Before the start of the actual trial, Letitia James had asked the court in New York for a kind of preliminary trial, a so-called summary judgment. In it she asked the judge to rule on her charges. If certain elements are considered beyond dispute in advance, elements about which there is no discussion, this can speed up the course of the actual process, the attorney general argued.
Yesterday the judge gave his ruling. And the defendants have indeed lied several times about the financial condition of their companies, the judge ruled. “The documents clearly contain fraudulent, false valuations that the defendants used in their business practices,” the judge wrote. In other words, there is fraud in the valuation of their real estate to defraud banks and insurers.
2023-09-27 05:38:00
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