Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to New York on Thursday to be heard in a civil trial over fraud at his group, the Trump Organization, a week after his criminal indictment in another case .
In this civil case, New York State Attorney General Letitia James is suing Donald Trump and three of his children, seeking $250 million in damages for tax and asset valuation fraud. of the group. “I’m going to downtown (New York) to meet a racist who leaked that I’ll be there at 9:30“, wrote Donald Trump about the prosecutor, elected under the Democratic label and who is African-American.
Requested by AFP this week, the services of the Attorney General had not confirmed this hearing, which could take place in her offices. Donald Trump had already been heard under oath in August by the prosecutor and had remained silent. New York justice has already set the trial for October 2, 2023.
The former president, who hopes to return to the White House in 2024, called the case “ridicule“, “just like all the other cases of election interference that I am the subject of“.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James accuses the Republican billionaire and his children of having “deliberately“manipulated the valuations of the group’s assets – which includes golf clubs, luxury hotels and other properties – to obtain better loans from banks or reduce its taxes.
This case is separate from the criminal case in which Donald Trump was indicted last week for 34 alleged accounting and tax frauds.
