The former US president and two of his children are accused of overvaluing their real estate assets between $812 million and $2.2 billion from 2014 to 2021.
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Donald Trump facing justice. The civil trial of the former American president and two of his children, accused of having colossally inflated their real estate assets for years, opens Monday October 2 in New York. The 77-year-old billionaire announced Sunday evening that he planned to be present at the opening arguments before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, where he is called as a witness. “I’m going to court tomorrow morning to fight for my name and reputation“, he reacted in a message posted on the Truth Social platform.
Last week, theJudge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the trial, found that “repeated frauds” were established and that the New York State Attorney General’s Office had already demonstrated that Donald Trump and his group’s staff had “overvalued” their assets between $812 million and $2.2 billion from 2014 to 2021. New York State Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in fines and bans from running companies for Donald Trump and several of his relatives.
Criminally charged in four cases
Donald Trump cannot be sentenced to prison in this case, but the trial will offer a foretaste of the legal deadlines likely to disrupt his campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election. Criminally charged in four different cases , Donald Trump must appear in particular from March 4, 2024 in a federal court in Washington. He is accused of trying to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden.
He will then have an appointment with the New York State justice system for accounting fraud, then in Florida for his negligent management of confidential documents after his departure from the presidency.