petition against Engoron and the attorney general Sept. 13, arguing that he has not adhered to a June 27 appellate decision ordering the dismissal of claims stemming from transactions that wrapped up before 2014 or 2016. That decision was based on a 2021Trump attorneys argued in appellate court last week that the trial cannot proceed in fairness without Engoron first establishing the parameters of the case in compliance with the June decision. On Sept.
The outcome of that dispute could significantly reduce the number of claims presented at trial, according to the defense. The June 27 decision released Ivanka Trump from James’s lawsuit, leaving her brothers Donald Jr. and Eric as individually named defendants along with their father, his longtime financial chief Allen Weisselberg and his comptroller Jeffrey McConney. All have denied wrongdoing through their attorneys.