All posts tagged "Eli Bartov"

Judge Arthur Engoron Monday relentlessly mocked Trump, his attorneys and his financial expert in a scathing rejection of the former president’s fifth dismissal request in his $250 million fraud case, according to a new report.

Engoron slammed accounting expert Eli Bartov, the NYU professor who was reportedly paid nearly $900,000 to testify that Trump’s financial records did not fraudulently inflate his worth, as is contended by New York Attorney General Letitia James, ABC News reports.

"Bartov is a tenured professor, but all that his testimony proves is that for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say," Engoron reportedly wrote....

An expert paid nearly $900,000 to testify in Donald Trump's fraud trial once had his evidence tossed by a New York judge who found it “flatly” contradictory, according to reports and court records.

Evidence from Eli Bartov — an NYU professor paid $877,500 to testify in defense of Trump’s accounting methods — was rejected by the judge in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against ExxonMobil in 2019, ABC News reports.

State attorney Louis Solomon made this revelation Tuesday as he cross-examined Bartov in the $250 million civil fraud trial against Trump, his two sons and the Trump Organization, according to the report. Trump has denied wrongdoing....

Trump Organization financial records are much like a pack of cigarettes, Donald Trump’s expert witness reportedly testified Thursday.

Eli Bartov compared the company's statements of financial condition — at the heart of Letitia James’ $250 million fraud lawsuit against the former president — to the nation’s leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

“He is testifying that the information in the accompanying footnotes should be heeded,” Rubin told her followers on X. ...

An expert witness for Donald Trump in his $250 million fraud trial Thursday testified there was “no question” about the swollen valuation of former president’s Manhattan triplex, according to reports.

Accounting expert Eli Bartov told the court Trump had added about $100 million to the value of his Trump Tower triplex in statements of financial condition between 2011 and 2012, ABC News reports.

“The price was inflated,” Bartov reportedly said. “There is no question about it.”...