The New York Attorney General requested that Trump be fined $370 million and banned from doing business in that city.

New York State Lawyers On Friday, they increased their request for sanctions in the civil trial for business fraud Donald TrumpWhile his defense said that more than ten weeks of testimony provided no evidence of fraudulent intent or ill-gotten gains.

Both sides highlighted their conclusions from the trial in court documents before closing arguments. Trump is expected to attend, although plans may change.

It will be the last chance for state and defense attorneys to make their arguments in a lawsuit that has implications for the Republican presidential nominee even as he fights four criminal cases in multiple courts.

New York civil case may end Preventing him from doing business in the state where he built his real estate empire, The Attorney General of the State, Letitia JamesNow search for more Fines amounting to $370 million. This number appeared in his office file on Friday; The state had requested $250 million before the trial, but increased the amount to more than $300 million during the proceedings.

The lawsuit filed by James accuses Trump, his company and key executives of defrauding banks and insurance companies out of… Significantly inflating his net worth. James asserts that Trump received attractive interest rates on loans and insurance because of the wealth he claimed in his personal “statements of financial position,” or short.

The lawsuit alleges that the documents were provided Expensive prices for golf courses and hotels And more, including Trump's former home in his namesake tower in New York and his current home at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

“The conclusion that defendants intended to defraud in preparing and certifying Trump’s SFCs is inescapable,” he wrote. Kevin Wallace, an attorney for James' office, said in a document filed Friday. “The countless deceptive schemes they used to inflate asset values ​​and hide facts were so outrageous that they belied an innocent explanation.”

The defendants include their children Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, They deny any wrongdoing.

The former president asserts that any such exaggeration The penthouse apartment in Trump Tower is valued at nearly three times its actual size. They were just mistakes and made no difference in the overall picture of his wealth.

He also says the documents are legally bulletproof because they said the numbers were not audited, among other caveats. The defense says the recipients simply understood them as starting points for their own analyses.

None of its lenders testified that they would not have made the loans or charged more interest if their financial statements had shown different numbers, defense lawyers wrote in a filing Friday for Trump, the Trump Organization and some executives.

The state “has provided no factual evidence from any witnesses that the gains were illegally obtained,” the attorneys wrote. Michael Madeo And Christopher Case. They said there was no evidence that insurance companies were being defrauded.

Separately, defense lawyers argued that lawsuits against Executive Vice Presidents Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. should be dismissed because they did not have “anything more than peripheral knowledge of or involvement in the creation, preparation, or use” of their financial statements.

The lawyers said the children relied on the work of other Trump Organization executives and an outside accounting firm that prepared those documents. Clifford Robert And Michael Farinaechoing the testimony of the descendants themselves.

His father also stood and made a series of comments in the courtroom hallway. He called the case a political maneuver by James, Judge Arthur Engoron and other Democrats.Saying they are abusing the legal system to try to cut off his chances of regaining the White House this year.

Sentencing is up to the judge because James brought the case under state law that does not allow a jury. Engoron said she expects a decision to be made by the end of this month.

Charges of conspiracy, insurance fraud and falsifying business records will be considered. But it ruled before trial on the lawsuit's main claim, finding that Trump and other defendants had engaged in fraud for years. With this ruling, the judge ordered the receiver to seize some of the former president's properties, but the appeals court has frozen this order for the time being.

In addition to the $370 million in fines, plus interest, James Trump wants Banned from doing business in New York.

During the trial, Engoron fined Trump $ $15,000 After it was discovered that he had violated a gag order prohibiting all participants in the trial from commenting publicly on the judge's staff. The order was imposed after Trump defamed the judge's chief law clerk.

Trump's lawyers are appealing the gag order.

(With information from AP)