The judicial fence plagues Donald Trump. The New York prosecutor, who has been investigating the family group since 2019 Trump Organization, accuses the former president and two of his children of “fraudulent” practices in tax matters for which the justice system wants to interrogate them.
In a court document of more than 100 pages and a statement released around midnight on Tuesday, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, said he had found ‘significant evidence to suggest Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization several assets falsely and fraudulently valued.
He accuses them of “incorrectly estimating the value of these assets before financial institutions to obtain economic benefits.”
James, who holds an elected office and is a member of the Democratic Party, has been investigating a possible fiscal fraud within the Trump organization, the family group of the 45th president of US (2017-2021) and their children.
According to the document, he also suspects that the Trump organization “fraudulently” inflated the value of some properties to apply for loans from banks and underestimated their value to the treasury to pay less tax.
In late December and early January, the prosecutor summoned the former president and his son to testify under oath. Donal Jr and his daughter Ivanka. But the Trump family did not respond to the subpoenas and resorted to all sorts of atrocities to avoid the subpoenas and delay the investigation.
A spokesman for Donald Trump, Liz Harrington, said on Twitter on Wednesday that “(Letitia James)’s accusations are unfounded and will be fought.” One of his lawyers Alina Habba, refuted in a statement passed to AFP the “tangible evidence” handled by the prosecutor.
“Threat to democracy”
The Trump family has been accusing the prosecutor for months of having “political” motivations in the case, describing her investigation as a “threat to our democracy.”
But according to extracts from the court document attached to the New York Supreme Court, Donald Trump “ultimately had authority over a wide range of Trump organizational behaviors involving misrepresentations to counterparties, including financial institutions and the Internal Revenue Service.”
As for her daughter Ivanka, “until January 2017, Mrs. Trump was a primary contact for the Trump organization’s largest lender,” Deutsche Bank. In connection with this work, Mrs. Trump causes misleading financial statements to be filed Deutsche Bank and the federal government, ”reads the court document in the case.
Also since “2017 Donald Trump Junior had authority over numerous documents containing misleading asset estimates, “in particular, a penthouse located on the Trump Tower, which in the statement was three times its actual size and whose price was inflated by $ 200 million.
chess game
In this game of chess with the Trumps, the prosecutor repeated on Tuesday night that the civil justice of New york “will not stop this investigation” and that “no one is above the law”.
Eric Trump, another son of the Republican billionaire and vice president of the Trump organization, was questioned by the prosecution in October 2020.
Donald Trump is also the subject of other investigations in the United States.
In Washington, he is trying to prevent a legislative inquiry into the January 6 attack by his supporters on Capitol Hill, home of Congress. US in Washington, access to the White House records related to that day.
The Trump organization is also being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney for possible financial crimes and insurance fraud.
In July last year, the Trump organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded not guilty in a New York court to 15 charges of tax fraud and evasion.
His trial is expected to begin in the middle of this year.
Trump was also questioned for more than four hours in October on October 18 as part of a lawsuit by a group of protesters who claimed his security guards assaulted them six years ago.
He also fights to prevent years of his tax returns from being passed on to prosecutors.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx