Award-winning researcher and professor of accounting at NYU’s Stern School of Business Eli Bartov ‘couldn’t find a single GAAP provision that was violated.’
Former President Donald Trump returned to Manhattan’s famous courthouse on Dec. 7 to hear the last expert witness testify in his defense before he will take the stand himself next week.
Eli Bartov, professor of accounting at NYU’s Stern School of Business and an award-winning researcher, has published several papers on financial reporting misconduct—the issue at the heart of the case against President Trump.
Last year, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued President Trump for defrauding the state, and a week before his trial began this fall New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled in her favor, deciding that President Trump was indeed liable for fraud and had inflated his net worth on the yearly Statements of Financial Condition (SFoC) produced by the Trump Organization.
Defense lawyers are presumably preparing their appeal of the final ruling and orders, which they have said they believe will be unfavorable, and in recent weeks have been making public allegations of court bias and misconduct. Earlier this…
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