Business Insider is out with a new report that’s left us absolutely howling with laughter after they revealed that, according to Donald Trump, it’s downright impossible for him to produce the 12 former executive assistants who worked for the Trump Organization that the NY AG is requesting interviews from — Because they won’t answer his phone calls.
According to the report, Trump made this admission in court, through his legal team, in connection to the ongoing investigation against him and his family company by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Laura Italiano reports for the publication, “A defense lawyer has explained why so many of Donald Trump’s former executive assistants can’t be located: they won’t return his phone calls. New York Attorney General Letitia James demanded that Trump make his former secretaries available as she winds up her 3-year investigation of the former president’s real estate and golf resort empire.”
“She wants them to swear out affidavits explaining the process they used to organize and preserve Trump’s personal business records, scant few of which have been produced for the AG’s probe,” Insider’s report goes on to note. “‘It is striking that counsel could not locate any of Mr. Trump’s 12 former executive assistants,’ AG Special Counsel Andrew Amer had said in court papers on May 23. But most of the 12 missing former executive assistants had not responded to voicemails or failed to call back as promised, explained the latest filing in Trump’s battle against James’ document subpoena.”
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James’ mounting civil investigation into the Trump Organization centers around whether the company intentionally kept two separate sets of books, one to value the company’s assets much higher if they were seeking out bank loans, and the other portraying their assets much lower when they were seeking out more favorable tax breaks.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has been conducting a criminal probe into the ex-president’s company along a similar vein and recently concluded its grand jury with no charges lodged against the former president himself, although DA Alvin Bragg says that probe is still ongoing.
See the full report from Business Insider here.
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