New York Attorney General Probe of Trump Organization Now a Criminal Investigation
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The New York attorney general's office's investigation of former President Donald Trump's business now has a criminal component, a spokesman said Tuesday night, joining the Manhattan district attorney's office probe and expanding a monthslong inquiry that until now had been focused on civil fraud.
"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature," said Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the attorney general's office. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA."
The Manhattan district attorney's office is conducting an investigation into possible bank fraud and other potential crimes. Separately, the top local prosecutor in the Atlanta area is probing whether Mr. Trump improperly tried to influence election officials last year.
The Trump Organization didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the investigation, which was reported earlier by CNN.
Mr. Trump has previously called the investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, a partisan "witch hunt."
The New York attorney general’s civil investigation became public last August , when the office said it was looking into whether the Trump Organization and President Trump improperly inflated the value of Mr. Trump’s assets in financial filings. Attorney general’s office investigators have probed several Trump properties, including his sprawling upstate New York estate Seven Springs, a Financial District skyscraper at 40 Wall St., and Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, a hotel and residential complex, according to court filings.
The New York attorney general has limited capacity to investigate crimes. Its criminal investigatory authority extends to the sale of securities, labor-law violations and Medicaid fraud, among other matters. It can also be asked to investigate crimes by the head of several New York state agencies, including the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.
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We got him now!
Does it ever end for the haters?
But... Benghazi.
Hey that's cute. Perhaps you can tell me, and our readers, how many of those charges, indictments, and prison sentences were inflicted on Mr. Trump himself.
Thanks.
Oh, don't worry, we are getting to that.. As the article indicates.
So zero it is then. Thought so.
Appreciate the confirmation. And who is we if you don't mind divulging..........................
Right, so everyone around donny is a criminal but not donny himself. Keep telling yourself that.
You do understand that many of these investigations started more than 5 months ago, right? They started under Trump's DOJ, but many were not allowed to proceed under Trump's DOJ.
How many times have progressives investigated Donald Trump?
not enough
Not nearly as much as the regressives have investigated the Clintons.
They are scum, dirty dishonest SCUM.
Correction: It was the democrats who either ran a faux investigation or exonerated their own. Linda Tripp was right about one thing: Everyone in the Clinton orbit is willing to lie for them. I'd say even Jim Comey & co.
All investigations, previously, were conducted under Trump's own DOJ. Or did you forget that part?
And yet, after all these years of republican investigations, the republicans were so profoundly incompetent that they could not find anything on any Clinton. And it is these incompetent republicans that you defend and support.
So the republicans are either incompetent beyond measure, or there was nothing to find..........or both.
Trey Gowdy is a democrat? That's news to me.
Anytime you want to trade: You can do the congressional investigations and we'll use US Attorneys and the FBI.
Of course you can't answer any real questions.
Replace the name Trump with Obama, Bush(s), or Clinton and you would be overjoyed. Don't even bother to deny it.
Why? How many times was Hillary Clinton investigated?
How were they conducted?
8 for Benghazi, 3 for emails, 2 for whitewater. All were republican led. None amounted to much of anything. All those investigations and the right couldn't even charge her with so much as a parking ticket.
Benghazi was a congressional investigation, which totals 0.
What about the faux FBI investigation of her server? [removed]
If you don't mind this kind of conversation is beneath me.
Carry on
Wow, Benghazi was never investigated? Are you sure about that?
How about the server investigation? Cat got your tongue?
Vic only counts investigations that occur on every other Thursday, on even numbered days, where the wind is blowing northerly, and the humidity is at exactly 39%. Those or any investigation that makes his point.
All other investigations do not count.
White Water...
Where the evidence suddenly appeared after the statue of limitations expired.
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Not sure, Hannity was complaining about Biden's dogs last week.
Hannity was complaining about Biden's dogs last week.
As for it ever ending for the haters......I'm sure Hillary's name is being worked in to the script this week.
IT's funny. We've gone from the Big Lie of a treasonous conspiracy between Trump and Russia to steal an election and hearing all sorts of promises that Trump was going to be arrested for crimes to numerous to list as President to a "gotcha" of accounting errors at his organization that will result in fines if proven.
History will record it all. Our grandchildren will look back in anger at all that we allowed. Then again, it was a tough hand to beat. They controlled the media (both msm and social media), most of the bureaucracy, most of our institutions as well as the university. We shall eventually "overcome!"
No they will look back and wonder how their parents and grandparents could be so stupid as to support a conman and grifter in the highest position in the land.
They will condemn every progressive who walked the earth in our lifetime.
If they condemn anything, it will be the spellbinding repartee of the Age ... one hopes.
Sean , Donald Trump made a 20 million dollar settlement to make a fraud charge against him go away (Trump University).
The New York Times proved, in a 50,000 word article, that Trump and his family members conducted tax fraud through the passing of money from Trump Sr to Donald by using sham vendors for their rental properties.
His children were very close to being indicted for fraud in relation to sales of condos.
At the same time investors in his Atlantic City casinos were losing much of their money because he was declaring bankruptcy Trump was paying himself huge bonuses.
He took donations to his Trump charity and used them to pay a fine from the local government against his Maralago property.
Trump has participated in pyramid schemes (as a spokesman for the multi level marketing company).
Unrelated to business but indicative of his personal ethics was his crusade as a "birther". He lied in that crusade about having sent detectives to Hawaii who , according to Trump, were discovering incredible things about Obamas past.
Donald Trump is a completely corrupt individual. Completely.
The idea that he is only guilty of "accounting errors" is absurd.
