New York Attorney General accuses Trump of lying in response to lawsuit against the company

State Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday accused former President Donald Trump of lying to the record in a letter to the judge who presided over her lawsuit against his company.

Trump and his lawyers falsely denied “facts they admitted in other proceedings” and did not respond to the actual allegations “to the best of their knowledge,” James’ lawyers wrote in a letter to State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.

James is investigating whether Trump and his children broke the law by consistently manipulating the value of his estate to secure loans, tax breaks and other benefits.

“A number of the denials are clearly false and in fact contradict the sworn statements of the defendants in other proceedings,” James’ attorney wrote in a six-page letter.

James’s office asked Engoron to schedule a conference to discuss the issue and said they plan to ask him to impose sanctions. Last year, the same judge sanctioned Trump for failing to meet deadlines, fining him $10,000 a day for nearly two weeks.

The judge ruled that the former president violated a court-set deadline for handing over documents.

“Mr. Trump, I know you’re serious about your business, and I’m serious about mine,” Engoron said at the time. “I hereby declare you civil contempt and fine you $10,000 a day.”

In particular, James took issue with Trump’s lawyers’ objections regarding when he left his company for the White House. They disagreed with James’s characterization that Trump remains the “inactive president” of the Trump Organization.

James said Trump described himself that way in an October 2021 affidavit in a Bronx lawsuit filed by activists protesting his immigration policies.

“Well, I wasn’t active at the time I was at 4:00 pm,” Trump said in deposition, according to the court transcript. “I would say I was an inactive president and now I’m active again.”

Lawyers for the attorney general said the adult children of Trump and their lawyers also alternated denying and admitting the facts.

They said that Eric Trump denied and stated in the same case that Seven Springs purchased the building in December 1995 for $7.5 million.