The general prosecutor, Letitia James, believes that the Trump Organization, which manages buildings, hotels and golf courses, has been guilty of tax fraud by undervaluating the value of some of her property in order to obtain tax reductions.
Le Monde with AFP and reuters
It is an uncompromising indictment against Donald Trump and his children that the New York State General Prosecutor said Letitia James, Wednesday, September 21, after having conducted an investigation into the tax practices of her group , the Trump Organization.
During a press conference , M me james announced window Civil proceedings with a Manhattan court against the former president and his children Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump. “We include legal action against Donald Trump for having violated the law (…) in order to generate profits for himself, his family and his business,” said prosecutor after an investigation of more than Three years and one month after the hearing of the former republican president by his services in New York.
She said that she was asking for $ 250 million in repairs on behalf of New York State and prohibitions to direct companies for Donald Trump, Donald Trump JR, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump. “Democrats are continuing their political opponents!” Quickly reacted the spokesperson for Donald Trump, Liz Harrington, on Truth Social, the ultra-right social network launched by Donald Trump in February.
Testimony of His former lawyer
The civil investigation against the family group Trump Organization had been opened following the explosive testimony in March 2019 at the Congress, in Washington, of Michael Cohen, one of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyers. According to M me james, the investigations made it possible to provide proof that the Trump Organization, which manages buildings, hotels and golf courses, was guilty of tax fraud by undervaluating the value of some of his property in order to obtain tax reductions.
These proceedings are added to several already underway investigations targeting Donald Trump, one of which on his presidential archives which led to a spectacular search of the FBI, on August 8, in his residence Mar-A-Lago, Florida in Florida . The former president denies any embezzlement and denounces a “witch hunt”. The Trump Organization judges unfounded accusations of the prosecutor, which is a democrat.
The billionaire, who openly plans to imagine the presidential election of 2024, is also targeted by surveys on his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election lost against Joe Biden and his role in the assault of his supporters against the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He is currently prosecuted criminally in any of these other cases.