DONALD TRUMP, CHILDREN MUST TESTIFY IN INVESTIGATION OF BUSINESS PRACTICES: NY JUDGE

Fri 18 February 2022:

Former US President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in a New York civil probe into his business practices, according to a New York state judge.

Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday ordered Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr, to comply with subpoenas issued in December by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is probing Trump’s real estate development group.

“In the final analysis, a State Attorney General commences investigating a business entity, uncovers copious evidence of possible financial fraud, and wants to question, under oath, several of the entities’ principals, including its namesake. She has the clear right to do so,” Engoron wrote in his decision.

“Upon the foregoing documents, it is hereby ordered that the motion by respondents Donald J. Trump, Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr. to quash subpoenas issued by the petitioner is denied, and petitioner’s cross-motion to compel is granted,” Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in his ruling.

New York Attorney General Letitia James and her office have subpoenaed to question Trump and his two adult children following investigations into whether the Trump Organization, which represents the family’s business interests, had illegally inflated the value of its assets to obtain loans beyond merit.

In a statement on Tuesday, Trump railed against what he called a “sham investigation of a great company that has done a spectacular job for New York and beyond”. Trump called it a racially motivated “continuation of a Witch Hunt the likes of which has never been seen in this Country before”; Both James and Bragg are Black.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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