The Supreme Court rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to keep tax returns requested in an investigation following the New York City prosecutor’s office secret for several years.
The judges offered no explanation for rejecting the petition of Trump’s lawyers, who asked to remain a grand jury subpoena and conduct a criminal investigation, one of the most serious legal threats in several courtroom challenges facing Trump. faced. There were no dissenting opinions in the ruling.
Trump must hand over his financial records to the Southern District district attorney of the New York Attorney General’s Office led by Vance, who is investigating whether the Trump organization falsified corporate records to hide clandestine payments in exchange for two wives’ silence , including the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Vance had frozen tax filing subpoenas until the Supreme Court made a decision on the Trump team’s petition.
The New York attorney briefly responded to the announcement on his official Twitter account, “Work continues,” suggesting that the subpoenas will be reactivated, something that may open another front in the legal battle with the representatives of Trump.
The scope of the decision allowing the New York prosecutor’s office to access Trump’s tax returns
On that occasion, the highest court rejected Trump’s lawyers’ argument against the New York prosecutor’s office that the president cannot be investigated under any circumstances while in the White House by 7-2 votes, a majority including the two Conservative justices appointed by Trump: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
The New York prosecutor has been trying to track down Trump’s tax returns since 2019, when a grand jury subpoenaed Mazars USA accounting firm that worked for the Trump Organization to file him eight years of tax returns.
The exact scope of Vance’s investigation is not yet known in detail, but it is believed to be centered on former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s allegations that the mogul’s company manipulated real estate values for its state taxes and alleged U.S. fraud. to reduce insurance, allegations that the organization of the ex-president denies.
