Key moments in New York attorney general's fraud case against Donald
Trump
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[October 03, 2023]
(Reuters) -Donald Trump, his adult sons, the Trump
Organization and others will go on trial on Monday in a New York state
court in Manhattan, in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney
General Letitia James.
Trump has denied wrongdoing, and called the case a witch hunt.
The following is a timeline of key developments in the case:
2019: James begins her probe.
August 2020: James discloses the probe in a court filing.
October 2020: One of Donald Trump's sons, Eric Trump, testifies under
oath in a deposition, and invokes his constitutional right against
self-incrimination more than 500 times.
February 2022: The judge overseeing the case, Justice Arthur Engoron of
the Manhattan Supreme Court, enforces subpoenas requiring Donald Trump
and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, to testify
under oath in depositions. Each testifies after a state appeals court
upholds the subpoenas.
April 2022: Engoron holds Trump in contempt for being too slow to
respond to a subpoena for documents. He lifts the order in June 2022
after Trump pays a $110,000 fine.
August 2022: Trump testifies under oath in a deposition, and invokes his
right against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
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Sept. 21, 2022: James sues Trump, his three adult children, the Trump
Organization, former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen
Weisselberg and others.
She says Trump oversaw a "staggering fraud" for more than a decade by
inflating his net worth and the value of 23 assets including his Mar-a-Lago
estate in Florida, his Manhattan penthouse, office buildings, hotels and
golf courses.
Trump calls the lawsuit by James, who is Black, "Another Witch Hunt by a
racist Attorney General."
Nov. 3, 2022: Engoron orders the hiring of an independent watchdog to
oversee the Trump Organization.
Jan. 6, 2023: Engoron refuses to dismiss James' case, rejecting defense
claims that she waited too long to sue and did not establish fraud. He
calls some of Trump's arguments "borderline frivolous."
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March 3, 2023: Trump seeks to delay James' case by six months,
citing "fundamental fairness and due process" given the "staggering"
volume of materials. The request came after Engoron said the trial
would begin on Oct. 2 "come hell or high water."
April 13, 2023: Trump is again questioned under oath in a
deposition.
June 27, 2023: A state appeals court in Manhattan, the Appellate
Division, dismisses James' case against Ivanka Trump because the
attorney general missed a deadline to sue her. It says Engoron can
narrow parts of the remaining case because some claims might be too
old.
Aug. 30, 2023: James says Trump inflated his net worth by as much as
$2.2 billion, and asks Engoron to declare as a matter of law that
Trump committed fraud.
Sept. 8, 2023: James boosts her maximum estimate for how much Trump
inflated his net worth to $3.6 billion.
Sept. 14, 2023: The defendants sue Engoron, seeking to halt the
trial until he decides whether to dismiss most of James' claims. A
state appeals court judge grants a temporary pause, pending that
court's review of the case.
Sept. 26, 2023: Engoron holds the defendants liable for fraud,
saying their asset valuations reflected a "fantasy world," and
finding "conclusive evidence" that Trump inflated his net worth by
as much as $2.2 billion. The judge leaves damages and other claims
for the trial. Engoron also sanctions Trump's lawyers for pressing
legal arguments he had rejected.
Sept. 28, 2023: The Appellate Division lifts its temporary pause on
a trial, clearing the way for it to begin.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Noeleen
Walder and Daniel Wallis)
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