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Judge Arthur Engoron was expected to issue his decision in Trump’s New York civil fraud case around January 31, while the court-appointed monitor said the Trump Organization still appeared to be making misstatements and errors in financial disclosures. That is not a great look for a company already under a fraud microscope.
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Judge Arthur Engoron was expected to issue his decision in Trump’s New York civil fraud case around January 31, while the court-appointed monitor said the Trump Organization still appeared to be making misstatements and errors in financial disclosures. That is not a great look for a company already under a fraud microscope.
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Judge Arthur Engoron was expected to issue his decision in Trump’s New York civil fraud case around January 31, while the court-appointed monitor said the Trump Organization still appeared to be making misstatements and errors in financial disclosures. That is not a great look for a company already under a fraud microscope.
The New York civil-fraud ruling Trump was waiting on was still pending after the judge said he hoped to decide by Jan. 31, stretching the wait but not changing the stakes. The evidence had already been heard in court, and the case was already doing its work on Trump’s image as a business genius and dealmaker. Whatever the final number turns out to be, the delay only lengthens the public accounting.
By Jan. 29, 2024, Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial had already finished closing arguments, but the judge still had not ruled. The state’s case accused him and his company of years of false financial statements used to help secure loans and insurance advantages.
As of January 24, 2024, Judge Arthur Engoron had not yet issued a decision in the New York civil fraud case against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. Closing arguments were held on January 11, 2024.
Closing arguments in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial were held on Jan. 11, 2024, and by Jan. 18 the judge still had not ruled in the case.
Closing arguments were in the books in Trump’s New York civil fraud trial, leaving Judge Arthur Engoron to decide whether years of inflated valuations and financial bragging amounted to a legal fraud scheme with real penalties. For Trump, the timing was awful: the courtroom was moving from performance to judgment, and his whole business mythology was sitting under a microscope. Whatever comes next, the hearing itsel…
Donald Trump used part of the January 11, 2024 closing-arguments session in New York’s civil fraud case to attack the judge and the attorney general before Justice Arthur Engoron cut him off. It was not a formal closing argument, but it did give the court one more example of how Trump handles restraint: badly.
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