N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business
The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation as she argued for the need to question Donald J. Trump and two of his children under oath.
Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum

The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, accused Donald J. Trump’s family business late Tuesday of repeatedly misrepresenting the value of its assets to bolster its bottom line, saying in court papers that the company had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices.

The filing came in response to Mr. Trump’s recent effort to block Ms. James from questioning him and two of his adult children under oath as part of a civil investigation of his business, the Trump Organization. Ms. James’s inquiry into Mr. Trump and the company is ongoing, and it is unclear whether her lawyers will ultimately file a lawsuit against them.

Still, the filing marked the first time that the attorney general’s office leveled such specific accusations against the former president’s company. Her broadside ratchets up the pressure on Mr. Trump as he seeks to ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/nyre ... james.html

N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business
The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation as she argued for the need to question Donald J. Trump and two of his children under oath.
Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum

The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, accused Donald J. Trump’s family business late Tuesday of repeatedly misrepresenting the value of its assets to bolster its bottom line, saying in court papers that the company had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices.

The filing came in response to Mr. Trump’s recent effort to block Ms. James from questioning him and two of his adult children under oath as part of a civil investigation of his business, the Trump Organization. Ms. James’s inquiry into Mr. Trump and the company is ongoing, and it is unclear whether her lawyers will ultimately file a lawsuit against them.

Still, the filing marked the first time that the attorney general’s office leveled such specific accusations against the former president’s company. Her broadside ratchets up the pressure on Mr. Trump as he seeks to ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/nyre ... james.html

New York AG says her office has evidence Trump's company lied to tax officials and banks
UPDATED ON: JANUARY 19, 2022

The New York attorney general's office said late Tuesday it had told a court that its investigators had uncovered evidence that President Donald Trump's company used "fraudulent or misleading" asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits.

Attorney General Letitia James' office detailed its findings in a court motion seeking to force Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. to comply with subpoenas seeking their testimony.

The court filing said ...

Do his hands count?

Rachel Maddow mocks Trump for "lying about the square footage of his hands — I mean his apartment"
The most expensive U.S. apartment last year? $169 million. Trump allegedly said his was worth $327 million
By JOHN WRIGHT

Former president Donald Trump allegedly inflating the value of his company's assets is reminiscent of him bragging about his hand size during a 2016 debate, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

During a report on the New York attorney general's investigation into Trump's company, Maddow noted Wednesday night that the former president is accused of claiming ....

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/20/rachel ... t_partner/

‘House of Trump is crumbling’: why ex-president’s legal net is tightening
Some Trumpland observers are convinced that he is in serious legal trouble as New York’s AG investigation of Trump Organizations’s finances intensifies
Ed Pilkington

When Donald Trump announced plans in 2006 to build a golf complex on ancient sand dunes on the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland he told reporters it was love at first sight. “As soon as I saw it there was no question about it,” he said. It would be the world’s “greatest golf course”.

This week Trump International Scotland became a central element of a case that looks poised to ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... SApp_Other

Trump's new legal troubles mount — even as Russia probe officially runs out of steam
Donald Trump's no-good, very bad week
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

If last week was considered Joe Biden's no-good, very bad week, there's a case to be made that this week was Donald Trump's no-good, even worse week.

Let's look at all of the legal cases and investigations that seem to be pushing forward against Trump despite his best efforts to repel them with lawsuits and delaying tactics. The good news for Trump is that it appears the Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided that all of the obstruction of justice Trump perpetrated in plain sight during the Russia investigation is not worth prosecuting. Unless they make a move very quickly, the statute of limitations is about to run out on that front. So much for Robert Mueller's sanguine pronouncement that we needn't worry about his refusal to recommend indictment because, of course, they could always do it after the president left office.

But that's the only good news on this front that Trump's received in recent days.

The former president is still facing a flurry of ...

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/21/new-le ... -of-steam/

There's probably very little enthusiasm in the WH to prosecute Trump for crimes related to his Presidency.

