7, 2023.ĮDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Imagesīartov also acknowledged that the value of Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower in Manhattan was 'inflated' in his financial statement, but attributed the discrepancy to 'an error in the calculation,' which he said was 'not unusual.' Forbes magazine revealed in 2017 that Trump's three-story apartment was about a third of the size he had long claimed - about 11,000 square feet, instead of more than 30,000 - and thus far less valuable.īartov testified as an expert in a 2019 New York State case against Exxon, but Kevin Wallace, a lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James, said Bartov's opinions weren't relevant to evidence presented at trial.
Former President Donald Trump attends his civil fraud trial in the New York State Supreme Court on Dec. 'This is absolutely opinion, yes,' Bartov replied.
