
Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump and his family business were found liable for fraud on Tuesday by a New York judge in state Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit accusing the former U.S. president of illegally inflating his assets and net worth. The decision by Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York state court in Manhattan is a near total defeat for Trump, and limits the scope of a scheduled Oct. 2 trial largely to how much the defendants should pay in damages. Engoron also ordered the cancellation of business certificates for the Trump Organiz…