Trump’s former attorney says Letitia James has over 10 million documents on Trump: I’ve seen the boxes
Tammy Marie Rose

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen contradicted former President Donald Trump’s allegation that New York Attorney General Letitia James has the paperwork necessary to establish he committed fraud on Wednesday.

After James alleged in a court filing that Trump has a practice of inflating and deflating the worth of his properties as needed for profit, Cohen made the remarks on CNN.

When it comes to forecasting whether Trump would face a civil suit, the former Trump attorney said he’s “about as near to a ten as you can go” on a scale of one to ten.

“To be more than 100% certain by having others who could also be ...

https://vozwire.com/trumps-former-attor ... the-boxes/

Could just as easily posted this on the Election thread

‘This Is Incredibly Dangerous’: CNN Panel Stunned by Trump’s New Call for Protests if He’s Prosecuted
Tom Boggioni

Reacting to some of the statements Donald Trump made at a rally in Conroe, Texas on Saturday night, where he called on his fans to launch protests if he is prosecuted, a CNN panel raised the red flag and warned it looked like he was encouraging another Jan 6th riot.

Joining hosts Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez, CNN’s Brian Stelter said the former president left no doubt that he intends to run for president again in 2024 — regardless of being the subject of multiple civil and criminal investigations.

The three grew visibly concerned after watching a clip of the former president stating, “If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington DC, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt,” before the cheering Texas crowd.

“He’s directly challenging the rule of law, a legitimate investigation and emboldening the very people who tried to undo the results of the 2020 election,” host Sanchez remarked before adding ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... rosecuted/

Legal expert now believes Donald Trump will be going to court for multiple crimes: This is different, all signals are toward indictment
Tammy Marie Rose

Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former president of the United States, will “likely” be indicted, according to ABC News legal commentator Dan Abrams, who believes it will be difficult for him to avoid accountability this time.

“All signs point to a likely indictment,” Abrams, the founder of Law & Crime and Mediaite, told the co-hosts on “The View”.

“Why do I say that? First, you’ve got the fight over former President Trump’s tax returns. Then you’ve got the hiring of a very high-profile prosecutor, who is brought in to basically oversee this case. He leaves a very cushy job in private practice, to come in and work in the DA’s office just on this case, this is his expertise, and now you’ve got this special grand jury, that’s been empaneled typically you don’t get a special grand jury, like this, unless they believe they have evidence of a crime. So, all the evidence all the signals are towards a likely indictment of someone, if not more than one person.”

Joy Behar voiced concern that Trump has “gotten away with” a number of wrongdoings and has never faced serious consequences.

“Indulge me in my skepticism,” Behar asked, “but Trump has gotten away with impeachment, he’s gotten away with inciting a riot at the Capitol. He got away in the Mueller investigation, you know, what makes you think they’re gonna ...

https://vozwire.com/legal-expert-now-be ... ndictment/

This just keeps getting better.

Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements
The statements are at the center of two investigations into whether the former president and his company exaggerated the value of their assets.
Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum

Donald J. Trump’s longtime accounting firm cut ties with his family business last week amid ongoing criminal and civil investigations into whether Mr. Trump illegally inflated the value of his assets, court documents filed on Monday show.

In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for Mr. Trump. The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided.

The letter instructed the Trump Organization to essentially retract the documents, known as statements of financial condition, from 2011 to 2020. In the letter, Mazars noted that the firm had not “as a whole” found material discrepancies between the information the Trump Organization provided and the actual value of Mr. Trump’s assets. But given what it called “the totality of circumstances,” the letter directed the Trump Organization to notify anyone who received the statements that they should no longer rely on them.

