“Donald Trump must pay $10,000 a day for every day he continues to defy the court order to deliver documents to my office,” said the attorney general, who has been investigating for years into possible fraud in the tax practices of the Trump Organization.
On February 17, Letitia James obtained a New York judge to order the Republican billionaire and his children Donald Jr. and Ivanka to testify under oath in the context of this investigation. A decision against which the Trumps appealed.
An investigation targeting the Trump Organization
But the court had also requested before March 31 a whole series of accounting and tax documents on the Trump Organization. Faced with the lack of response, Letitia James had again retaliated before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, asking that he be held responsible for “obstruction for his refusal to comply with a court order “.
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