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The New York attorney general's office says it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity".

A spokesman for the state's top prosecutor, Letitia James, said the
inquiry into Mr Trump's property company was "no longer purely civil".

Ms James has been scrutinising the ex-Republican president's financial
dealings before he took office.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57166735

The Trumps deny wrongdoing and say the inquiry by a Democratic prosecutor
is a political vendetta.

Ms James' spokesman, Fabien Levy, told the BBC on Tuesday: "We have
informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the
Organization is no longer purely civil in nature.

"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA. We have no additional comment."

The statement did not say what turned the inquiry from civil to criminal
in nature, or whether the former president himself might be personally implicated in any allegations.

Civil cases usually have to do with injury to individuals or other private parties, including businesses; criminal law applies in cases where the
damage is thought to affect society at large, including the state.

Six legal battles looming for Trump

Ms James launched a civil inquiry in March 2019 into claims that Mr Trump
had inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans, and understated them to lower his taxes.

Her office has also been seeking documents on four Trump Organization properties in Manhattan, upstate New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr said in court documents last
August that his office was investigating alleged "protracted criminal
conduct" at the Trump Organization.

Mr Vance's legal filing cited newspaper articles about purported bank and insurance fraud at the company.

The Manhattan district attorney has also been investigating whether any of
Mr Trump's financial records were doctored to cover up hush-money payments
to two women in 2016 who say they had affairs with him.

Mr Vance's office said in February it had obtained Mr Trump's tax returns
as part of the investigation, after a long legal battle.

Throughout his presidency, Mr Trump resolutely refused to reveal his tax returns, despite coming under great pressure to do so.

Throughout his time in office, Donald Trump dismissed any probe into his financial dealings or those of his organisation as a politically-motivated "witch hunt" led by Democrats desperate to see him forced from power.

Yet now that he no longer enjoys protection from prosecution, this latest development will trouble him. That a former US president is facing not one
but two criminal investigations is a significant development, one which
could have repercussions for his political future.

The New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, clearly believes that
there is enough at play to warrant moving the investigation from a civil
to a criminal one. When combined with the ongoing examination of the
former president's tax returns by the Manhattan District Attorney, Cy
Vance, Mr Trump is looking at a complex and tangled legal battle ahead —
one which he remains adamant he shouldn't have to face but which he now
almost certainly cannot avoid.

### - ah this is great stuff, and is kinda hilarious really haha :)))

i.e., they couldn't get the fucker any other way, so, just like capone
that time, they're bringing him down via several dubious business
practices (dubious to say the least) and also tax evasion which is what
they actually gots capone on in the end hehe...

the problem in the gop being, that they'd love to be rid of him only he's
still got all those popular votes behind him see? in which case they've
ended up now distancing themselves + denying that the election was rigged (because it looks ridiculous to continue to do so) yet needing to keep
trump because of his huge following even though he's still preaching a fake/rigged election?? lol :)))

ahem, we don't believe the election was in fact rigged, so yes old trumpy
is a bit batty, but we still need him if we're to have any chance of
winning the next election!?

iow: we know it's a lie and we know he's nuts, and we definitely don't
agree with him, but without him we have no viable party! whereas having 2 parties - one for us and one for him - would split the vote and then
neither of us would ever get back into office!? wtf are we gonna do???
help!

so then, he's basically going out the back door haha... they'll use him to
keep up their numbers while they quietly destroy him and then hopefully
hang-on to all his followers see? haha, probably by trying to sound a bit
like him coz, well, it seemed to work??

raising a kind of 'nationalistic' fervor far beyond what bush ever did via
iraq that time?

(must be all those guns heh, they been itchin' to be used so violence
appeals to people maybe) ;)

smile... they love 'flags' on this planet don't they haha...

MY flag's better than YOUR flag!!! cunt!

damn, it's like watching a bunch of raving mad football hooligans lookin'
for a punchup? LOL ! :)))

they don't see it that way, of course... haha

but THAT'S precisely what it is! just different versions of it lol :)))

UP THE REDS!!! (the crowd roars...) UP THE BLUES!!! (a different crowd roars...)

and they're ALL as-insane as each other LOL ! :)))

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