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Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorneys investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office. Its like night and day, says one. According to another, They mean business.
By Jane Mayer
March 12, 2021
On February 22nd, in an office in White Plains, two lawyers handed over a hard drive to a Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, who, along with two investigators, had driven up from New York City in a heavy snowstorm. Although the exchange didnt look momentous, it set in motion the next phase of one of the most significant legal showdowns in American history. Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered former President Donald Trump to comply with a subpoena for nearly a decades worth of private financial records, including his tax returns. The subpoena had been issued by Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney, who is leading the first, and larger, of two known probes into potential criminal misconduct by Trump. The second was opened, last month, by a county prosecutor in Georgia, who is investigating Trumps efforts to undermine that states election results.
Vance is a famously low-key prosecutor, but he has been waging a ferocious battle. His subpoena required Trumps accounting firm, Mazars U.S.A., to turn over millions of pages of personal and corporate records, dating from 2011 to 2019, that Trump had withheld from prosecutors and the public. Before Trump was elected, in 2016, he promised to release his tax records, as every other modern President has done, and he repeated that promise after taking office. Instead, he went to extraordinary lengths to hide the documents. The subpoena will finally give legal authorities a clear look at the former Presidents opaque business empire, helping them to determine whether he committed any financial crimes. After Vances victory at the Supreme Court, he released a typically buttoned-up statement: The work continues.
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MisterNiceKitty
(422 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)he has sluffed off for 12 years especially when it comes to rich people like the Trump (who he let off once already), Strauss-Kahn and, for a long time Weinstein.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)walkingman
(7,615 posts)Azathoth
(4,608 posts)They should be preparing indictments as well.
Trump should be facing grand juries at multiple levels in multiple jurisdictions. This shouldn't all be resting on the shoulders of the Manhattan DA.