{"id":35966,"date":"2023-11-01T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35966"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:35:58","slug":"why-donald-trumps-children-will-testify-in-his-civil-fraud-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35966","title":{"rendered":"Why Donald Trump&#8217;s children will testify in his civil fraud trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s eldest son will be the first to take the stand in a civil fraud trial in New York that could severely restrict the family&#8217;s business activities in the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, and their sister Ivanka Trump are all expected to testify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Trump&#8217;s sons, who are senior Trump Organization executives and co-defendants in the case, are accused of falsification of business records, insurance fraud and conspiracy, among other claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both deny any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The $250m (\u00a3206m) fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses the former president of inflating the value of his properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-66931855\">previously ruled that Mr Trump regularly lied<\/a> on his financial statements and exaggerated his net worth by billions of dollars. The overvaluation allowed Mr Trump to obtain favourable loan rates and lower insurance premiums, the judge&#8217;s ruling said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current case will decide penalties and whether the defendants broke any state laws in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s eldest son will be the first to take the stand in a civil fraud trial in New York that could severely restrict the family&#8217;s business activities in the state. Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, and their sister Ivanka Trump are all expected to testify. Mr Trump&#8217;s sons, who are senior Trump Organization executives and co-defendants in the case, are accused of falsification of business records, insurance fraud and conspiracy, among other claims. Both deny any wrongdoing. The $250m (\u00a3206m) fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses the former president of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35968,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35966\/revisions\/35968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}