Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is expected to testify when former President Donald Trump's civil fraud resumes this morning.

A named defendant in the case alongside Trump and his adult sons, Weisselberg allegedly supervised and approved the inflated valuations in Trump's financial statements at the center of the state's case, according to state attorneys.

He's also alleged to have personally met with the former president each year between 2011 and 2016 to review and get approval for the fraudulent financial statements.

"Mr. Trump made known through Mr. Weisselberg that he wanted his net worth on the Statements to increase -- a desire Mr. Weisselberg and others carried out year after year in their fraudulent preparation of the Statements," New York Attorney General Letitia James wrote in her initial complaint.

A New York appellate judge declined to pause Donald Trump's ongoing civil fraud trial, after attorneys for Trump sought a stay of the trial while they appeal Judge Arthur Engoron's summary judgment ruling last week that decided the core of the case.

Judge Peter Moulton issued the ruling minutes after hearing oral arguments from both sides. While he did not pause the trial, he did stop the immediate cancelation of Trump's business certificates that Engoron had ordered last week.

"This is everything owned or controlled by the defendant. Once you dissolve you dissolve," defense attorney Christopher Kise argued in an afternoon hearing convened at the Appellate Division's First Department. "It's chaos. It's chaos right now."

The New York attorney general's office balked at halting the trial.

"There's just absolutely no basis for an interim stay of trial that's already been going on for a week," said Deputy Solicitor General Judy Vale. "It has been an enormous endeavor to get this off the ground."

Trump's defense insisted a pause was warranted given the magnitude of the potential consequences for Trump's business.

"We're not seeking delay. We're seeking a fair trial," Kise said before the judge ruled that the trial would continue.

The trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday morning.

State attorney Andrew Amer ended the afternoon dramatically, questioning longtime Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney about whether he had ever helped Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg commit tax fraud.

McConney initially responded that he had not -- prompting Amer to confront McConney with his testimony from the Trump Organization's 2022 tax fraud trial, at which he testified the opposite.

Among other offenses, McConney testified during that trial that he processed a payroll check to Weisselberg's wife so she could claim social security benefits.

"You engaged in this illegal conduct because Mr. Weisselberg was your boss and if you refused his requests, you would lose your job?" Amer asked.

"Yes," McConney said.

The trial adjourned until Tuesday, when it's scheduled to resume with the direct examination of Weisselberg.

This afternoon, an appellate court will take up Trump’s request to pause the trial while he appeals Judge Engoron's summary judgment ruling last week that decided the core of the case.

Longtime Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney continued to value Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in excess of $500 million -- on the basis that the property could be sold as private residences -- despite knowing that Trump has signed a deed in 2002 with the National Trust for Historic Preservation exclusively limiting the property to being used as a club.

"Mr. Trump had deeded away his rights to use the property for any purpose other than a social club," state attorney Andrew Amer said while questioning McConney, who initially claimed he was unaware of the requirement but subsequently testified that he was aware of the 2002 deed.

Despite the requirement, McConney -- according to Trump's financial statements -- valued Mar-a-Lago as if the property could be sold as individual residences, every year that he oversaw the statements, between 2011 and 2017.

Donald Trump, in 2014, valued his Los Angeles golf club at over $100 million more than the amount it was appraised at, according to evidence shown in court.

Trump's former tax attorney, Sheri Dillon, testified that when working on a conservation easement for the driving range at Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles in 2014, she received an appraisal that valued the entire club at $107 million.

However, the spreadsheet used to create Trump's financial statements placed the value of the golf club at $213 million that same year, according to documents entered into evidence.

Shown the document during her testimony, Dillion said she was unfamiliar with it.

"I have never seen this document. I don't even know what this is," she said when she was shown the spreadsheet, which Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney previously testified he maintained.

When state attorney Louis Solomon attempted to highlight the alleged overvaluation, their exchange grew combative.

"We have the right to treat her as a hostile witness," Solomon said -- a request that was granted by Judge Engoron.

"Did you ever discuss with anyone at the Trump Organization the valuation of [the golf club]?" Solomon asked Dillon at one point.

"I don't recall. Over the years, I am sure it came up at some point," Dillon said, though she could not recall if she directly discussed it with then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.

Court was subsequently adjourned for the day, with Dillon's testimony scheduled to resume tomorrow morning.