Erik Larson

Trump suggested he could exert pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, saying there had "never been anything like it."

The lawsuit by a sitting president against the government he leads puts Trump in a highly unusual position in the case.

Small businesses challenging the global tariffs urged the justices to affirm lower court rulings that the import levies amount to a massive tax on companies.

The Democrat-led states alleged the tariffs amount to a massive tax on American consumers and infringe on the authority of Congress.

A dozen states are challenging the presidents "immense and ever-changing" global tariffs in court, alleging they amount to a massive tax on American consumers..

The auction house was accused of advising wealthy clients they could avoid sales taxes by falsely claiming they were buying art for resale purposes.

The development comes as Trump is appealing a trial loss that resulted in a $454 million judgment against him and his company for inflating the value of assets by billions of dollars.

The judge must decide if Trump intentionally inflated his annual financial statements by billions of dollars a year.

A prominent NYU accounting professor who is being paid to testify in Donald Trump's defense in a civil fraud trial heaped praise on the former president's financial records.

Central to the case are the statements of financial condition Trump had his accountants at Mazars USA LLP send to lenders detailing his assets and their values.

Her answers, and the documents displayed to her on the stand, show she was deeply aware of the importance of his net worth in securing the best terms on loans.

Trump acknowledged he had a hand in preparing the financial statements that valued his properties.

He testified that financial documents sent to Deutsche Bank were "accurate," even though a judge has already determined they were fraudulent.

"I relied upon Mazars and our accounting team" for the preparation of a financial statement, Donald Trump Jr. told the judge. "That's why we have accountants."

Attorney General Letitia James says Uber from 2014 to 2017 improperly deducted sales tax and other fees from driver paychecks that should have been paid by passengers.

"The accountants worked on it," the eldest son of former president Donald Trump testified in a Manhattan courtroom. "That's what we paid them for."

Letitia James alleges all three Trump children were central figures in a scheme to inflate the former president's assets by as much as $3.6 billion a year to get better terms on loans and insurance policies.

DCG's Genesis unit is accused in the suit of failing to adequately audit the Three Arrows Capital hedge fund and lying to Gemini when it claimed to regularly review its borrowers' financial statements,

Jeffrey McConney testified that he added tens of millions of dollars a year to the former president's annual financial statements for the value of mansions that did not exist.

Trump spoke out in apparent irritation after his lawyer complained he couldn't hear the testimony of the state's first witness, former Mazars USA LLP accountant Donald Bender, who often lowered his voice and mumbled answers.