Erik Larson

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.

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.

The judge sided with Letitia James on her allegation that Trump repeatedly engaged in fraud by claiming exaggerated values for some of his best properties on his annual statements of financial condition.

Letitia James alleges the former president and the Trump Organization falsified business records and issued false financial statements.

The U.S. Attorney General has appointed a special counsel to oversee the ongoing criminal investigation into President Joe Biden's son over his taxes.

The former president's daughter won dismissal from the suit when a state appeals court ruled that the claims against her were too old.

A New York State Supreme Court justice also ordered the former president to pay the news outlet's attorneys fees and costs.

An alleged effort by the auction house to help art collectors avoid paying sales tax on purchases was "far more extensive ... than previously known."

Whitley Penn, hired by Trump after he parted ways with longtime accountant Mazars, agreed to hand over all documents and communications.