Donald Trump

"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.

The manner in which Charles Littlejohn pulled off one of the most egregious security breaches in IRS history was revealed in a court filing.

The Council of Economic Advisers said a reduction in revenues from capital gains taxes has played a notable role in the widening deficit.

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.

An IRS consultant allegedly leaked confidential tax information on former President Donald Trump and billionaires to The New York Times and ProPublica.