Former US President Donald Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. testified as part of an investigation led by New York Attorney General Letitia James that aims to discover whether they lied to increase the value of the company’s assets. Organization. “I think it’s going very well”Donald Trump Jr. In a statement after leaving the court, he emphasized that the case was “political persecution” against his father in retaliation for his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, CNN reported.
After being questioned the day before, Donald Trump Jr. this Thursday had to answer a series of questions from Deputy Attorney General Colleen Faherty regarding the former president’s assets, especially the size of the Tower’s luxury penthouse.
The former president’s eldest son insisted that he was not involved in preparing the financial results, despite signing up for a number of loans and posing as his father’s foundation. In this sense, he emphasized that he trusted his team of accountants and that he was not aware of these documents.
This Thursday, Eric appeared before Deputy Attorney General Andrew Amer, who questioned him about a series of emails dating back to 2013 in which he addressed the Trump Organization’s annual financial results.
Similarly, he had to field several calls to former corporate executive Jeffrey McConney about the Seven Springs estate in Westchester County, New York, which Trump purchased in 1995.
Trump has many legal fronts to fight, but one of the most important is New York State’s fraud investigation into Trump’s businesses. According to the New York City Attorney’s Office, he inflated his personal net worth to financial institutions by $3.6 billion (about 3.3 billion euros).
The origins of the case date back to March 2019, when the earlier statement was made. US Congress from former Trump Organization lawyerMichael Cohen raised questions about the company’s “potentially fraudulent financials.”