For years, company leadership allegedly misrepresented and concealed key details about FTX's operations from investors, other employees and the customers who prosecutors claim had billions of dollars of their money stolen.

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.

Fraudsters are ever-inventive, and accountants and tax pros need to make sure their clients keep vigilant.

Pav Gill is setting up Confide, catering to companies that want to boost their corporate governance.