Quote (said_aouita @ Feb 16 2022 10:02am)
Yes, it does. This investigation has been on going long before he became POTUS. Please, try to keep up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_investigations_of_The_Trump_OrganizationQuote
In August 2018, Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Cyrus Vance Jr. was reported to be considering criminal charges against the organization and two of its senior executives for their accounting of then-Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen's hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.[9] In August 2019, Vance subpoenaed Mazars for Trump's tax returns.[10] In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump's tax records could be released to prosecutors,[11] producing millions of pages of documents, reportedly including Trump's tax returns from January 2011 to August 2019.[12]
In October 2018, The New York Times published a lengthy exposé concerning Donald Trump's inheritance from his parents, Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. It includes detailed analyses of Trump family financial records.[a] The article describes an alleged tax fraud scheme conducted by Trump and his siblings related to their joint inheritance of their parents's real estate holdings, effectively evading over $500 million in gift and estate taxes. The alleged schemes involved siphoning money from the companies to the children throughout their lives and understating the value of transferred properties.[13]The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced on the day of the exposé's publication that it would review the allegations.[17][18] In mid-2021, Mary L. Trump (a primary source for the exposé) elaborated on how the organization used a shell corporation to siphon money, devaluing Fred Trump's "core business" to $30 million at the time of his death.[19]
Michael Cohen testified to Congress in February 2019 that Trump "inflated [the organization's] total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes."[20] Following Cohen's testimony, the New York State Department of Financial Services issued a subpoena to Aon, the organization's longtime insurance broker.[21] The office of New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James began investigating the organization in March 2019.[22] By September of that year, the organization was under federal investigation by the Southern District of New York regarding inflated insurance claims allegations.[23]
By December 2019, the office of New York AG Letitia James had subpoenaed the Trump Organization for some of its records, which the company subsequently failed to provide. On September 2, 2021, a New York judge ordered the organization to submit a report explaining exactly what it was doing to comply with the subpoena. If this request was not met by October 15, an electronic discovery firm was to be commissioned to review the company's records.[24]
In August 2020, the New York AG disclosed in a court filing that it was conducting a civil investigation of the organization for the asset inflation allegation, asking a court to compel the organization to provide information it had been withholding. The filing also noted that Eric Trump had resisted a subpoena and abruptly canceled an interview scheduled for the previous month.[25] The Manhattan DA, which had been seeking Donald Trump's tax returns, suggested in an August 2020 federal court filing that the organization was under investigation for bank and insurance fraud.[26] Eric Trump was deposed on October 5[27][c] and reportedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination over 500 times.[30] The New York Times reported in November 2020 that both investigators had recently issued subpoenas to the organization regarding tax deductions on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which were paid to Ivanka Trump.[31]