New York, United States.
A judge of the New York Supreme Court order Donald Trump’s family and businesses to hand over new documents in a civil lawsuit for possible concealment of asset value to obtain loans and tax exemptions, the newspaper reported The New York Times.
This Friday the Judge Arthur Engoron, In Manhattan, ordered the Trump Organization to hand over new documents, including communications with legal teams, to the Attorney General’s Office New York and again rejected attempts by the conglomerate to protect the confidentiality of certain papers.
The judge found that the Trump conglomerate tried to argue client-lawyer privilege in documents that did not enter into such exchanges and gave until Feb. 4 to deliver new information to investigators.
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This is the second time this magistrate has ruled in favor of the Attorney General New York, Letitia James, who is investigating you Trump it inflated the value of some properties in the state to obtain loans and at the same time devalued them to claim tax exemptions.
The investigation began in 2019 following revelations by Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen and is accompanied by a criminal case led by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, under summary secrecy.
Both lawsuits could complicate Trump’s legal sentences after he left the presidency on Jan. 20.
James investigates episodes of Trump and his family through the Trump organization, Such as the financial restructuring of a real estate and hotel project in Chicago for which Fortress Credit Corporation forgave a debt of more than $ 100 million and which should have been accounted for as income in tax returns.
He also investigates a gigantic mansion owned by the the Trump family north of New York, In Westchester County, for which they received generous tax exemptions on the grounds that this land was devoted to nature conservation, which could have been emulated in other failed development projects.
The research focuses on determining whether with the resource of natural conservation the Trump organization he claimed $ 21 million in exemptions that did not apply to him.