The Manhattan district attorney's office is conducting a parallel criminal investigation into Trump's business dealings. It is unlikely that Trump's lawyers would allow him to be deposed unless they were sure his testimony couldn't be used against him in a criminal case. It is rare for law enforcement agencies to issue a civil subpoena for testimony from a person who is also the subject of a related criminal probe, in part because the person under criminal investigation could simply invoke the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. As with Eric Trump, James' office will now likely have to issue a subpoena and go to a judge to order the former president to cooperate. 7, James' requested date, to answer questions voluntarily. But it's clear he won't be showing up Jan. Trump's lawsuit didn't explicitly mention James' request for his testimony, aside from a brief reference. Her office went to court to enforce a subpoena on the younger Trump, who's listed as president of a Trump company that controls one of the assets James has been scrutinizing, and a judge forced him to testify after his lawyers abruptly canceled a previously scheduled deposition. Last year, James' investigators interviewed one of Trump's sons, Trump Organization executive Eric Trump.
James has spent more than two years investigating whether the Trump Organization misled banks or tax officials about the value of assets - inflating them to gain favorable loan terms or minimizing them to reap tax savings.
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Trump also wants a judge to declare that James violated his free speech and due process rights. Trump, a Republican, seeks a permanent injunction barring James from investigating him and preventing her from being involved in any "civil or criminal" investigations against him and his company, such as a parallel criminal probe she's a part of that's being led by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. The case is assigned to Judge Brenda Sannes in Syracuse, who was appointed in 2014 by Trump's predecessor President Barack Obama, a Democrat, but preliminary proceedings will be handled by a magistrate judge in Albany, which isn't unusual for federal court. News of the lawsuit, filed in upstate New York, was first reported by The New York Times. James had announced a run for New York governor in late October, but earlier this month, she suspended that campaign and cited ongoing investigations in her decision to instead seek reelection as state attorney general. Our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law, not even someone with the name Trump." Trump nor the Trump Organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions. In a statement, James said: "The Trump Organization has continually sought to delay our investigation into its business dealings and now Donald Trump and his namesake company have filed a lawsuit as an attempted collateral attack on that investigation." "Her mission is guided solely by political animus and a desire to harass, intimidate, and retaliate against a private citizen who she views as a political opponent," the former president's lawyers wrote in the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Trump and his company, the Trump Organization. The lawsuit describes James, a Democrat, as having "personal disdain for Trump" and points to numerous statements she's made targeting him in recent years, including her support of "die-in" protests against him, her boast that her office sued his administration 76 times and tweets during her 2018 campaign that she had her "eyes on Trump Tower" and that Trump was "running out of time." 7 deposition, Trump contends the probe into matters including his company's valuation of assets has violated his constitutional rights in a "thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates." In the lawsuit, filed in federal court two weeks after James requested that Trump sit for a Jan. President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy as he seeks to end a yearslong civil investigation into his business practices that he alleges is purely political.
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