He’s gonna go back to the Supreme’s a second time….
First time they turned his efforts to keep the information from the DA, but gave him a out to contest the DA’s subpoena…
This is Trump’s 5th defeat in the court’s….
DA Vance has let on that his office IS looking at the Trump Organization, but is also presenting to the sitting grand jury possible criminal actions…
The New York Attorney General has just finished questioning Donald Trump Jr. about the Trump Organization….
The Trump Foundation was forced to dissolve by New York Attorney General’s actions…
New York’s tax forms are almost indentical to federal tax form’s…
So?
If the NY people find criminality /fraud in their forms?
The Feds might find the same thing in theirs…
If Trump was no longer President?
He would have no control over the IRS or Justice Dept.
The Manhattan district attorney can enforce a subpoena seeking President Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, a federal appeals panel ruled on Wednesday, dealing another blow to the president’s yearlong battle to keep his financial records out of the hands of state prosecutors.
The ruling by a three-judge panel in New York rejected the president’s argument that the subpoena should be blocked because it was too broad and amounted to political harassment from the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat.
Mr. Trump is expected to try to appeal the decision in the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Vance has said that his office will not enforce the subpoena for 12 days in exchange for the president’s lawyers agreeing to move quickly.
The president and Mr. Vance have been locked in a bitterly contested legal dispute since August 2019, when Mr. Vance’s office first subpoenaed eight years of Mr. Trump’s tax returns and other financial records from his accounting firm, Mazars USA. The subpoena is part of an investigation into Mr. Trump and his business practices.
Mr. Vance has not revealed the scope of his office’s criminal inquiry, citing grand jury secrecy. But prosecutors have suggested in court papers that they are looking at a range of potential crimes, including tax and insurance fraud and falsification of business records. They have said that the tax records are central to the investigation.
The decision marks the fifth time courts have rebuffed the president’s attempts to block the subpoena.
Mr. Trump has tried several arguments, first asserting last year that as a sitting president, he was immune from criminal investigation.
That question, which had never been tested in the courts, eventually ended up in the Supreme Court. In July, the justices issued a landmark decision rejecting the president’s immunity claim but saying he could challenge the subpoena on other grounds, such as its scope and relevance….