根据一份新的法庭文件，纽约总检察长办公室正在敦促一家上诉法院执行一份传票，要求前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)和他的两个最大的孩子在一项民事调查中作证，该调查正在调查特朗普家族房地产业务中是否存在欺诈行为。
这位前总统及其长子小唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump Jr .)和伊万卡·特朗普(Donald Trump)已要求上诉庭的第一部门撤销传票，称一旦曼哈顿地区检察官办公室启动平行刑事调查，传票就变得不合适了。
副检察长埃里克·德尔·波佐(Eric Del Pozo)在周二提交的一份动议中写道，“法律中没有任何内容支持这一结果，这将不允许地限制纽约首席执法官总检察长从法律赋予她的调查工具和补救措施中进行选择的自由裁量权。”。“民事传票不会强迫上诉人提供可能在未来的刑事案件中对他们不利的信息。”
特朗普夫妇还辩称，传票是由纽约司法部长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯(Letitia James)的政治敌意驱动的调查结果，她的办公室拒绝了这一调查。
“司法部长办公室的民事调查是在一名公司内部人士宣誓作证说特朗普组织参与了广泛的欺诈后开始的，”周二的文件称。“这一事实，以及迄今为止收集到的可能存在商业欺诈的大量证据，充分支持了最高法院的裁定，即民事传票是有效且有充分依据的调查的一部分，而不是政治敌意的产物。”
川普的前私人律师迈克尔·科恩，2019年向国会作证这位前总统根据他是在寻求贷款还是税收减免，对他的房地产资产进行了不同的估价。
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在这张2021年1月4日的档案照片中，伊万卡·特朗普和他的弟弟小唐纳德·川普在听...
科恩向国会提供了特朗普财务报表的副本，他说这些报表歪曲了特朗普资产的价值，以获得贷款和保险的有利条款。
根据周二提交的文件，“到目前为止，调查发现了重要证据，这些证据可能表明，十多年来，这些财务报表依赖误导性的资产估值和其他虚假陈述来获得经济利益——包括贷款、保险和税收减免——条件比真实事实所保证的更有利。”
特朗普在上个月的一份声明中抨击了这项调查，此前纽约州最高法院法官亚瑟·恩戈伦(Arthur Engoron)裁定特朗普必须作证。
“她正在他们腐败的权限内做一切事情来干涉我的商业关系和政治进程，”他说詹姆斯。“这是历史上最大的政治迫害的延续——记住，由于法官和司法界对我的仇恨，我在纽约得不到公正的审理。这是不可能的!”
NY attorney general wants subpoena enforced against Trump, eldest children in civil investigation
The New York Attorney General's office is urging an appellate court to enforce a subpoena that requires former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children to testify in a civil investigation that’s examining whether there has been fraud within the Trump family real estate business, according to a new court filing.
The former president and his eldest children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have asked the Appellate Division’s First Department to quash the subpoenas, arguing they became improper once the Manhattan District Attorney’s office opened a parallel criminal investigation.
“Nothing in the law supports that outcome, which would impermissibly constrain the discretion of the Attorney General, New York’s chief law enforcement officer, to select from among the investigative tools and remedies conferred on her by statute,” Eric Del Pozo, the deputy solicitor general, wrote in a motion filed Tuesday. “Civil subpoenas do not compel appellants to provide information that may be used against them in a future criminal case.”
The Trumps have also argued the subpoenas result from an investigation driven by the political animus of New York Attorney General Letitia James, which her office rejected.
“Office of Attorney General’s civil investigation began after a corporate insider gave sworn testimony that the Trump Organization had engaged in widespread fraud," the filing Tuesday said. "That fact, along with the substantial evidence collected to date of possible business fraud, amply supports Supreme Court’s finding that the civil subpoenas are part of a valid and well-founded investigation rather than a product of political animus."
Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney,testified to Congress in 2019that the former president valued his real estate holdings differently depending on whether he was seeking loans or tax deductions.
Cohen provided Congress with copies of Trump’s financial statements that he said misrepresented the values of Trump assets to obtain favorable terms for loans and insurance.
“So far, the investigation has uncovered significant evidence potentially indicating that, for more than a decade, these financial statements relied on misleading asset valuations and other misrepresentations to secure economic benefits—including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions—on terms more favorable than the true facts warranted,” according to the filing Tuesday.
Trump, in a statement last month, blasted the probe following a ruling by Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York State Supreme Court that theTrumps must testify.
"She is doing everything within their corrupt discretion to interfere with my business relationships, and with the political process," he said of James. "It is a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in history -- and remember, I can’t get a fair hearing in New York because of the hatred of me by Judges and the judiciary. It is not possible!"
