Manhattan DA Investigating Trump For Bank, Wire Fraud
A Manhattan prosecutor’s investigation into President Trump and his family company is bigger than realized. Until Monday, it was widely believed that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance was looking only at hush-money payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign, reports the New York Times. But in a court filing, Vance suggested he was also looking into allegations of bank and insurance fraud.
This came to light amid a fight to obtain eight years of Trump’s tax returns. Vance told a judge Monday that he was justified in demanding them, citing public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization,” per the AP.
Trump’s lawyers last month said the grand jury subpoena for the tax returns was issued in bad faith and amounted to harassment of the president.
In their response, Monday, attorneys for Vance said Trump’s arguments that the subpoena was too broad stemmed from “the false premise” that the probe was limited to the hush-money payments. “This Court is already aware that this assertion is fatally undermined by undisputed information in the public record,” Vance’s lawyers wrote.
They said public reporting demonstrates that at the time the subpoena was issued “there were public allegations of possible criminal activity at Plaintiff’s New York County-based Trump Organization dating back over a decade.”
The lawyers urged Judge Victor Marrero to swiftly reject Trump’s arguments, saying the baseless claims were threatening the investigation. Marrero, who ruled against Trump last year, has scheduled arguments to be fully submitted by mid-August.
Edited via Newser.
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Vance had the chance years ago to do this but when Trump and his family donated to his campaigns he choked. Now in an election year for him he’s gung ho about investigating and prosecuting due to the hate everyone has for Trump. Guess it’s a good thing but it should have been done years ago and we wouldn’t have this ass as president.