Democrat Letitia James, inspector general of New York, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against former US President Donald Trump and three of his sons –Donald, Eric and Ivanka– for alleged tax crimes within the Trump Organization. As detailed by James in a 200+ page lawsuit, the former president and his sons they would be involved in an expansive fraudwhich lasted more than a decade and affected all levels of the Organization, and from which Trump himself profited.
“These acts of fraud and misrepresentation (…) have been committed by the top management of the Trump Organization as part of a joint effort for each annual (tax) declaration and have been approved at the highest levels of the Trump Organizationincluding Trump himself, “the brief reads. James believes Trump and the other defendants may have violated state and criminal lawswith whom he referred the case to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Tax Service, according to the CNN television network.
The origin of the question dates back to March 2019, as former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen’s statement to the US Congress raised questions about the company’s “potentially fraudulent financial statement.” Trump, for his part, has repeatedly criticized the investigation, which he considers a “crusade” against him, and even called James a “renegade prosecutor” in charge of a “vindictive and selfish” case..
new inventory
The FBI located in August in the mansion of former US President Donald Trump more than 10,000 documents and images of the Government that did not bear any type of mark that were classified, according to the Justice Department. The federal executive released a new inventory this Friday that provides more information on a record in which FBI agents found secret documents that, in theory, should not be in Trump’s possession.
The list also confirmed the presence at the Mar-a-Lago (Florida) home of more than 40 empty folders that had the label of being classified. It is unknown what its content was and where it is today, according to NBC News. The authorities did not alert the possible loss of secret information and, among the things that need to be determined now, is whether at any time the national security of the United States could be in jeopardy.
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