The Trump crime family suffered a major defeat on Monday when the United States Supreme Court rejected “Mafia Don” Trump’s plea to keep his financial records away from prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
CNBC reports Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to shield tax records from NY prosecutors:
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-ditch bid by former President Donald Trump to keep his financial records, including years of his tax returns, out of the hands of the Manhattan district attorney, Cy Vance Jr.
The decision, the second time the nation’s highest court has weighed in on the matter, was announced in an order with no noted dissents. The news further imperils the ex-president, who is facing investigations in New York and elsewhere.
The legal battle over Trump’s financial records, including personal and business documents dating to 2011, comes in connection with an investigation by Vance’s office into potential tax violations.
The district attorney is also reportedly examining hush money payments made on Trump’s behalf to two women who have said they had affairs with him. Trump has denied their claims.
In a statement posted to Twitter, Vance wrote: “The work continues.”
A spokesman for Vance, Danny Frost, said that the office would not comment further but indicated that it would quickly move to enforce its subpoena on the president’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA.
The ruling comes three days after The New York Times reported that Vance’s office had retained a former federal prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, who has extensive experience handling white-collar fraud cases, to work on the Trump investigation.
The subpoenas are to Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, and to Trump’s main lender, Deutsche Bank.
A New York Times investigation of publicly obtainable records, and records provided by his niece, Mary Trump, showed LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE.
With RICO specialist Mark Pomerantz now on the prosecution team, the Trump crime family is in deep doo-doo!
I will update as reporting merits.
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UPDATE: The Daily Beast reports, “NY Prosecutors Are Looking at Don Jr. in Trump Biz Probe”, https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-is-being-examined-by-new-york-prosecutors-in-trump-business-probe (subscription required)
“[I]nvestigators with the D.A.’s office have been expanding their criminal probe into Trump’s business empire, asking questions and grilling witnesses—as recently as in the past few days—not only about Trump but particularly about his eldest son, Don Jr., and Allen Weisselberg, one of the former president’s most trusted officers.”
UPDATE: Here is a non-subscriber version of the report at Yahoo News, “NY Prosecutors Are Looking at Don Jr. in Trump Biz Probe”, https://news.yahoo.com/ny-prosecutors-looking-don-jr-020047454.html
The District’s AG is interested in dumbass Donny Jr. as well. CNN reports “Donald Trump Jr. deposed by DC attorney general as part of inaugural funds lawsuit”, https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/donald-trump-jr-deposition/index.html
In a court document dated Tuesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine’s office revealed the former President’s son was deposed on February 11.
The filing states that Trump’s deposition “raised further questions about the nature” of a hotel invoice Racine’s office has been investigating. The attorney general’s office alleges that the Trump Organization signed a contract with the Loews Madison hotel for $49,358.92 for a block of rooms during the 2017 inauguration, and that the invoice was later forwarded to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which then paid the bill, according to the filing.
Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization who run the real-estate company on a day-to-day basis, are under scrutiny for their roles in the family business.
The DC attorney general’s office has requested to have more time to obtain discovery materials and conduct depositions, according to the filing, adding that the office has been met with “repeated obstacles, including misleading testimony, a closed hotel and new information revealed after the deadline for issuing discovery requests passed on February 8.”
The Loews Madison is closed due to the pandemic and has changed owners twice, according to the filing.
Ten witnesses have been deposed in the case, according to the filing, but only three were able to testify about the Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee’s payment of the Loews Madison invoice, according to the filing.
“These witnesses gave inconsistent accounts of the purpose of the contract and why the PIC agreed to pay it, and none of the witnesses gave a complete or accurate account of the circumstances surrounding the invoice,” the attorney general’s office wrote in the filing.
Hoping the Trump family & Organization get severely RICO’d. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Trump properties converted into public housing for the homeless?