Follow the Sharpie: Prosecutors probing Donald Trump are sitting on 'tons' of documents bearing.....
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Follow the Sharpie: Prosecutors probing Donald Trump are sitting on 'tons' of documents bearing his handwriting, sources tell Insider
*Manhattan prosecutors have assembled a large cache of potentially damaging financial documents bearing Donald Trump's tell-tale Sharpie marks, sources tell Insider.
*Experts say handwriting on hard copy documents will be crucial to proving knowledge and intent.
*A court battle looms next week over still more personal documents Trump has refused to turn over.
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Nearly three years into their investigation into Donald Trump and his company, Manhattan prosecutors
have assembled a trove of potentially incriminating financial documents bearing the former president's handwritten signature, initials or other writing, Insider has learned.
The documents — marked by the bold lines of Trump's ubiquitous black Sharpie, and some in prosecutors' possession for a year or more..
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Depending on the amount of handwriting on them — a letter, say, as opposed to mere initials — such documents could be especially valuable to prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York Attorney General, which are conducting a joint criminal probe into the Trump Organization.
Handwriting signals literal, hands-on contact, making it harder for the subject of a probe to deflect personal accountability onto a company financial officer, or onto an outside accountant or assessor.
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Obviously it strengthens a case considerably when the government has documents that have been written on by the subject of an investigation," said Duncan Levin, a former prosecutor of major economic crimes who once headed the Manhattan DA's assets forfeiture bureau.
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If a jury sees someone's handwriting on a document, it does a lot to bring a document to life," added Levin.
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