At 3rd of March the deadline for delivery of necessary documentsrequested by New York Public Prosecutor’s Office by Donald Trump in the context of research for opaque business practices. In fact, Trump’s lawyers asked – and got – new extension for March 31, which also passed without result. After all this, a New York court imposed on the former president $ 10,000 fine for each day, where the documents are not delivered. A relevant request was submitted by the Attorney General on April 8. Responding to a reporter’s question, if the decision marks the beginning of a judicial investigation into the Trump group, the Attorney General of New York, Leticia Jameshe answered succinctly: “I think the verdict was clear”.
Among other things, the judicial authorities suspect that in some cases Donald Trump overpriced real estateso that repay bank loans on preferential terms, while in other cases the underestimatedto pay less taxes and reduced insurance contributions. As he explains Daniel Alonso, Partner at Buckley LLP in New York, Donald Trump “has withheld the documents in a kind of ‘political disobedience’. But now there is a fine of $ 10,000 a day. He has the key to stop this story. “Once he delivers the documents, the fine is revoked.”
“Shadows” in the 2024 election campaign
For decades, Donald Trump has faced accusations of unfair business practices. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. At the age of 75, he is talking about a new candidacy in the 2024 presidential elections. Trump hopes to return triumphantly to the White House, while aEarl has not conceded defeat to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in the 2020 presidential election. As for the fines he is required to pay, his lawyers claim that the relevant decision of the court is “unjustified and constitutes a political plot”.
Lawyer Daniel Alonso estimates that Trump’s legal staff will appeal the court ruling on fines, but as he points out “the delivery of documents is not an optional case. The same applies to the implementation of court decisions. It is very unusual for someone to say ‘I am not going to comply with this decision’. We must all comply with the decisions of the courts, there is no exception for a former president … “
Is the prosecution “catching accusations”?
In mid-February the competent court had asked her daughter of Donald Trump, Ivanka, as well as by his son, Donald Jr., to testify in this case. At the same time, he had set the deadline of March 8 for the submission of the necessary documents. Leticia James’s preliminary investigation began in 2019. Already at that time, Donald Trump was accusing the Democratic Party of essentially “He fishes blindly” charges against him (“fishing expedition”) and therefore refuses to hand over the documents requested by the judicial authorities.
Lawyer Daniel Alonso’s comment: “This is nonsense. The Attorney General explains convincingly that these are tax and insurance documents that everyone has. You and I have kept similar documents somewhere in our files. The accusation that someone is illegally ‘fishing’ accusations and evidence against us is not valid … “
DW / Giannis Papadimitriou (AP)
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