Trump Directed Bogus Asset Inflation, Ex-Fixer Cohen Says (3)

Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen told a New York judge that the former president instructed him to inflate his net worth by billions of dollars to dupe banks and insurers, backing claims made by New York state at its $250 million civil fraud trial.

Cohen, who served time in prison for tax evasion, on Tuesday came face to face with his ex-boss for the first time in five years in a packed Manhattan courtroom. Cohen said Trump would ask him and former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg to “reverse engineer” his net worth to ...