U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to tell reporters about the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election at the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, USA, November 5, 2020.
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-minute offer from former President Donald Trump to keep his financial records, including years of tax returns, out of the hands of Manhattan’s district attorney, Cy Vance Jr.
The decision, the second time that the country’s highest court has ruled on the matter, was announced in an order without notable differences. The news puts the ex-president, who faces investigations in New York and elsewhere, even more in danger.
The legal battle over Trump’s financial records, including personal and business documents dated 2011, comes in connection with an investigation by Vance’s office about potential tax violations.
The prosecutor is also reportedly examining secret money payments made on Trump’s behalf to two women who said they had affairs with him. Trump denied his claims.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Vance wrote, “The work continues.”
A combined photo shows adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, speaking in New York, and U.S. President Donald Trump speaking in Washington, Michigan, USA, on April 16, 2018 and April 28 2018, respectively.
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A spokesman for Vance, Danny Frost, said the office would no longer comment, but indicated it would act quickly to impose its subpoena on the president’s accounting firm, Mazars USA.
The former president’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The decision comes three days after The New York Times reported that Vance’s office hired a former federal prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, who has extensive experience in white-collar fraud cases, to work on Trump’s investigation.
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