On Monday, New York attorney general Letitia James subpoenaed two of former President Trump’s children over the state’s investigation into their father’s real estate business. James subpoenaed Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. in an attempt to find out if Trump’s business manipulated the value of assets for tax purposes.
Bloomberg reports:
Donald Trump’s testimony was sought earlier by New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of the civil investigation, and all three Trumps are expected to file motions to quash the subpoenas in the coming weeks, according to a filing Monday in New York state court in Manhattan.
Trump last month sued James in an effort to block the probe, accusing her of investigating his Manhattan-based real-estate company for political purposes. James, who suspended her run for governor of New York in December, had sought his testimony under oath by Jan. 7.
James began the probe in 2019 to determine if Trump’s company had been manipulating the value of key assets for tax and insurance purposes. Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen triggered the probe after he handed Congress a trove of Trump financial records and testified that his former boss “inflated his total assets when it served his purposes” and “deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes.”
Eric Trump, one of the former president’s sons and an executive vice president at the Trump Organization, was deposed by state investigators in October 2020 after fighting in court to delay the questioning.
once again ..this AG like Pelosi are crooked to the core and ignore the real issues of the DemSoComm traytors crimes
Letitia James is nothing more than a heathen lying worthless POS (N-word). No other word appropriate for her.
hello how r u
Why not investigating the Biden Family, like Hunter and his uncle all corrupt to the core.!!!
the bidens are DEEP in with the Chinese Communist party. ISNT that TREASON????? And it is all documented.!!!!
They are all lower than parasites.
They ONLY investigate Republicans
AGREE! I am so angry they keep molesting the TRUMP family! They should investigte their wn people . THEY are the CROOKS!!!! but no, they keep smearing, discrediting the family as if they were the criminals.
The ghettoization of politics
I would care less if I picked up the newspaper and saw Letitia James’ picture and listing on the obituary page. Same for Nancy Pelosi, other corrupt democrats, and their financiers.
Say your prayers daily and hope to see those corrupt dems’ names and pictures on your paper’s o^b^i^t page.
I frankly would care less if I saw L^e^t^i^t^i^a J^a^m^e^s’ picture and listing on the local paper’s o^b^i^t^u^a^r^y page. Same for other corrupt dem congress people, dem cabinet, and their corrupt financiers (i.e. S^o^r^o^s)..
The Trumps should get their assets out of NY and any other blue states and reinvest in red states where most of the country will support them.
Excellent idea!
Besides, those pathetic blue states are dying a slow painful corrupted death being led by idiot egotistical and totally imbecilic dem leaders who are only after their own self gratification! It won’t take long now because most of the blue states have little to no police depts, so CRIME HAS RAISED ITS UGLY HEAD AND IS LITERALLY EATING AWAY AT THOSE STATES! Soon we will be watching a mass exodus from those blue states like there was/is from California!
ACTUALLY, if the Blue states want to survive, eventually they will have to kick out their failed dem leaders and vote in strong Conservative leadership! This may just happen as more and more states jump the aisle and go Burning Red! Time will tell as the corruption grows and grows in the blue states!
Agreed, the Trumps need to stop any investments in states/cities owned by Democrat’s eg NY, CA, etc. Please put
your money and investments into Southern states eg TX, OK, TN, FL, GA Where it is appreciated and needed.
Vet
Ha, literal Warlocks trying to throw their own trash on the innocent. It’s these idiots in NYC have literally devalued Trump’s property as well as their own property & everyone else’s with their “covid” regulations” & their war on police. NO ONE wants to be in that hell hole. The Trumps & other property owners should sue NYC for devaluing their property!
Sue NY state and the Cuomos’ also…or get legal advice to write off the devaluation on taxes somehow..
I guess they just haven’t found any WITCHES yet, poor IDIOT demoTARD VERMIN!
Democrats are disgusting beyond belief. I would like to see them all croak. New York and California, are two states full of stupid liberals and they get what they deserve. As for Letitia James, she is one incompetent lackey who does what Andrew Cuomo orders her to do. Someone needs to tell Letitia that 1865 has passed and she is no longer a slave.
They just won’t stop while all the demo crimes including bidens are left alone!!!!
Can’t wait till midterms…..The Red River Express
Why does my comment need to be approved by the morons at TTN? Are they afraid that it might offend some liberals or are they just afraid of the truth?
Unbelievable, all over the world the left is using the same procedure. They are calling at courts people just to make them waste time and energy. And there is nobody to make them accountable.
Read Deuteronomy 19:16-21, then talk to your state legislators about enacting the principle into state law. That should make prosecutors think twice before filing dubious charges.
We need a similar law at the national level also.
You clowns at TTN need to get off your ass and approve my comment. Stop the censoring and pretending that you are looking out for everyone. The only people you look out for are the Democrat politicians.
TTN you are sickening. LET FREEDOM RING! The communists will come after you too when the time comes and then you will CRY!
