In case you were wondering, Donald Trump’s legal troubles are far from over, folks.
No sooner than his golf bags were packed out of the White House, prosecutors and investigators started coming for him with torches and pitchforks — and rightfully so, being that the man spent four years avoiding any punishment or reparations for his multiple transgressions thanks to the power of the presidency.
But Trump doesn’t have that power anymore, he’s nothing more than a private, average Joe citizen now, and entities are taking advantage of that fact to finally force the man to pay for his sins. And most of them are hailing straight from his old stomping grounds of New York.
State District Attorney Letitia James has been gunning for the former president for ages now, and now Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance has joined the club with a bombshell investigation into Trump’s finances and potential tax fraud. In fact, Vance was recently allowed access to 8 years worth of the former president’s coveted financial documents and tax returns.
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And boy, is he putting them to good use.
According to a bombshell new report from the Wall Street Journal, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has recently turned its attention to Trump’s attempts to develop the Seven Springs estate in Westchester County, New York.
According to the report, the DA’s office has issued yet another flurry of subpoenas and requests for recordings of local government meetings, all in relation to the former real estate “mogul’s” failed attempts to turn the Seven Springs property into luxury housing, which he purchased for a cool $7.5 million back in 1995.
“Prosecutors in recent weeks have sent subpoenas to land-use lawyer Charles Martabano and engineer Ralph Mastromonaco, both of whom were involved in planning the Trump Organization’s proposal for Seven Springs,” the Journal reports. “The district attorney’s office also requested recordings of planning-board meetings in Bedford, N.Y., one of three towns on which the Seven Springs estate sits.”
The attention on Seven Springs is, of course, only one leg of a much larger investigation into Trump’s overall finances, with attorneys working for Vance telling the courts that they’re trying to determine if the former president committed tax fraud by lying about the value of his multiple properties.
“Prosecutors’ interest in the local planning process could relate to the property’s valuation, and whether it was improperly inflated on financial documents,” WSJ says.
In addition to the Seven Springs property, Vance’s office has also subpoenaed financial documents regarding a skyscraper that Trump had built in Chicago. The scope of their investigation that’s beginning to spread across the country is indicative of potentially widespread fraud by the former president, involving his entire real estate empire.
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