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Estiveo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:20 pm Just copy/paste the URL.

An attorney for Ivanka Trump, Bennet Moskowitz, filed the notice of appeal on Wednesday in a New York appellate court after Judge Arthur Engoron ordered her to testify last week.

Ivanka Trump’s attorney had been seeking to quash the subpoena for her testimony because she’s no longer a defendant in the case. But Engoron last week ruled she must testify, though he gave her time to file an appeal.

Among the issues Moskowitz asked the appellate court to consider was whether the New York civil court had jurisdiction over Ivanka Trump since she has not lived or worked in New York since 2017.

Ivanka Trump’s testimony is tentatively slated for next Wednesday, November 8. It’s not clear whether the appeal will affect that timing.

Ivanka Trump had initially been listed as a co-defendant – along with Donald Trump, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and several Trump Organization executives – in the $250 million lawsuit filed last September by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging they were involved in an expansive fraud scheme lasting over a decade that the former president and his eldest children used to enrich themselves.

In June, however, a New York appeals court dismissed Ivanka Trump as a co-defendant, finding the claims against her were too old, because she was not part of an August 2021 agreement between James’ office and the Trump Organization to toll the statute of limitations.

Donald Trump Jr. struggled to answer questions when pressed about why former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg departed the family's firm.

"Because some legal issues he got himself into," Trump Jr. said, declining to offer specifics about Weisselberg's guilty plea on tax evasion charges last year.

Previously giving lengthy answers to questions about his background and even smiling with the judge, Trump Jr. appeared tense on the witness stand as he answered questions about Weisselberg.

"The specific event was he was indicted," Trump Jr. said.

He added that when began working for the Trump Organization as an executive vice president in the 2010s, Weisselberg outranked him. Trump Jr. would seek Weisselberg's approval for certain business decisions such as refinancing loans.

"Who is above you in your role as an executive vice president in the Trump Organization?" state attorney Colleen Faherty asked.

"Obviously I would have reported to my father in that period of time … people like Allen Weisselberg would have still been senior to me," Trump Jr. said of that time period.

Trump Jr. said he gained more responsibility in 2016 when his father became president and he was named a trustee of his father's revocable trust. He said that he, Weisselberg and his brother Eric Trump became a kind of triumvirate running the Trump Organization.

"We stopped reporting to my father on decisions involving the business," Trump Jr. said.

That relationship broke down once Weisselberg got himself into "legal issues," Trump Jr. said. He testified that he could not recall the circumstances of Weisselberg's exit, including the multimillion-dollar severance deal that Weisselberg received, which Weisselberg faced questions about during his own testimony earlier this month.

"I have no knowledge of the specifics of how it happened. He is no longer working at the Trump Organization," Trump Jr. said of the former CFO.

Kendra wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 11:22 am Thanks for the links guys. Now to get my receivables closed so I can go home and read them all

"This Rigged Trial, brought by the Racist New York State A.G. Letitia James before Trump and developer Hating Judge, Arthur Engoron, which should have never been brought in that the so-called STAR WITNESS, SleazeBag Lawyer (for many people) Michael Cohen, admitted last week on the stand that he LIED, and also that your favorite President, Donald J. Trump, or anyone from the Trump Organization, NEVER TOLD HIM TO INFLATE VALUES ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, the opposite of what he told the A.G. in order to get this HOAX started," Trump wrote.

"Therefore, on that fact alone, this Fake Case should be dismissed. Additionally, however, the Financial Statements Values are Conservative (LOW!), Mar-a-Lago is worth MUCH MORE than $18,000,000, there is a 100% Disclaimer Clause on the 1st page of the Statements, the Banks and Insurance Companies were paid in full, no defaults, they all made money, and there is no Victim (except me!).

"Leave my children alone, Engoron. You are a disgrace to the legal profession," he added.

Trump's legal team has been contacted for further comment via email.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... f6b89&ei=9

cjroberts wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:36 pm Did they have to put a booster seat in the witness chair for Jr. or is he in a highchair? I can't believe the Deep state is taking aim at mere children.

noblepa wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:24 pm Also, too, IIRC, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill was passed in the aftermath of the Enron debacle. The law states that top executives, particularly those who sign a company's financial statements, have a positive duty to understand them and to know, not simply believe someone telling them, that the statements are accurate. IOW, Jr.'s defense is specifically precluded by Sarbanes-Oxley.

Or does the act only apply to publicly traded companies?

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:10 pm

noblepa wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:24 pm Also, too, IIRC, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill was passed in the aftermath of the Enron debacle. The law states that top executives, particularly those who sign a company's financial statements, have a positive duty to understand them and to know, not simply believe someone telling them, that the statements are accurate. IOW, Jr.'s defense is specifically precluded by Sarbanes-Oxley.

Or does the act only apply to publicly traded companies?

Thank you for asking this. I was curious, too, but wanted to read the entire thread-gain since I went to bed last night (I'm 10-11 hours ahead of East Coast time most of the year, so it's about 6am for me now) to see if someone else did first.