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The state attorney, who until now had a civil case open, joins her efforts with the Manhattan prosecutor
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The eyes of the Justice intensify their scrutiny of the negocios de Donald Trump. This Tuesday the office of the New York State Attorney General Letitia James, announced that its investigation of suspicious tax and banking activities of the Trump Organization has ceased to be purely civil to also include a component penal, in which the office will join the case already opened by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.
The step was already communicated by letter in late April to Trump’s lawyers, according to the prosecution, but the former president has assured that he has learned through “leaks to the press” in a long statement, where he has tried to discredit the investigations of James and Vance, both Democrats, assuring that they are corrupt “searches“and a” continuation of the Witch hunt“politics of which he claims to be a victim.
Under the lens of the authorities is if Trump he inflated the value of his properties to receive loans while heor reduced to achieve tax benefits. Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, opened his criminal case in 2018, after it was revealed that Michael Cohen, who was Trump’s personal attorney, had paid months before the 2016 presidential election to silence two women that they claimed to have had sexual intercourse with the real estate mogul. After many legal battles, Vance got a green light from the Supreme Court in 2020 to access banking and accounting documents, including eight years of tax returns personal and corporate Trump.
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Now James’s state office, which opened its civil investigation in 2019 after Cohen complained in testimony to the Congress accounting and tax manipulations, he will add two of his prosecutors to the work of Vance’s office. At the same time, the state prosecutor keeps the civil case open.
Trump also has another open criminal case in Georgia, there for trying to reverse the results of the last elections in the state.
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