Judge Arthur F. Engoron’s surprising allegations were included in his court ruling Wednesday, which formally ordered Cushman & Wakefield to hand over documents to the New York Attorney General’s office. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the Trump Agency over what prosecutors have judged to be a long-standing motive for the value of golf resorts and buildings in California and New York, as part of a plan to build a safe haven. In his ruling, the judge said he had examined personally sensitive documents in his courtroom privacy indicating that Cushman & Wakefield officials had played together – a convicting revelation that could open the global company to charges of conspiracy with the agency. Trump. “This court has examined a number of closed-door documents proving that C&W was not consistent in adhering to internal quality control practices when conducting evaluations on behalf of the Trump Agency,” he wrote. By enforcing AG’s summonses, Engoron’s court order adds basic support to the New York investigation, which heats up on what could be the final stage of the investigation. When the investigation is completed, James will be able to sue Trump and others for violations of the state business laws – and seek to close them permanently and seek monetary compensation. “It is the OAG’s responsibility to investigate C&W ratings to determine whether C&W has properly and accurately disclosed to regulators and other government authorities whether its internal quality controls have been complied with,” Engoron added. Sawnie A. McEntire, a Texas attorney representing the real estate services company, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In its multi-year investigation, the AG office has already collected hundreds of thousands of documents describing how Trump valued the Trump Tower skyscraper on New York’s Fifth Avenue, his private golf club and the Seven Springs Forest Estate north of the city. another golf club near Los Angeles. Some of the data released by James in January revealed the ridiculous lengths that Trump took to inflate the value of his property, including a case where he lied by simply tripling the size of his already huge three-story penthouse in the Trump Tower. The former president’s company, which has been referred twice, has repeatedly turned to Cushman & Wakefield to assess the value of these properties. Researchers say they need additional data from Cushman & Wakefield to see if the company has played fast and relaxed with other customers. The company denied the allegations, saying that handing over such property data to law enforcement would violate the company’s rights to keep it secret. In court on Monday, AG’s lawyers described how their investigators had caught Cushman & Wakefield employees lying in ways that would benefit the Trump Organization. Assistant Attorney General Austin Thompson described how the company’s appraisers usually relinquished their responsibilities and simply disregarded what Trump and its outside attorney, Sheri Dillon, wanted. He cited two cases in Los Angeles and Seven Springs where appraisers claimed to have created value estimates that were included in scheduled real estate development schedules – except that appraisers had just filled in the gaps as they were told. “In both cases, a Cushman appraiser seems to have set the growth schedule and falsely attributed it to someone else,” Thompson told the court Monday. Thompson said that when investigators searched for the necessary records from the company, it responded in an “uncompromising and uncompromising” manner — delivering documents without explanation or framework, leaving lawyers with no idea how to sort the evidence.
