{"id":2094570,"date":"2023-11-08T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivanka-is-final-witness-in-donald-trumps-250m-civil-fraud-trial\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:12:12","slug":"ivanka-is-final-witness-in-donald-trumps-250m-civil-fraud-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivanka-is-final-witness-in-donald-trumps-250m-civil-fraud-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivanka to testify in Trump&#8217;s $250M fraud trial."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fivanka-is-final-witness-in-donald-trumps-250m-civil-fraud-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2094570&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ivanka Trump, \u200cdaughter of former US\u200c President \u200bDonald Trump, arrives following \u200dthe afternoon break as she testifies in the Trump Organization \u2064civil fraud trial, at the New York \u200cState Supreme Court \u200bin New York City on November 8, 2023. (Photo \u200dby ADAM GRAY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>5:06 PM \u2013 Wednesday, November 8, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Ivanka Trump, \u200bwho has distanced herself from her father\u2019s business empire\u2063 for years, testified on Wednesday as \u200cthe last\u200d state\u2062 witness in the $250 million civil fraud\u200d lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general against former President Donald Trump \u2064and his firm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka resigned from her position at the family\u200c business\u200c back in 2017 and is not participating in her \u200bfather\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign. However,\u200b she was once the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and a \u2063top advisor to her father during\u200b his time as president.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka \u2063was first named as a defendant in \u200da lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia\u2062 James. <\/p>\n<p>James claimed that Ivanka had a significant part in utilizing her father\u2019s financial records to arrange commercial transactions that\u2064 brought millions of dollars to her family\u2019s company. <\/p>\n<p>She was removed from the \u200bcase \u200bby an appeals court \u200din June due to the fact\u200d that the state\u2019s statute\u200c of\u2063 limitations did not apply to her alleged actions.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar attempt to avoid testifying in court, Ivanka claimed that she lacked knowledge about the alleged crimes at issue. However, James countered in a filing, stating that Ivanka Trump \u201cindisputably has \u200bpersonal knowledge of \u2062facts relevant to the claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThey just want another free-for-all on another one \u2062of President Trump\u2019s children,\u201d said Chris Kise, one of Donald Trump\u2019s attorneys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Taking a\u2062 stance with James, Judge Arthur Engoron forced Ivanka Trump to appear. Her application for an emergency stay \u2063was\u2063 also turned down by an appeals court, citing\u2063 the unreasonable difficulty of testifying \u201cin the middle of \u2063a school week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka, having exhausted all legal options, dropped her appeal and, like\u200b her father and\u2062 brothers, appeared in a New York courtroom\u2063 to answer questions regarding her family\u2019s business empire.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump gave a testimony on Monday, while her brothers, Eric and Donald \u2062Trump Jr., also \u200dappeared in court last week. James\u2019 lawsuit charges the Trump family with a ten-year fraud\u200d scheme to misrepresent their assets in order to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witch-hunt-continues-judge-undervalues-trump-estate-alleging-tax-fraud\/\" title=\"Judge alleges tax fraud, undervalues Trump estate in ongoing witch-hunt.\">obtain favorable insurance<\/a> and loan conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will determine \u2063what further proceedings\u200b and,\u2063 if \u2062any, penalties the defendants\u2063 should face after the preliminary \u200cverdict by the case\u2019s supervisory\u2062 judge found that the \u2062Trumps\u200d are guilty of \u2064years\u2019 worth of deception.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his sons have appealed\u2062 the judge\u2019s pretrial decision and \u200bdenied any misconduct.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThis is \u200ba case that should have never been brought and it\u2019s \u2062a case that should be immediately dismissed,\u201d the former president said\u2062 while leaving court.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After sitting for a\u200c deposition on August 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2022, Ivanka \u2062sat with the attorney general and\u2062 denied \u200dany involvement with\u2063 her father\u2019s financial statements, which are the records at the core\u2064 of James\u2019 lawsuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI \u200dhave my own. I\u2019ve never prepared one. I don\u2019t know. I never made one. I\u2019m not an accountant,\u201d Ivanka Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When questioned about her participation, she gave answers concerning the claims made by her father and those made by the business.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cDo you have any\u200d recollection of your father having personal financial statements?\u201d State\u2062 attorney Louis Solomon\u2064 asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cNot specifically,\u201d Ivanka \u200dresponded. \u2062\u201cWell, see,\u200c I combine them all in my mind, like the statements of the company and\u2026 No, not specific to\u200b him,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week,\u200b in court, Donald Trump \u2063Jr. testified that he \u200dapproved of his father\u2019s financial statements based\u2064 on the counsel of his accountants.