NEW YORK — The New York prosecutors who are seeking President Donald Trump’s tax records have also subpoenaed his longtime lender, a sign that their criminal investigation into Trump’s business practices is more wide-ranging than previously known.
Because of its longstanding and multifaceted relationship with Trump, Deutsche Bank has been a frequent target of regulators and lawmakers digging into the president’s opaque finances. But the subpoena from the office of the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., appears to be the first instance of a criminal inquiry involving Trump and his dealings with the German bank, which lent him and his company more than $2 billion over the past two decades.
The district attorney’s office has spent the past year trying to obtain Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, and the Supreme Court last month upheld prosecutors’ rights to seek the documents. But legal wrangling continues, and Vance’s office has said that its investigation will be hamstrung unless prosecutors get the tax returns.
Last month, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to congressional investigations into the president’s finances when it ordered lower courts to reconsider whether Deutsche Bank and Mazars USA, Trump’s accounting firm, had to comply with congressional subpoenas seeking his records. The ruling meant that the subpoenas would not be enforced until after the presidential election in November, if at all.
The district attorney’s investigation has been proceeding in fits and starts since it began in the summer of 2018. Almost immediately, Vance paused the inquiry at the request of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, which had prosecuted Cohen and was investigating whether others at the Trump Organization had committed crimes in the course of arranging the hush-money payments.
And? If Trump defrauded the bank the bank would know and would file charges. Just more overreach from people who want Trump gone.
RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS STILL NOT PUBLIC.
So what...show me the beef.
Anything to distract from the DNC's pedophile ring
They need to look into the stimulus package. 9.1 million for each American. But nobody wants to take on the government
Now do the Clinton Foundation.
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