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StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:34 PM Aug 2020

BREAKING: New York attorney general is all up in Eric Trump's face

She is ALL over the whole Trump family ...

The New York Attorney General is investigating President Trump’s private business for a allegedly misleading lenders by inflating the value of its assets, the attorney general’s office said Monday in a legal filing.

In the filing, signed by a deputy to Attorney General Letitia James, the attorney general’s office said it is investigating Trump’s use of “Statements of Financial Condition” — documents Trump sent to lenders, summarizing his assets and debts.

The filing asks a New York state judge to compel the Trump Organization to provide information it has been withholding from investigators — including a subpoena seeking an interview with the president’s son Eric.

The attorney general’s office said began investigating after Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, told Congress in February 2019 that Trump had used these statements to inflate his net worth to lenders.

The filing said that Eric Trump had been scheduled to be interviewed in the investigation in late July, but abruptly canceled that interview. The filing says that Eric Trump is now refusing to be interviewed, with Eric Trump’s lawyers saying “we cannot allow the requested interview to go forward … pursuant to those rights afforded to every individual under the Constitution.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-ag-trump-organization-lawsuit/2020/08/24/882c03a8-e60e-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html

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BREAKING: New York attorney general is all up in Eric Trump's face (Original Post) StarfishSaver Aug 2020 OP
I'm confused...are there more than one.. stillcool Aug 2020 #1
The headline is misleading StarfishSaver Aug 2020 #3
Ah..thank you! stillcool Aug 2020 #4
Hmm. About the only way Trump can disprove "inflating his assets", is by releasing his tax returns. Aristus Aug 2020 #2
Especially in the gums Blue Owl Aug 2020 #5
Kid Gingivitis is living on the edge. TheCowsCameHome Aug 2020 #6
 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
3. The headline is misleading
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:53 PM
Aug 2020

She didn't file a new lawsuit - she's asking the court to order Eric and the organization to cooperate in her investigation.

Aristus

(66,349 posts)
2. Hmm. About the only way Trump can disprove "inflating his assets", is by releasing his tax returns.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:51 PM
Aug 2020

Still don't see him doing that, though...

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