Her father gave caustic testimony. Her brothers each spent more than a day on the witness stand. Now it\u2019s Ivanka Trump\u2019s turn to face questioning in the civil fraud trial that is publicly probing into the family business. Ex-President Donald Trump\u2019s eldest daughter, who has been in his inner circle in both business and politics, is due on the stand Wednesday, after trying unsuccessfully to block her testimony. Unlike her father and her brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., she is no longer a defendant in New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 lawsuit. James alleges that Donald Trump\u2019s asset values were fraudulently pumped up for years on financial statements that helped him get loans and insurance.<\/p>\n
The non-jury trial will decide allegations of conspiracy, insurance fraud and falsifying business records \u2013 but Judge Arthur Engoron already has resolved the lawsuit\u2019s top claim by ruling that Trump engaged in fraud. That decision came with provisions that could strip the ex-president of oversight of such marquee properties as Trump Tower, though an appeals court is allowing him continued control of his holdings, at least for now. James, a Democrat, is seeking over $300 million in penalties and a ban on Trump doing business in New York.<\/p>\n
The ex-president and Republican 2024 front-runner denies any wrongdoing, as do the other defendants. He insisted in court Monday that his financial statements greatly underestimated his net worth, that any discrepancies were minor, that a disclaimer absolved him of liability and that \u201cthis case is a disgrace.\u201d Ivanka Trump was an executive vice president at the family\u2019s Trump Organisation before becoming an unpaid senior adviser in her father\u2019s White House. Like her brothers, who are still Trump Organisation EVPs, she has professed minimal knowledge of their father\u2019s annual financial statements.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t, specifically, know what was prepared on his behalf for him as a person, separate and distinct from the organisation and the properties that I was working on,\u201d she said during sworn questioning for the investigation that eventually led to the lawsuit. She said she didn\u2019t know who prepared the statements or how the documents were compiled. As a Trump Organisation executive, Ivanka Trump dealt with securing a loan and a lease for a Washington hotel and financing for the Doral golf resort near Miami and a hotel and condo skyscraper in Chicago, according to court filings.<\/p>\n
As her father\u2019s inauguration neared, she announced in January 2017 that she was stepping away from her Trump Organization job. After her time in the administration, she moved to Florida. An appeals court dismissed her as a defendant in the lawsuit in June, saying the claims against her were too old. Her attorneys contended that she shouldn\u2019t have to testify. They said the state was just trying to harass the family by dragging her into court. The attorney general\u2019s office argued that her testimony would be relevant, saying she was involved in some events discussed in the case and remains financially and professionally entwined with the Trump Organization and its leaders. The company has bought insurance for her and her businesses, managed her household staff and credit card bills, rented out her apartment and paid her legal fees, according to the state\u2019s court papers.<\/p>\n
Engoron and, later, an appeals court ruled that she had to testify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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