The Manhattan District Attorney’s office obtained the tax returns it had been asking for from Donald Trump for months after the Supreme Court declined to study a case to block the subpoenas against the former president’s accountants.
A spokesman for prosecution Cyrus Vance confirmed that the documents were received on Monday, the day the Supreme Court announced it would not consider the case, in what was the second time the highest court ruled against Trump’s aspirations.
According to reports from CNN, the first outlet to report on the subject, prosecutors have millions of pages of tax return and other financial documents, ranging from January 2011 to August 2019, implying two years that included Trump in the White House.
The papers were provided by the accounting firm Mazars USA which was subpoenaed by Vance’s office in 2019 to hand over the information as part of a grand jury investigation into the finances of Trump’s businesses.
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The prosecution began investigating Trump’s finances in the case of the payments to two women (Stomy Daniels and Karen McDougall) during the 2016 presidential campaign that they claim had a relationship with the then-tycoon. But prosecutors say they have broadened the focus and are inquiring about possible tax or financial fraud committed by the Trump organization.
Since the trial began, Trump’s attorneys first argued that he enjoyed absolute immunity from any investigation (an argument overturned by the Supreme Court) and later that the prosecution was engaged in an ‘information search’ operation to get your client. continue. .
In 2018, his former attorney Michael Cohen was jailed after being found guilty of several counts of tax and bank fraud, as well as violation of election campaign laws, in managing payment for Daniels on the direct orders of Trump.
Trump has not yet been charged with any crime. It is the job of the grand jury to determine whether the evidence prosecutors have is sufficient to open a case against you in court.
