Erik Larson

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.

Donald Bender said that key information about asset valuations was missing from Trump Organization financials, and that he wouldn't have signed off on them had he known.

Tuesday will start off with more testimony from his former accountant Donald Bender. The next witness is expected to be Camron Harris, an audit partner with Trump's new accounting firm Whitley Penn LLP.

The former president wanted to get higher on the Forbes billionaires list and save a fortune on loan terms by overvaluing his properties, according to evidence previewed for a packed courtroom.

The New York judge who ruled the former president committed fraud by inflating the value of many of his assets also authorized AG Letitia James to cancel certificates for companies that hold those assets.