Bottom line: Trump helped America and Obama/Biden divided and destroyed it.
What a monster.
Care to name anything trump did to promote unity in the USA?
There was nothing. I used to think that GWB was divisive but he can't hold a candle to trump.
So what John?
Joe Biden is a plagiarist. Does that make it okay to accuse him of stealing the 2020 election?
Progressives have spent 6 years and counting claiming he committed treason and all sorts of other heinous crimes while in office and now the "big news" is his business may have inflated property values?
Trumpco will pay a fine... Whoopty do...
After all the hype, all the obsessing about the crimes he supposedly committed, that's what you are going to deliver? Some infraction by his company?
Oh please. Since you became a Trumpster your arguments have become weaker and weaker .
Trump as president is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to this country.
He belongs in prison, although I have my doubts that he will ever end up there.
He led chants and called everything "fake" or "deep state" ... that was uniting.
It's funny that all one has to do to be a "Trumpster" is point out the lies and ridiculous claims the left has been making for years.
When, exactly, is he going to be arrested for conspiring with Putin to steal the 2016 election? Do you imagine that his company being found guilty of this somehow makes all the lies and conspiracy theories that've been spun about him somehow true?
Donald Trump is a lifelong crook and pathological liar. He was never remotely qualified to become president of the United States.
We have on one side Trump and his campaign welcoming aid from Russia, "Russia, if you're listening..." "If it’s what you say, I love it, especially later in the summer” and, according to a bi-partisan Senate investigation, the Trump campaign manager "sought to secretly share" sensitive internal polling data from the Trump campaign with "a Russian intelligence officer" and a "breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian government operatives" which they and the FBI deemed a "very real counterintelligence threat to our elections."
On the other side we have, as even Republican senator Marco Rubio had to admit "irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling" from hacking private political parties email servers and publicly releasing damaging emails during the election to spending $1.25 million a month in fake social media ads and misinformation with the clear goal of hurting the Clinton campaign and helping the Trump campaign.
The only thing they were unable to uncover was a conversation directly between Trump and Putin where Trump was offering or stating what the repayment for Russian aid would be. To call the investigation and the surrounding media interest in it a "hoax" is to be either woefully uninformed or just blatantly stupid and obviously just a sniveling weasel partisan who doesn't give a fuck about truth and will ignore any and all wrongdoing by their own party.
What you describe is what the original civil investigation may have ended with, what is coming out now is that this is a CRIMINAL investigation meaning they are attempting to prove and have some evidence that those in the Trump organization committed crimes. We already know Trump former attorney committed crimes on dirty Donald's behalf, he was already sentenced and served time. What we shall soon see is whether those crimes that we all know were at Trumps behest will go all the way to the top, and anyone who has even an shred of integrity and desire for justice to be done will be wanting the truth to come out and wouldn't be downplaying Trumps involvement or trying to cover for Trumps criminal empire.
They need to keep Trump in the news to distract from Biden's horrendous failures.
#45 is THE lifelong horrendous failure
As do our friends right here at NewsTalkers. You see it every day. They just can't let go......it is truly sad but funny as hell at the same time. They got what they thought they wanted in Biden/Harris as within the next year and prior to the 2022 mid terms, a lot of minds will change. A LOT of minds.
Certainly do. Just look at the comment above yours....lol
" ... a lot of minds will change. A LOT of minds."
History enjoys making fools of those who try to predict it, hell, it will even supply the matching cheese.
We shall see my friend with no dog in this hunt. LOL
The walls are closing in on the trump crime syndicate. They wouldn't add the criminal element if they didn't already have substantial proof of a crime. Most people knew trump was a criminal LONG before he was ever in politics. He's been sued for fraud thousands of times.
Lock him up.
Perhaps Cohen was telling the truth about Trump's tax fraud and now that they have access to his tax records they found something. Time will tell.
It seems to be a common theme with trump, "fraud". Which ironically explains trump the man and his entire life up to and including his run for president.
The vermin on twitter would be thrilled with that.
No need to make it personal, just stating a fact.
Yet no one has provided any proof. Theme is a good word to describe the stories.
Legal affairs of Donald Trump
You know why I seeded this news piece? Because I knew a flock would fly in.
When it comes to my gut feelings, I'm constantly being proved right.
The most important articles are the ones that the birds avoid. Readers take note.
Your book reviews? Squawk!
Partisan muck raking?
Yes, you are proved right... So far right it's almost alt+right. Me, I'll stick to facts and logic.
Legal affairs? Are you saying legal affairs are proof of fraud?
You have virtually no knowledge of Trump's corrupt business activity, because you hide your head in the sand. Easier to complain about progressives if you remain blissfully unaware that you have spent 5 years supporting the most corrupt president in US history.
If you read what's on the link, that question would have been answered. And for the record, yes, fraud is actually a crime.
Poor Donald, irony is creeping up his arse, maybe it will make his shit bright red.
And if you and your fellow travelers get their wish, just how does it affect your life one way or the other? I will venture to say it won't. The only thing you will gain is a misdirected revenge on someone you didn't agree with and, so far, was hands down better at knowing what the US needs than the present occupant and his handlers.
That about sums up what Pelosi and all the rest of them are made of.
That was directed at our community useful idiot but the comment to which I was responding went **POOF** for some reason.
I think we can end this one by calling it what it is - an attempt to makes sure Donald Trump does not run again. We were once a country where politicians & political parties were above trying to criminalize the opposition.
Thanks to those who engaged in civil conversation.
Using the power of govt to go after political opponents is straight out of the communist playbook.
I wonder how many people still believe that Trump Russia collusion bs?