The supplementary order is one of several that Manhattan Supreme Court judge Arthur Engoron made last month, requesting the Morgan, Lewis & Bockius tax firm to deliver documents that James’s office requested as part of its investigation.
The attorney general’s office declined to comment. CNN contacted the Trump Organization and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for comment.
Engoron wrote that he revised in particular documents that Trump’s lawyer Sheri Dillon of Morgan Lewis & Bockius has to deliver, saying that the documents he determined will not be privileged will be delivered by February 4.
“The court considers that many of the communications that Morgan Lewis marked as privileged were communications dealing with business tasks and decisions, not exchanges soliciting or providing legal advice,” Engoron wrote in his order on Friday.
The status of documents related to investigated tax breaks on a property has been a point of contention in the case.
Amy Carlin, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, argued last month that the company had “all expectations that these communications would be confidential” about discussions about a property in Westchester County involving an engineer.
The attorney general’s office argued that the documents were not privileged, in part, because the Trump Organization had “renounced privilege” by disclosing certain documents to the IRS to “get benefits,” said attorney Eric Haren of the attorney general’s office. .
Haren said that “literally everything except the final appraisal value” has not been revealed to his office.
James’s office has been investigating Trump and the Trump Organization since 2019, when former Trump attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress that the former president’s annual financial statements inflated his asset values to secure favorable loans and insurance coverage, but deflated the value of other assets in order to reduce real estate taxes.
CNN’s Caroline Kelly contributed to this report.