The statements, which Mr. Trump used to secure loans, are at the center of the two law enforcement investigations into the former president and his company. The Manhattan district attorney’s office and the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, have been investigating whether ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyre ... ments.html

The headline is a little misleading since these are "statements of financial condition" as opposed to audited financial statements. The two are not the same thing. The article does go on to state that Mazars had not "audited or authenticated" his claims and did "not express an opinion or provide any assurance about” the statements (that disclaimer is the norm when issuing statements of financial condition - basically it says that the accounting firm had simply summarized what they were told and had, at most, given it a once over to make sure things looked "sort of" reasonable.

He seems to have forgotten that the GOP has been investigating Hillary for decades and so far have managed to come up with zilch. So either there's nothing to find or all those Republican led committees are/were completely incompetent (or both).

Distraught Eric Trump Calls for Prosecutors to Investigate Hillary Clinton – ‘They’ll Go After My Father for Nothing
David Badash

Appearing on Fox News Monday night a distraught Eric Trump told Sean Hannity that Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted.

“Isn’t that a, you know, isn’t that fraud? Isn’t that all sorts of offenses?” Trump asked Hannity, a longtime unofficial advisor to Donald Trump.

“Where are the prosecutors right now?” Eric Trump asked. “You know, the same prosecutors, they’ll go after my father every single day for nothing, right? Just because they want to disqualify him because he’s clearly the front runner for 2024,” cried Eric Trump, a top executive of the Trump Organization, which is facing investigations of potential fraud. There is massive evidence of potential, possibly criminal, wrongdoing by Donald Trump as well, going as far back as the Mueller investigation if not earlier.

“Where are those prosecutors? Hillary Rodham Clinton is a ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... r-nothing/

Mazars' letter can be found here

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/ ... 9272664070

Rather difficult for a company to not have auditors.

he is up to 41 active cases associated with his "presidency", now.

Be "interesting" to see what happens. And I can't imagine anyone being willing to take Trump's businesses on as a client.

Mafia has accountants.

But even they have to work thru "legitimate" fronts.

True. He's fooked.

True - they do tend to try to remain below the radar.

Not the sharpest crayon in the box.

Trump’s Rant About Mazars ‘Will Not Serve Him Well’ in Court: Former Prosecutor
John Wright

Former president Donald Trump’s Tuesday night rant responding to the accounting firm Mazars USA’s decision to drop his company as a client could come back to haunt him in court, according to former New York state and federal prosecutor Danya Perry.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is conducting a civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s business practices, pointed out in a court filing Wednesday that Trump’s statement contradicted arguments made by his lawyers in the case.

“It is not unusual for parties to a legal proceeding to disagree about the facts,” James’ office wrote. “But it is truly rare for a party to publicly disagree with statements submitted by his own attorneys in a signed pleading — let alone one day after the pleading was filed.”

Appearing on MSNBC later Wednesday, Perry said that in his statement, Trump “admits a lot of the facts that are in contest, and you do rarely see that.”

“Rarely within a day or ever do you see a ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... rosecutor/

Preparing an insanity plea?

This just gets better ....

Judge orders Trump, children to answer questions about their business practices under oath
A New York judge shot down a bid to block the state attorney general's subpoenas of the former president, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump.
Dareh Gregorian

A New York judge on Thursday ordered former President Donald Trump and two of his children to answer questions under oath about the Trump Organization's business practices in the state attorney general's civil probe of the company.

Lawyers for Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump had sought to quash the subpoenas from Attorney General Letitia James' office, arguing her investigation is politically motivated and designed to provide fuel for an ongoing criminal probe into the company by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

In his ruling, state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron gave the green light for the three to be deposed within the next three weeks. He also ordered the former president to turn over documents and information that had been subpoenaed within two weeks, and portrayed the Trumps' claims of being selectively targeted as overblown.

"In the final analysis, a state attorney general commences investigating a business entity, uncovers copious evidence of possible financial fraud, and wants to question, under oath, several of the entities' principals, including its namesake. She has the clear right to do so," the judge wrote in his eight-page decision.

The Trumps' lawyers indicated at a hearing earlier in the day that they would appeal if ....

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... -rcna16659