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NEW YORK – The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has taken possession of former president Donald Trump’s tax returns and a wealth of other financial data deemed central to prosectors’ ongoing criminal case, officials confirmed Thursday.
The transfer, involving millions of pages of records, occurred Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the former president’s last-ditch bid to shield his financial records from the district attorney, Democrat Cyrus Vance.
The Hill reports that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has obtained former President Trump’s tax returns. This is as a result of a Supreme Court decision.
CNN, which first reported on the new development, reported that prosecutors have obtained millions of pages of documents, including tax returns from January 2011 to August 2019, financial statements, and documents concerning the preparation and review of the tax returns.
The district attorney’s office obtained the documents from Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, which it had subpoenaed in 2019 as part of a grand jury investigation.
They are supposed to be kept secret, according to grand jury rules, but that won’t happen.
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Trump’s tax returns given to Manhattan prosecutors
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By AARON KATERSKY, ABC News
(NEW YORK) The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has taken possession of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a spokesman for the office told ABC News.
The documents were turned over Monday by the former president’s accountants at Mazars USA. The Trump tax documents run into the millions of pages, a source told ABC News.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Trump’s request to shield his taxes from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The ruling cleared the way for DA Cyrus Vance to enforce a grand jury subpoena for the records.
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