NYAG Letitia James isn't playing around when it comes to Trump Org. financial docs
NYAG Letitia James ain't playing when it comes to Trump. Her investigation into his Trump Organization's financial affairs has him and his family shaking in their shorts with a new court order by a New York state judge on Friday gives Donald Trump’s company an ultimatum: Either turn over all the documents to comply with subpoenas from the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG), or you’ll have to pay for a third party to do it for you.
The Trump Organization has already agreed that if the NYAG believes the company has not fully complied with its requests, the business will hire a third party firm to go through electronic records belonging to its top executives, including ex-President Donald Trump and his family. The prosecutors have long complained Trump has not fully complied with the AG office’s demands for key documents in its ongoing investigation.
“For more than a year now, the Trump Organization has failed to adequately respond to our subpoenas, hiding behind procedural delays and excuses. Once again, the court has ordered that the Trump Organization must turn over the information and documents we are seeking, otherwise face an independent third-party that will ensure that takes place. Our work will continue undeterred because no one is above the law,” Attorney General James said in the statement.
Those docs, which Trump is holding back, include those financial records on himself, his two older sons, his eldest daughter, his personal assistant, and those already involved in in the DA and AG criminal investigation - including longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, who was indicted in July by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance on charges of tax fraud.
The agreement was entered on September 3, but was sealed at the time. The judge opened the sealed filing yesterday, under requests from legal news outlet Law360. The order gives the Trump Organization to choose the firm, but AG James has the right for final approval.