The Manhattan DA’s office is in a tug of war for Donald Trump’s tax records…
So far?
The Federal Courts are giving him time….
But?
They seem to indicating that sooner or later?
DA Vance WILL get the financial data to be presented to a criminal grand jury….
THAT COULD result in Trump being criminally charged with tax fraud on a state level….
There would be NO pardon coming to his rescue…
BTW?
If Donald Trump is NOT President as of January 21, 2021?
One would assume his tax information WILL be forming to Congress and the Manhattan DA’s office….
Trump has the law waiting for him no matter how much he ducks….
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been locked in a yearlong legal battle with President Trump over obtaining his tax returns, suggested for the first time in a court filing on Monday that it had grounds to investigate him and his businesses for tax fraud.
The filing by the office of the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., offered rare insight into the office’s investigation of the president and his business dealings, which began more than two years ago.
Mr. Vance, a Democrat, has never revealed the scope of his office’s criminal inquiry, citing grand jury secrecy. The investigation has been stalled by the fight over a subpoena that the office issued in August 2019 for eight years of the president’s tax returns.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump have said the subpoena should be blocked, calling it “wildly overbroad” and politically motivated. Mr. Vance responded to that argument in a carefully worded new filing that did not directly accuse Mr. Trump or any of his businesses or associates of wrongdoing and took pains to avoid disclosing details about the inquiry….
image….Doug Mills/The New York Times