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Mr. Trump was ordered on April 25 by the New York Supreme Court to pay $10,000 a day as long as he refused to provide accounting and tax documents as part of a civil investigation by the Attorney General of the United States. State, Letitia James, against the Trump Organization family group.
“On May 19, Donald Trump paid $110,000 for the Attorney General’s services,” a spokesperson for Democratic Party magistrate James James said in an email on Friday.
Letitia James and the Republican billionaire have been engaged in a fierce procedural battle for months.
On February 17, the prosecutor had obtained that a New York judge order Mr. Trump and his children Donald Jr. and Ivanka to testify under oath in the context of this investigation, where she suspects “fraudulent” tax practices.
A decision against which the Trumps, who accuse Ms. James of “political witch hunt”, have appealed.
But the New York justice had also demanded accounting and tax documents from the Trump Organization before March 31. Faced with Donald Trump’s refusal, Letitia James had therefore obtained on April 25 that he be sentenced for “obstructing”.
On May 6, however, the New York judge had suspended the counting of fine days and decided that Mr. Trump would have until Friday May 20 to pay for the period April 25 – May 6, or 110,000 for 11 days.
What he did on Thursday.
According to James’ spokesperson, the Trump camp also had until Friday to submit “sworn statements” relating to the Trump Organization’s request for accounting and tax records. These documents were indeed collected and produced by a third-party firm on Thursday, according to the same source.
The judge must now decide whether the Trump camp has met all the demands.
Ms James suspects the Trump Organization of having “fraudulently” overstated the value of real estate properties when applying for bank loans and of having understated them with the taxman to pay less tax.
Donald Trump is also facing a criminal investigation by the Manhattan prosecutor: the Trump Organization and its financial director Allen Weisselberg have been charged with tax evasion. They have pleaded not guilty and the trial is due to begin this year.
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