New York DA Suggests Trump Under Criminal Investigation

By Jeralyn, Section Trump Administration
Posted on Mon Aug 03, 2020 at 02:15:25 PM EST
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On the court case over the release of Trump's tax returns, the New York Times reports today:

The Manhattan district attorney’s office suggested on Monday that it has been investigating President Trump and his company for possible bank and insurance fraud, a significantly broader inquiry than the prosecutors have acknowledged in the past.

The office of the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., made the disclosure in a new federal court filing arguing Mr. Trump’s accountants should have to comply with its subpoena seeking eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns.

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So what crimes are they investigating? Whether he "illegally inflated his net worth and the value of his properties to lenders and insurers."

The DA's office claims Trump's lawyers are trying to stall the investigation to run out the statute of limitations. His lawyers say they just want "due process".

I wonder if this is why he's trying to delay the election and stay in the Oval Office as long as he can. His "immunity" (which is only based on DOJ policy, which may or may not be legally correct) runs out when he leaves office.

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If the new Vanity Fair (5.00 / 2) (#19)
by jondee on Mon Aug 03, 2020 at 08:40:27 PM EST

story about Jared's scrapped national testing program is true, forget about November, the whole lot of them should be dragged bodily out of the Whitehouse right now.

Just for starters.

: The crime (none / 0) (#22)
by Ga6thDem on Tue Aug 04, 2020 at 05:11:44 AM EST

reporter at the WaPo said that Trump, Jared et al can be charged with negligent homicide.

I don't think it is completely clear (none / 0) (#1)
by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 03, 2020 at 02:37:11 PM EST

His "immunity" even applies to state charges. He says it does but I'm not sure anyone knows. Or so I hear and read.

Is that DOJ policy thing just for federal charges? Who knows? Where's Peter?

The Supreme Court ruled a month ago (5.00 / 1) (#17)
by Peter G on Mon Aug 03, 2020 at 06:37:47 PM EST

in Trump v. Vance (and Mazars LLC and Deutsche Bank), by 7-2 vote, that the DOJ theory of presidential immunity from state criminal investigation is invalid. They did not decide whether a President is immune, while in office, from state criminal indictment. Frankly, if that question were actually to ripen before January 20, 2021, I would expect the Supreme Court to say that the President is immune, as a state indictment would imply the authority of a local court or other state or county agency to place the President in some form of custody, which in turn would be inconsistent with exercising the authority conferred on the President by Article II of the U.S. Constitution. This, of course, is a matter of constitutional principle, and has nothing to do with the (in)competence or derelictions of duty of any particular occupant of that office.


: I have a question (none / 0) (#18)
by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 03, 2020 at 08:18:09 PM EST

So, the subpoena is for Mazars, right? Which is an audit and accounting firm according to google. And they are seeking all these documents about Trumps financial history which, one would guess, Mazars played a significant role in, right?
My question is, I guess, is there also legal exposure for Mazars if they helped Trump or enabled Trump in committing tax and bank fraud? Or can th