Seems to me if everything was over-valued. And there were not “victims.”
Then shouldn’t Trump be the one getting some sort of refund from the property tax assessor? Refund from the insurance companies? Refund from the bank for over charging him on a bad loan amount?
If I said the property was worth a million and you agreed and loaned me the million, but the property was only really worth 25,000...and I paid the million, who defrauded who? It would appear to me that Trump is the victim here having overpaid for properties, property taxes, etc.
If everyone agreed to the value of the property at the time of the loan and it was paid....what are we doing here? All parties agreed and signed to the documents.
The piece you’re missing is that, in seeking the loans against the properties, it was Trump who supplies the overinflated valuations.
That may have landed him in more favorable territory as far as interest rates on the loans, but probably not, as the banks do their own lending appraisals, so trump’s overvaluations wouldn’t have been a factor in the transaction.
What’s egregious, here, is that all of this is common, none of it is illegal, none of it is anywhere else prosecuted as fraud, and there all of the supposedly harmed parties to this case testified in favor of the defense: that Trump didn’t harm them, that he applied for the loans, got the loans, serviced the loans, and retired the loans per the terms of the loans.
This is 100% pure Engoron malfeasance on the bench.
He needs to be disbarred, prosecuted, and imprisoned until dead.