The Trump Organization, the group of companies controlled by the family of former US President Donald Trump, is the subject of a thought investigation. This was announced by the New York State Attorney, Letitia James, through spokesman Fabien Levy. “We have notified the Trump Organization that the investigation into this organization is no longer exclusively of a civilian nature,” Levy said according to what was relaunched by the US media. Levy added that the criminal investigation is being conducted “in conjunction with Manhattan Attorney” Cyrus Vance.
The investigation, various US media reports, was opened due to allegations by the president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, who testified to Congress in 2019, stating that Trump has deliberately provided incorrect assessments of his assets in various official documents. in order to obtain tax breaks and advantageous credit conditions.
Manhattan attorney Vance, a Democrat, in 2018 had already launched an investigation initially focused on the payments made, before the 2016 presidential election, to two alleged Trump lovers. The investigation has now extended to the hypothesis of tax evasion and bank fraud. Trump, who left the White House in January, denies any wrongdoing and has called the investigation “a continuation of the largest political witch hunt in the history of our country.”