Donald Trump committed fraud for years by inflating his worth to banks and insurers, a New York judge finds

• Trump deceived banks and insurers, a Manhattan judge found Tuesday.
• The ruling is a pre-trial win for the state Attorney General, who wants him banned from doing business in NY.
• An October trial must still decide if that will happen.

In a stunning, pre-trial win in New York attorney general's all-out war on the Trump Organization, a Manhattan judge has found that Donald Trump committed fraud for years by inflating his worth to banks and insurers by as much as $3.6 billion a year.

A strongly-worded ruling by state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron rejected outright Trump's request for a range of pre-trial victories, calling his arguments "rehashed" and "erroneous."