Donald Bender, the accountant for Mazar’s who prepared Donald Trump’s tax returns and financial statements used to attract financial support for his endeavors, testified recently before the Manhattan grand jury investigating alleged Trump ploys to manipulate the value of his assets to defraud lenders and underpay his taxes, the Washington Post reports.
Rosemary Vrablic, the managing director for Deutsche Bank who oversaw Trump’s business relationship with the bank and approved hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, also testified to the same grand jury recently. Vrablic unexpectedly resigned from her job at the company a year ago amid an internal probe into a loan she made to a company partially owned by Jared Kushner.
The testimony from the two financial professionals is expected to shed light on the millions of pages of documentation Mazar’s and Deutsche Bank provided the grand jury. Trump is accused of lowering the stated values of his businesses and properties to reduce his tax burden, and then inflating the values to justify loans and business dealings.