With their backs pressed against the wall by two simultaneous tax-dodging investigations in New York, the Trump dynasty is starting to hit back.
On Monday afternoon, copies of subpoenas and details about the investigation were exposed in court documents filed by attorneys for former President Donald Trump and his adult kids—Don Jr. and Ivanka. The trio is trying to avoid being forced to testify under oath in a civil investigation, saying their statements will simply be used in a parallel criminal investigation that could threaten them with prison time.
“The [office of the attorney general] is engaged in a criminal investigation that has an active Grand Jury. It cannot issue subpoenas for testimony under the guise of a civil investigation that will immediately become available—to its own… criminal investigation,” they said in a court filing.
Earlier in the day, court documents were made public showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James had set her sights on the former president and his two children for refusing to cooperate with her civil probe into potential tax dodging and bank fraud. Although these kinds of investigations tend to be quiet matters until a formal lawsuit is filed—or both sides reach a settlement—this is starting to become an airing of dirty laundry.
As such, the Trump family has used this as an opportunity to start exposing details about the AG’s investigation.
There is another ongoing grand jury in New York looking into criminal matters related to the Trump Organization, proving that the investigation didn’t stop with the indictment of company chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg last summer. And it’s now clear that New York state investigators want the former president to turn over information about the Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, his forested Seven Springs Estate north of New York City, and donations made to land conservation causes that could lower his tax bill.
Investigators also want copies of communications Trump had with Forbes magazine about his wealth and any financial documents he submitted to “insurance underwriters or insurance brokers” valuing his assets. The AG’s office wanted Ivanka to sit down for a deposition on Monday, followed by Don Jr. on Tuesday, and former President Trump on Friday. All these details were revealed in copies of the subpoenas, which were posted in court by the Trumps.
In response, AG James issued a statement Monday night saying, “For more than two years, members of the Trump family and the Trump Organization have continually sought to delay and impede our investigation into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization, but despite their names, they must play by the same rules as everyone else.”
Attorneys for the Trumps argue that the New York attorney general is trying to get the Trumps to testify about their wildly varying real estate values in a way that would let investigators use that information in the AG’s current criminal investigation into the Trump Organization, which it’s conducting alongside the Manhattan district attorney.
That accusation hinges on the idea that, in New York, a person who testifies before a grand jury in a criminal case receives immunity from what they reveal, so they’re protected from facing criminal charges. The Trumps say the AG is trying to get information out of them—without the benefit of immunity—by trying to “circumvent the grand jury procedural safeguards of our judicial system.”
“The subpoenas are an obvious improper end-run around the rules,” said the Trumps’ court filing, which described the AG’s actions as an attempt to “co-mingle” the investigations. “The fact is that the [attorney general’s office] is one, singular agency running a criminal investigation. It may claim to split itself into two to avoid complying with grand jury practice, but this it cannot do.”
In the filing, the Trumps also accused the AG’s office of leaking to reporters that Trump was asked to show up for a deposition on Jan. 7. Last month, The Washington Post broke news that investigators wanted the former president to show up and answer questions at their office in New York City.
“To their credit, [AG] attorneys on this matter apologized to counsel for Mr. Trump. The leak was clearly made from the administration of the [attorney general’s office,”] Trump family attorneys said in one footnote.
The Trumps want the state court judge overseeing the case to eliminate the subpoenas, or at least hold off on enforcing them until the joint AG-DA criminal investigation is over.
The request in court was signed by four lawyers representing the Trumps. The former president is being represented by Ronald P. Fischetti, who made a career defending mobsters, and
Alina Habba, who recently helped him file a federal lawsuit against James. Trump is also being represented by Michael T. van der Veen, who oddly sued Trump—and later defended him during his presidential impeachment. Don Jr. and Ivanka, who are Trump Organization executives, are being represented by company lawyer Alan S. Futerfas.
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Original Article: Trump Family Starts Airing Dirty Laundry to Fight Off Subpoenas (yahoo.com)
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The Democratic Party record of failures continues to grow yet they have no clue or idea when to stop their phony pursuits of simply anything that may be negative about Trump and his family. The crazy AG of New York is obviously on a vendictive witch hunt that may well result in eventually adding to the Democratic total of unsuccessful attempts to down the Donald. And look at the absolute sham that is going on in Washington, D.C. with this Jan 6 commission or more accurately kangeroo court. The tables need to be turned on all these idiots who need to be prosecuted for their evil corrupt dealings in these regards. Proven liars such as Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and their supporting gang are leading the pack here again and there is no way that their actions contain even an once of truth now.
Everybody absolutely believed with the appointment of Mueller and his group that – “give me a name and I will find you a crime” could work for them. When that stellar group led by a famous pit-bull prosecutor didn’t find the goods the baton was picked up by the group in NIY and it So keeps on and on. In America crime fishing is not legal – there needs to be a crime detected and THEN you can “investigate”! I don’t understand how this sort of harassment can go on and on! They are despicable humans paid by the taxpayers to commit their smut!!
It just never ends. And here we have a supposed President of the United States by the name of Joseph Biden who has a lifetime of crime, did more crime after the fake inauguration and commits high treason every time he turns around and no one investigates Joe Biden. Kind of disgusting isn’t it. Then there is the business of trying to get Trump’s tax history when the IRS always has been an illegal organization all along. Now, what most people do not know is the IRS has been boarded up. It no longer exists. SO, by the skunks that are trying to take Trump down, get his business history, his tax history will backfire. They will all end up in prison for the rest of their lives in the long run. I cannot wait for that to happen. It can’t come soon enough.
This New York AG is a disgusting pig who likes to waste taxpayer money just because she personally hates Trump! I hope this loud mouthed AG loses at every turn. Only a state like New York would have such a pos AG.
In the end they will all get bitten,from Biden down through the ranks of the crap bowl!
Yes they will ( get bitten )! But they’re not going to like it, because when God bites, you know where these DEMONICrats will end up! For now, the idiots finally can figure out that they are DONE! So, this looks like it’s the last draw. They are LOSERS ON EVERYTHING! And they’re grasping at straws. Merrick Garland IS a demo!
I would like to know when Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff and many other democrats will be investigated for the huge
amounts of money they have received from SOROS, CHINA, and other countries! These people have continued to
receive money from other countries without paying taxes on those monies!
Anyone interested in the taxes of New York Attorney General Laetitia James, the swindlers Bill de Blasio, Pelosi, Schumer or Feinstein? I think that Trump and his family should not pay attention to these scammers, they should prepare to accept the country destroyed by these scammers and completely rebuild the tortured and plundered America in order to make America great again!
The People pushing this agenda should all have to lay THEIR own dirty laundry on the table, but I fear there would not be a table big enough !
The devil is blinding, their is no one without fault but we common folks have to pay taxes and most of us can’t hire a lawyer who has defended some of the best criminals, it’s not about the party it’s about the person
How many times will the Trump family have to spend a fortune proving that the idiot democRATS are out to put them in jail when the idiot democRATS have committed the crimes that the Trumps are being accused of, always told people when someone accuses you of something that you know you are not guilty of, look into that persons background to see why they have so much information on their facts and if you can hire a good private investigator you will find out the accuser is basing their accusations on their own misdeeds