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Ivanka is no longer \u200da defendant in James\u2019 case, her name has been coming up during the\u200d trial in relation\u200b to \u200cDeutsche Bank loans\u200d and a lease\u200d she arranged for a Washington, D.C.,\u200b home.<\/p>\n<p>James claims that\u2064 Ivanka acted as the main point of contact for loans that relied on Donald\u200d Trump\u2019s financial status between\u2064 Deutsche Bank and the Trump Organization.<\/p>\n<p>James also claims that in order to resolve concerns\u2064 with the statements, Donald \u200band Ivanka Trump even attended an in-person\u2062 meeting.\u200c They allegedly presented Trump\u2019s statement \u200cof financial \u200cstatus when they bid on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bank lost $143 million in interest on loans connected to the three homes that Ivanka helped secure, the\u200b state\u2019s \u201cexpert analysis\u201d reported.<\/p>\n<p>Stay \u2063informed! 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Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this \u2064post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Thousands of\u200d Trump supporters\u200d gather in Hialeah, Florida<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>House \u2064Republicans challenge ESG in the Ways And Means Committee<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>California Governor signs law requiring machine ballot counting<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Race for Houston&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-los-angeles-sheriffs-officials-die-by-apparent-suicide\/\" title=\"4 Los Angeles Sheriff\u2019s Officials Die By Apparent Suicide\">mayor seat narrows<\/a> down\u2064 to \u200dtwo Democrat candidates<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Amazon \u2062invests in \u2064Olympus LLM model to compete with OpenAI \u200band Alphabet<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Meta requires advertisers\u200d to disclose altered or created ads<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>ByteDance offers to buy\u200d back shares from TikTok employees outside the US<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>US watchdog proposes rules for Big Tech payments and digital wallets<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> Why was Ivanka Trump initially named as a defendant in the lawsuit,\u200c and why was she later removed from the case?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ivanka Trump Testifies in Trump Organization Civil Fraud Trial<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka Trump, daughter of\u200d former US President Donald Trump, testified on Wednesday as the last\u200b state witness in the \u2064$250 \u200cmillion civil fraud lawsuit brought \u200cby the\u2064 New York attorney general \u200bagainst her father and his firm. Ivanka, who \u2064has distanced herself from her\u2063 father&#8217;s\u2062 business empire for years, resigned from her position at the family business in 2017 and is not participating in her father&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign. However, she was once the executive vice president of the Trump Organization \u2062and a top advisor to her father during \u200bhis time as\u2062 president.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka was first named as\u2062 a defendant in a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia\u200d James. James claimed that Ivanka had a\u200d significant part in utilizing \u200cher father&#8217;s financial records to arrange commercial transactions that brought millions of dollars to\u200b her family&#8217;s company. However, she was\u2063 removed from \u200dthe case by \u2063an appeals court in June due \u200bto the state&#8217;s statute of limitations\u2064 not applying to her alleged actions.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to avoid testifying in court, Ivanka claimed that she\u200d lacked\u2062 knowledge about the alleged crimes at issue. But James countered, stating that Ivanka Trump &#8220;indisputably \u2064has personal \u2063knowledge of facts\u200d relevant to the\u2064 claims.&#8221; \u200dTaking a stance with James, Judge Arthur Engoron forced Ivanka to appear. Her application for an emergency stay was also turned down by an\u200c appeals court.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka, having exhausted all legal options, dropped her appeal \u2062and appeared in a New York courtroom to answer questions regarding her family&#8217;s business empire. Donald Trump gave his testimony on Monday, while his \u200csons, Eric and\u200b Donald Trump \u200dJr., \u200dalso appeared in court last week. \u2063James&#8217; lawsuit charges the Trump family with a ten-year fraud scheme to\u2062 misrepresent their assets to obtain favorable insurance \u2062and loan conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will determine what further proceedings and \u200cpenalties, if any, the defendants \u2064should face after the preliminary verdict by the case&#8217;s \u2063supervisory judge found that the \u2064Trumps are guilty of years&#8217; worth of deception. Trump and his sons \u200bhave appealed the judge&#8217;s pretrial decision \u2062and denied any\u200d misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>After sitting for a deposition on August 3rd, 2022, Ivanka denied any involvement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivanka Trump, daughter of former US President Donald Trump, arrives following the afternoon break as she testifies in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, at the New York State Supreme Court in New York City on November 8, 2023. 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