Testimony from Trump's former CFO, indicated that the defense had not provided all discovery and there was huge evidence supportive of Trump's defense, recorded in a decade ago exchange between the CFO and Forbes magazine. This caused quite a stir in court, due to Forbes bringing up the old article, highlighting the defense evidence existed. There is also a small stir that the CFO had testified he hadn't thought much about the Trump Tower and now it comes out that he spent a bit of time dealing with that very tower and Forbes.

Trump's CFO had worked with Forbes to publicize the value of his Trump Tower. These were meant for Forbes richest person pandering. Consistent valuations similar to others were given, which the Judge and prosecutor, who are not a real estate experts, deemed and the Judge did rule that Trump Co's valuations were wrong and fraud, without evidence, expert testimony, or a trial,

Attempting to stick it to Trump, a decade ago, Forbes published a article with a document, trying to deceive the public into thinking Trump lied, inflating the square footage size of his Trump Tower penthouse, but this document proves the opposite and highlights how blatantly deceptive this case is.

The document was about design changes made to the penthouse and how that shifted the square footage by a hundred feet or more for the rental. This was due to how square footage didn't count or was counted differently, when, it was a common area not shared by all leasing tenants, was a maintenance area, storage, or under renovation, or connective areas that bridge multiple properties. This is because the document was in the context of some sort of land lord leasing and renting oversight board. Square footage that property leasers can't use, may not be counted fully in this context.

The document highlighted the huge swing of square footage that stems from different contexts, just as valuation and appraisals swing wildly, having many different rules/requirements, depending on the context.

Forbes also explained how they confirmed the square footage to be 30K with property records, instead of the court's assertion of around 11K square feet, which is conveniently only about the size of 1 of Trump's 3 floors, when claiming trump lied about 30K.

The news assumed the public was too dumb to know that a loan appraisal was very different from a sales listing valuation, a tax valuation, an insurance, and a fake valuation for internal use or to gloat to Forbes richest man contest. The whole premise is based on this logical fallacy of tricking the sucker into assuming these must be the same. The only problem, was they took the logical fallacy based media smear and tried to get an activist judge to sail it through as an actual court case. Already, he's been forced to make drastic and abnormal court actions to keep the lie of a case afloat.

Trump has not been charged with exaggerating wealth to Forbes magazine to inflate his richest person contest bids, but it is hard to think that may be illegal.