You won’t make any friends among the moderators with that post. Did you use a word or phrase that went too far, such as advocating criminal violence against someone or suggesting something obscene? Preliminary screening is often done by computer algorithms; maybe the way you said whatever it was set a flag for manual review.
“Think before you speak” has a corollary, “Think twice before you click ‘Post Comment’.”
nothing to do with bad language or offensive post. Just the Rats trying to silence truth
I’m not at all familiar with the Trump famliy’s business but I very much doubt that Pres. Trump and Ivanka Trump would be foolish enough to lie and/or manipulate their assets! It seems to me that only the Trump family is hit by Subpoenas! It can’t be possible that no others have ever been Subpoenad, yet Pres is the only person who is written up for such encouters! It’s quite amazing that of all the people in America ONLY Pres Trump has ever been taken to task over such an implausable questioning! One can only say that Letitia James has overstepped her position in her attempt to dishonour Pres. Trump!
TTN censors are more worried about my comment than they are about the Democrat political party clowns in New York issuing Subpoenas to Donald Trump’s children. They don’t seem to have a problem with that. They disgust me.
Think like a good computer h^a^c^k. Break up “controversial” words or names with asterisks or other characters between the letters. Then repost!
Just put a stop to Letitia, Queen Letitia James and put a bullet in her corrupt head!
Cohen has proof of his accusations? He’s just spewing nonsense to get off the hook for his own improprieties for doing the very things he’s claiming Trump did. Letitia James should be sued for using her public office to find a crime rather than see a crime.
I can’t wait until the Republicans take over Congress and start the investigations of the Biden, Obama and Clinton crime cartels! So much evidence and it is not being used, so far!
Lettititia (correct spelling for a N.Y. Witch) is just going on a witch hunt and all that Trump’s kids have to do is take the 5th Amendment which states they will not discuss this for personal reasons.
Come on now Witchee Poo! They are his kids! Duh, they are NOT going to go against their father AND YOU, Witchee Poo, ARE GOING TO BE SITTING IN A POOL OF YOUR OWN EMBARRASSMENT WHEN THEY MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE THE FOOL!
Lettititia IS ONLY TRYING TO MAKE A NAME FOR HER BLACK SELF BUT INSTEAD IS GOING TO BE SHAMED FOR HER OBVIOUS CAREER ACTIONS!!
Soooooooop deluded Democrap!
The Chi-coms are at it again – the rot in NYS – you can smell it – Can you even image them -going after Trump with all the real criminals in NY – Schumer- AOC -Cuomo – That Bum ex-mayor DEBLASSSIO , – its disgusting mess
That old bat needs to be sued/prosecuted for abuse of office.
This is all designed to hurt President Trump if he decides to run again. All the news outlets, local and national keep talking about him, not in good light. Then, there’s the Chaney investigation on 1/6/21. This will now be on a loop until the report is released. Which, of course will be right before the midterm elections.
I’m angry! Feel powerless and really demoralized. We need to get to the polls in November and show up in droves.
“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”~ Judge Learned Hand Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934)
I don’t see how any reasonable person can make this case against the Trump family. There are perfectly legitimate reasons why the value for insurance purposes can differ from the assessed value for taxation. For example, the property may be insured for replacement value, which could be considerably more than the present market value. Or the tax assessor may have underestimated the value, or was limited by state law in the value he could place on the property. If the State of New York, or the county in which the property is located, did not declare a sufficient value for taxation, that’s on them, unless they can prove that somebody in the Trump organization deliberately made a false statement that misled the taxation authority.
If the Trumps overstated the value of the property for insurance purposes, they end up paying too much for insurance. That’s their loss, not anybody else’s.
Either way, this case is awfully close to being frivolous. Anyone who wants to run a serious campaign for Ms. James’ current position should be considering an ad using this case to show that she’s wasting valuable and scarce New York State resources on bogus make-a-name-for-herself prosecutions when there is a lot of real crime going unaddressed.
There’s also the matter of attorney-client privilege. I don’t think an attorney can legally breach that just to buy better terms in a prosecution against himself. Using privileged communications in this case may be very close to violating the Fifth Amendment. I expect the Trump family lawyers will be looking very closely at this issue should there be a trial.
New Yorks’ AG more concerned about Trump’s business dealings blatantly ignoring Cuomo’s corruption, knowingly and willing sending our seniors to their death, and sexual harassament NOT to mention that the freedom’s of New Yorkers are being violated – REALLY????
Everything and anything in New York is CROOKED AS A WITCH’s humped back, including Letitia the Chaotic Counselor!
I am not fond of any N.Y. Officials because most have lost what their purpose is all about. Obviously Letitia is a radical democrat that is intimidated by DJT, and all she can think about, dream about, or CONJURE UP IS TO DEFEAT HIS PRESENCE!
Tsk tsk Letitia! Stop hitting your head against the wall! YOU are not in DJT’s league and there are too many Americans that absolutely support his actions — no matter what a pathetic Trump hating attorney tries to do to him!