Donald Trump’s legal challenges of the 2020 election, the
New York Times reported Friday on Trump’s potential legal jeopardy. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is reportedly “significantly escalating” its criminal investigation into the president and his private business, having recently interviewed both Deutsche Bank employees and employees with insurance broker Aon.
Manhattan District Attorney
Cy Vance (D) has long been trying to get his hands on President Trump’s tax returns, fighting to the Supreme Court and back and then back to the Supreme Court again. Vance previously argued in an appellate brief that he should be able to obtain the documents via a subpoena of a third party namely, Trump’s finance firm Mazars USA LLP because news reports indicate that a “criminal tax fraud” investigation is warranted.
Trump delay tactics in rape defamation case show weakness and fear, E. Jean Carroll lawyer says CNBC 12/11/2020 Dan Mangan
President Donald Trump s desperation to avoid the justice system is a sign of weakness and fear, a lawyer for writer E. Jean Carroll told the judge presiding over her rape defamation suit.
The attorney s critique came as he urged Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to reject Trump s latest effort to stall the case pending an appeal.
Last month, the Department of Justice asked the federal 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse Kaplan s decision barring the DOJ from swapping the U.S. government into the case as the defendant.