The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, summoned two of the children of the former president of EE.UU. Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr, as part of the fraud investigations he is conducting.
The petition was released this Monday through a court document presented by the judge in the case in which a schedule is set out to manage a dispute that has arisen over the summons of both the ex-president and his children.
According to a source consulted by the New York Times, the summons of James of two of Trump’s children was presented on December 1, against which motions have been presented this Monday to prevent the interrogations from being carried out, he points out. a statement from the attorney general’s office.
“For more than two years, members of the Trump family and the Trump Organization have constantly sought to delay or impede our investigations into Trump and the Trump Organization, but despite their names, they have to play by the same rules as everyone else.” James asserted in the text, adding that these “tactics” will not stop the investigations.
It emerged last month that the attorney general had requested to question the former president under oath, but until now it was not known that James ‘office, which is conducting a civil investigation into the activities of the Trumps’ real estate company for at least minus three years, I was also looking to interview Ivanka and Donald Jr.
A third son of Trump, Eric Trump, was already interrogated in October 2020 for the same case, shortly before the presidential elections that his father lost.
Both Eric, Donald Jr and Ivanka have been heavily involved in their father’s company, the Trump Organization, which each of them joined shortly after finishing college.
When Trump was named president of the United States in January 2017, he delegated control of the company to Donald Jr and Eric, as well as to the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
James’ investigations try to determine if Trump’s company inflated the value of its assets to be able to obtain bank loans and in parallel reduced that same value with the intention of paying less taxes.
The investigation, however, is civil, so in any case it could not bring criminal charges against the Trumps.
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