(New York) Former US President Donald Trump was ordered by a New York judge on Monday to pay $10,000 a day as long as he refuses to provide accounting and tax documents as part of a civil investigation. on his group.
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“This is a major victory, a court has ruled in our favor to convict Donald Trump of obstruction,” New York State Attorney General, Democrat-elect Letitia James wrote on Twitter.
“Donald Trump must pay $10,000 a day for every day he continues to defy the court order to deliver documents to my office,” said the attorney general, who has been investigating for years into possible fraud in the tax practices of the Trump Organization.
On February 17, Letitia James obtained a New York judge to order the Republican billionaire and his children Donald Jr. and Ivanka to testify under oath in the context of this investigation. A decision against which the Trumps appealed.
But the court had also requested before March 31 a whole series of accounting and tax documents on the Trump Organization. Faced with the lack of response, Letitia James had again retaliated before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, asking that he be held responsible for “obstruction for his refusal to comply with a court order “.
The New York Attorney General suspects the Trump Organization of having “fraudulently” overstated the value of real estate properties when applying for bank loans and of having understated them with the tax authorities to pay less taxes.
In parallel with this civil investigation, a separate criminal investigation is being opened in Manhattan into possible financial fraud within the Trump group.