By Ashe O New York, Aug 10 : Although the question of whether former President Donald Trump will show up at the New York Attorney General’s office for an scheduled deposition on Wednesday, it’s quite clear that he might be in for a questioning in Manhattan by lawyers linked to the office of AG Letitia James, due to accusations of falsely stating the value of property to obtain government tax breaks as well as bank loans.
Trump is scheduled to appear for his long-awaited, court-ordered deposition on Wednesday , in the New York Attorney General’s inquiry into his Manhattan-based empire of golf resorts and real estate, Business Insider has learned.
Trump will be questioned in person in Manhattan on what the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, has claimed is a decade-long series of financial misstatements in documents that were used by the Trump Organisation to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and bank loans.
The confirmation to Insider came from a source with the knowledge of the date.
After the report first appeared, Trump suggested on his social media platform, Truth Social, that the deposition would be held on Wednesday.At 7 a.m., Secret Service and the NYPD and a large group of media were in place at the lower Manhattan office building, where the AG has her New York City offices, and from where her investigation was initiated.
Security was at a high level in the anticipation of the motorcade of the former President which included Secret Service conducting sweeps of the garage’s underground parking.Trump’s lengthy, taped deposition is just the latest in an escalating series of significant legal issues this week for the former President.
On Monday, FBI agents searched Trump’s office and home in the waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.On Tuesday the federal appeals court panel declared that Congress has the right to access Trump’s tax returns.
The New York Attorney General has requested since January to investigate Trump under oath on his financial records.The subpoena he received originally ordered Trump to appear before the Attorney General the 7th of January.Trump’s lawyers battled against the order in the court for over six years, but were unsuccessful in both the state Supreme Court and in the First Department Appellate Division, both in Manhattan.
Due to the result of these court losses the former President, his daughter and son Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.Donald Trump Jr.and Ivanka Trump – were scheduled for deposition on the 20th of July 21 and 22.However, those dates were pushed back with the attorney general’s approval due to the cause of Ivana Trump’s suicide on July 14.
Donald Trump Jr.and Ivanka Trump Ivanka Trump of who have been Trump Organisation Executive Vice Presidents and deposition witnesses – were present this week, an insider reported.
Their elder brother Eric Trump, also a Vice President of the company, cited his Fifth Amendment right more than 500 times when he took part in an James deposition in October of 2020.
Trump is currently having a difficult run in the GOP primary elections to pick Trump for the 2024 presidential election after the Mar A Lago residence FBI raid to discover documents that he claimed to be classified he brought home after his presidency ended and instead of giving them to national archives.The shocking accusations against him for his claims of involvement in the capital insurrection carried out by an congressional panel, and more more Republicans refusing to support him and his top fundraisers seeking alternative candidates.
The tax fraud matter is the tipping point in an ongoing series of allegations brought by Democrats to impeach and sentence him to deter him from occupying the Oval Office again.Trump has described all accusations against him as being part of an investigation from the Democrats.
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