Posted on 08/06/2020 7:50:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
New York State Attorney General Letitia James will make a “major national announcement” today.
The NY AG released a statement saying she’ll speak from her office at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, but offered no other details.
Some reports suggest James’ announcement will be related to New York state investigations into President Donald Trump’s businesses. The New York Times reported Wednesday that Deutsche Bank has turned over Trump’s financial records after the Manhattan District Attorney’s office issued a subpoena last year.
The Daily Beast reports the documents may show evidence of fraud, widening the probe into hush money payments made to women who said they had affairs with Trump. The president’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified last year that Trump inflated his net worth by about $4 billion in a loan application to Deutsche Bank for a 2014 bid on the Buffalo Bills.
AG James also subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for records related to Trump last year following Cohen’s testimony, according to the Associated Press.
Deutsche Bank, which was also subpoenaed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, has lent the Trump Organization more than $2 billion since the 1990s. Trump reportedly owed as much as $300 million to the German bank over deals before his election in 2016, including for a hotel in Washington, D.C.
Manhattan District Attorney District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said Monday he was seeking Trump’s tax returns going back eight years, citing public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.” Trump’s lawyers last month said the grand jury subpoena for the tax returns was issued in bad faith and amounted to harassment of the president.
Trump said Monday that the DA’s investigation is a ”continuation of the witch hunt.”
“They failed with Mueller,” he told reporters at the White House. “They failed with everything. They failed with Congress. They failed at every stage of the game. This has been going on for three and a half, four years.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law last year preventing the president from issuing pardons for state crimes in New York. Supporters said New York’s broad double jeopardy law didn’t explicitly give state prosecutors a green light to bring charges when a defendant has received a federal pardon, ensuring state investigations into Trump and his associates would not be derailed by a presidential pardon.
NO PRESIDENT CAN PARDON STATE CRIME. IT'S IN THE CONSTITUTION...................
They really hate this guy. ;)
Silly boy. You think Andrew Cuomo has ever read the Constitution?
It wouldn’t matter if it was someone else besides Trump. They would be just as vicious, as long as there was a (R) after their name.
They are political hacks using the power of their offices to go after political opponents.
IT’S THAT SIMPLE...................
They will stop at nothing. Meanwhile our GOP elected officials are playing patsy from their swimming pools on their extended vacations.
Not unless it was in a Pop-Up Book!..................
“””It wouldn’t matter if it was someone else besides Trump. They would be just as vicious, as long as there was a (R) after their name.””””
And anyone but Trump would have curled up in a ball and let them do it and then said thank you afterwards.
My money is on an indictment of Wayne LaPierre. She has been investigating the NRA, which (stupidly) maintained its non-profit status in New York.
American “Justice” needs a major enema. It should be pretty obvious by now that many AGs are pure political actors. They have immense power to decide which of the hairball of American laws get prosecuted and which do not. The law is becoming a joke.
Its why Attorney General is such an incredibly important appointment - without a real loyalist to protect him, a President is finished. At a lower level - its also why Soros and his ilk are so actively trying to put their people in such DA positions.
Yep and it won't stop unless the voting switches to a more dramatic and permanent form.
As does the real foreign interference in our elections.
First of all there were no “hush payments” they were perfectly legal non disclosure agreements.
Second, democrats are pure evil.
Why? Bush was as much a Democrat as Clinton. Romney was in their pocket as would have McCain. No this is because Trump is who he is
A Trump business, one of hundreds, writes the value of real estate assets the way they see it, the way it’s carried on books, the way the accountants specify,
and …
the assets are used in seeking a loan to buy a professional sports team.
And some say this asset valuation is a fraud because the assets might be worth less than declared.
And …
this is a high crime and misdemeanor worthy of taking down a President of the United States.
Well, we might all be arrested then. I have lost count of the number of times I have argued the value of my properties ,,,
so arrest me, I’m guilty,
guilty of arguing my worth.
Looks like those chickens are coming home to roost ..
LOL!! I wrote the author of the article and asked him how stupid he, the N Y State Legislature, and Governor Cuomo are, because President Trump knew, and they didn’t, that the U.S. Constitution says he can only pardon Federal crimes, not State and local crimes. I told him research is his friend.
He must have missed Constitutional Law 101 in law school.
Trump is done for sure now. Or not.
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