Letitia James has requested that the 45th President of the United States come and give his testimony in his New York office on January 7, as part of a civil investigation into alleged tax crimes by the Trump Organization
New York State Attorney Letitia James wants former US President Donald Trump to testify in his investigation into possible tax fraud by the family group Trump Organization, the Washington Post said Thursday, December 9.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, the daily specifies that Letitia James asked that the 45e President of the United States is coming to give his testimony in his New York office on January 7, as part of a civil investigation into alleged tax crimes by the Trump Organization. When questioned, the spokesperson for the prosecutor, Fabien Levy, refrained from any comment at this stage.
What magnitude?
1is Last July, Allen Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump Organization and loyal to Donald Trump’s faithful, pleaded not guilty to tax evasion in a Manhattan court.
Allen Weisselberg is notably accused of having deliberately concealed from the tax authorities, between 2005 and 2021, some $ 1.7 million in benefits in kind that he received from the Trump Organization, which would have avoided paying nearly a million dollars in federal and local taxes. He is also accused of having wrongly claimed not to be a resident of New York City, to avoid taxes. The Trump Organization is accused of helping to cover up these benefits.
According to the sources of the “Washington Post”, Letitia James wonders about the extent of the fraud, which would have “spread to the Trump Organization”. The former Republican president, who is not personally accused in this investigation, denounced in July a political “indictment” and a “witch hunt”.
If he refused to come and testify, Letitia James could, according to the “Washington Post”, force him to appear in court to give his testimony. This is what happened in October 2020 to force Eric Trump – one of Donald Trump’s sons and one of the leaders of the Trump Organization – to come and testify in the same investigation.
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