FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington upon his return from New York, U.S., November 3, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump s longtime accounting firm must hand over eight years of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday in the latest setback for Trump in his tenacious efforts to keep his finances secret.
The ruling by a unanimous three-judge panel of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals backed the ability of prosecutors to enforce a subpoena for the returns against accounting firm Mazars LLP. Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for Trump, said the Republican president will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose 5-4 conservative majority includes two justices appointed by Trump.
The court elected to dispense with culture war hallmarks of the past four years that radiated through cable news as evidence of distinctly Trumpian division.
In a one-sentence order Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Manhattan grand jury to look at former President Donald Trump s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation, something he s been fighting for years.
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