re: Letitia James Faces Growing Pressure to Prosecute Jon Stewart over Property Overvaluation

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Who alleged fraud to the department of revenue? Was that part of the damages assessed by the judge?

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Yes, it was. It was Cohen who originally said Trump would value his properties high for lenders and low for tax purposes. James brought the receipts.

Stewart referenced lost tax revenue as a reason there were victims of Trump's fraud.

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Not necessarily. You’re smart enough to know that occupancy of apartment buildings fluctuate daily. Were these claims made the same day, month, yea

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Average occupancy. But don't get hung up on this one example. Trump had a repeated practice over decades of making these types of demonstrably false statements in his financial disclosures.

And yes, lease terms and average occupancies are a major factor in assessing the value of commercial property.

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The reason he claimed those representations to the lenders were fraudulent was because the assessed value is so much less

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As I noted above, we must have seen different Jon Stewart clips. I agree that a vast difference in assessed value vs. Market value is not fraudulent on its own.

But Trump was making objectively false statements in his financial disclosures. He wasn't just claiming properties had certain values, he was making false statements to support those values, such as average occupancies, or the size of his own penthouse.

Regardless, I just don't see how any of this relates to Stewart selling his own home, unless he really does claim having a huge discrepancy in values should be considered fraud.

Even then, Stewart could not be sued under the same provision as Trump, because that statute requires "repeated or persistent fraud or ilegality" and a single transaction is not going to be actionable.