- Either that or one or both are dragging their feet
- In the meantime Dem prosecutors inflame the political situation
Manhattan Prosecutor Seeking Trump Taxes Cites ‘Possibly Extensive and Protracted Criminal Conduct’ Wall Street Journal, 8/4/2020
“Possibly?”
MEANWHILE, BILL BARR AND JOHN DURHAM SHUFFLE SLOWLY THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S ENORMOUS AND FAR-REACHING CRIMINAL EFFORTS AGAINST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND ADMINISTRATION
They Don’t Want To Appear “Political”
Barr seems oblivious to the highly “inferior” quality of ‘evidence’ of Democrats versus what is already known (and proven) about Obama-Biden wrongdoing…
And completely unaware that actions like Democrat Vance in New York could cost Trump reelection…and with it, the burial of any accountability by Obama’s minion’s for their criminality! All Durham’s evidence will vanish!
District attorney’s office points to public reports of alleged fraudulent financial activities by Trump Organization; White House says effort is part of ‘witch hunt’
“Public reports”???
Certainly doesn’t appear “political”! Democrats would never stoop to that, or advantageous timing dlh
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said it is justified in seeking financial documents from President Trump and his company as part of a complex investigation into alleged insurance and bank fraud by the Trump Organization and its officers.
In a new legal filing Monday, District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. urged a federal court to allow the office to move forward with its investigation of “possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization” and to dismiss Mr. Trump’s most recent challenge to its subpoena, requesting eight years of records from his accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP.
“This is a continuation of the worst witch hunt in American history,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday.
The legal battle over Mr. Trump’s tax records dates back to August 2019, when the Manhattan district attorney’s office first subpoenaed Mazars. Mr. Trump sued to block the subpoena, arguing that a sitting president couldn’t be criminally investigated.
Last month, the Supreme Court rejected the president’s claims of immunity from state-level grand jury investigations. “In our judicial system, ‘the public has a right to every man’s evidence,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. “Since the earliest days of the Republic, ‘every man’ has included the President of the United States.”
Mr. Trump’s lawyers vowed to continue fighting the subpoena with new arguments. They filed an amended complaint in Manhattan federal court last week, calling the prosecutor’s subpoena overbroadand issued in bad faith
Mr. Vance on Monday said that argument “rests on the false premise that the grand jury’s investigation is limited to so-called ‘hush-money’ payments made by Michael Cohen on behalf of [Mr. Trump] in 2016.”
“The Mazars Subpoena is no different from many grand jury subpoenas routinely issued in white-collar crime investigations, which are typically dependent on financial and corporate records,” Mr. Vance said.
Court documents cited articles by The Wall Street Journal, which exposed an alleged 2016 payment to Stephanie Clifford, the former adult-film star known professionally as Stormy Daniels who claimed she had an affair with Mr. Trump, and by the Washington Post, which reported other accusations of fraudulent financial activities, including allegations the president inflated his net worth and property valuations to lenders and investors
The president has denied the affair with Ms. Clifford and that he knew about the payments when they were made.
Mr. Trump has previously said his net worth fluctuates. “It goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feeling,” he told lawyers in a 2007 deposition.
