judge engoron allowed him to make and maybe preparing for the press conference that he says he s going to have a little later on today. let me ask you, paul, as a defense attorney, what about the upcoming statement from the prosecutors would make you most nervous, would make you think that donald trump and the business he built, and i think they are so intertwined, his ego and his actual, you know, as david points out, a pretty strong balance sheet in the real estate market. what s at stake here? so, chris, i think the defense attorneys here have to recognize that this case is over. it s over in as much as judge engoron is going to make a decision, and give the attorney general much, if not all of what she wants. the defense attorneys were arguing and making arguments today for two audiences. first, and i think pretty
history of defaults. and i think from a legal standpoint, this is beside the point because as the other panelists have said, the judge has ruled that he, the financial statements that he and his company submitted to deutsche bank were fraudulent. having spent a lot of time talking to people inside the bank who were involved with the decision to make the loans, it s clear to me that they were relying to some extent on the financial statements. they were aware of trump s tendency so exaggerate and outright lie. i think they were taking his financial statements with a grain of salt, but there s no question that that was their first starting point in terms of how to decide what to lend him and under what terms. deutsche bank was happy with the relationship. but that does not speak to the question of whether or not they were tricked or duped by what trump was submitting to them. how key is that question, paul, whether they were tricked or duped? so it s going to go to the
what if it was suddenly trump tower without donald trump. some of the biggest buildings in the former president s real estate portfolio are at risk as his civil fraud trial nears its end. not only trump tower but trump park avenue, 40 wall street, 1290 avenue of the americas and two of his golf properties. joining me now, federal and white collar criminal defense attorney, caroline pelosi, and former u.s. attorney and former white collar defense attorney, paul charleston, new york times business investigations editor, and author of towers, david enrick joins me as well. can you just explain what actually could be the penalties involving these buildings? is it that his name is stripped off of them, he can t manage them, he can t collect money off
california or washington, d.c., quote, the parties have engaged in further plea negotiations, but are at an impasse. the government now believes that the case will not resolve short of a trial. this is from a filing, this has been filed by our producer, daniel barnes, and here it says if i can show this on camera, this is what i m now reading from. this is united states motion to voluntarily dismiss criminal tax information without prejudice so that tax charges can be brought in a district where venue lies. paul, i interrupted you, but you and joyce are the lawyers among us and i can monica has something to add as well. joyce, why don t you pick it up and then paul as well. let s kick this back and forth. it s precisely as paul was saying. this breakdown of this plea agreement is iexplicable how
delaware, if there is going to be a combative process going forward, a trial, which we hear in this new pleading the special prosecutor anticipates, then venue for those charges will likely be in california or the district of columbia and we will see an indictment sought in one of those forums. and, paul, do you want to add something to that? i interrupted you only because we just were given the court s filing. the prosecutor s filing. only to say, andrea, that this pleading makes it a bad day for hunter biden. what was once a hope that he would resolve these tax cases now means according to this filing he s going to trial on this case and the facts as set out in that plea agreement sound relatively simple, he made a certain amount of money and he didn t pay taxes on them. so this tax case, once looked like it was going to be resolved, now going to trial. you don t get the benefit of the bargain, you don t get the fact that the prosecutors may look at you and offer or suggest a mor