John Cassidy on the civil fraud trial against Donald Trump, which will decide the Trump Organization’s future, and the testimony of his sons Eric and Donald, Jr.
In the early years covered by the government’s case, the brothers had independent roles at the Trump Organization—Donald, Jr., focussed on leasing and licensing deals; Eric worked on operations and new developments. But the testimony showed how they were also drawn into the web of deceit needed to sustain the myth that their father was a multibillionaire, which centered on the annual production of a Statement of Financial Condition that grossly exaggerated the value of Trump properties.
Initially, he, too, insisted that he didn’t have anything to do with the annual Statements of Financial Condition. But Andrew Amer, another assistant attorney general, produced a 2013 e-mail to him from Jeff McConney, the former Trump employee who put together a spreadsheet that purported to justify the inflated figures, asking for help valuing a Trump-owned estate in Westchester called Seven Springs.
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