Russia Investigation Could Reveal Trumps Tax Returns
https://politicalwire.com/2017/05/31/russia-investigation-reveal-trumps-tax-returns/
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Politico: The president and his beleaguered White House staff have given no outward sign that they have thought about the prospect yet. But in interviews, veteran federal prosecutors and legal scholars said that Mueller, who began his investigation only last week, has clear-cut authority to obtain the presidents tax returnsperhaps the most sensitive and sought-after government documents since the Pentagon Papersfrom the IRS if Mueller suspects they might contain evidence of a crime.
And short of firing Mueller and shutting down his investigation, Trumpwho is the first president in 40 years to refuse to make his tax returns public, despite once promising to do so would have almost no way of stopping him. In fact, the prosecutors said, the president and his lawyers would not necessarily even know that Mueller had obtained them.
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