N.Y. AG raises pressure on Trump, 2 children to testify in intensifying business probe
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Attorney General Letita James said "significant evidence" has emerged tying Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to fraudulent and misleading business practices.
New York’s attorney general said Tuesday she has taken legal action to compel former U.S. president Donald Trump and two of his adult children to testify in an investigation into the family’s business practices.
Attorney General Letitia James’ office said she has filed motions to compel Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to appear for sworn testimony, and for Trump to produce documents sought in the yearslong civil probe involving matters including “the valuation of properties owned or controlled” by Trump and his company.
“We have uncovered significant evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent and misleading asset valuations on multiple properties to obtain economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions for years,” James said in a statement.
“Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump have all been closely involved in the transactions in question, so we won’t tolerate their attempts to evade testifying in this investigation.”
James’ office said that “significant additional evidence” has been uncovered in the years since Trump’s son Eric — who along with Donald Trump Jr. have helped run the Trump Organization during their father’s political career — was subpoenaed in 2020.
The motion to compel was filed in opposition to the Trumps’ own motion to dismiss James’ subpoenas of Trump, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, which were issued early this month.
Lawyers for the Trumps called the subpoenas “an unprecedented and unconstitutional maneuver” and accused James of attempting to obtain testimony that could then be used against the Trumps in a parallel criminal investigation being overseen by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
James “seeks to circumvent the entire grand jury process” and nullify the Trumps’ rights by forcing them to testify without the immunity that’s guaranteed under state law if they were subpoenaed to testify in front of the grand jury in the criminal probe, the Trumps’ lawyers wrote in their motion to dismiss.
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