曼哈顿地区检察官办公室周五敦促法官驳回总统唐纳德·特朗普他声称对他的纳税申报单的传唤过于宽泛,意在进行骚扰。
地方检察官办公室传唤了特朗普的会计师事务所马扎尔斯(Mazars),索要价值8年的总统个人和企业申报表,作为调查向涉嫌婚外情的女性支付封口费的一部分。特朗普长期以来一直否认这一点。根据之前的法庭文件,调查正在调查银行和税务欺诈。
地方检察官办公室在给法官的一封信中写道:“原告的第二次修正诉状没有包含支持他的立场的充分辩护的指控,即马扎尔的传票是过虑的或者是恶意发出的。”
检方指控特朗普的法律团队在最高法院裁定传票可以继续后,试图撤销传票,做出了“不合逻辑的推理跳跃”。
曼哈顿地区检察官赛·万斯(Cy Vance)的总法律顾问凯里·邓恩(Carey Dunne)写道:“原告关于传票被过度传唤以及本办公室的不诚信的毫无根据的断言,太不可思议,也太不合理,无法提出索赔。”
特朗普上个月提起诉讼,对传票提出质疑,地方检察官办公室正寻求驳回传票。此前,美国最高法院裁定,总统在任期间不能免于州刑事调查,尽管该裁定允许他以其他理由质疑传票。
Judge asked to reject Trump's claim subpoena for tax returns is too broad
The Manhattan District Attorney's office on Friday urged a judge to reject PresidentDonald Trump's claim that a subpoena for his tax returns is overly broad and intended to harass.
The DA's office subpoenaed Trump's accounting firm, Mazars, for eight years' worth of the president's personal and business returns as part of an investigation into hush payments to women who alleged affairs, which Trump long has denied. The investigation is looking into bank and tax fraud, according to previous court filings.
"Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint contains no well-pleaded allegations supporting his position that the Mazars Subpoena is overbroad or was issued in bad faith," the DA's office wrote in a letter to the judge.
Prosecutors accused the Trump legal team of making "illogical inferential leaps" in their attempt to quash the subpoena after the Supreme Court ruled it can proceed.
"Plaintiff's unfounded assertions regarding the subpoena's overbreadth and this Office's bad faith are too incredible and unreasonable to state a claim," wrote Carey Dunne, general counsel for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.
Trump filed a lawsuit last month challenging the subpoena, which the DA's office is seeking to dismiss. The lawsuit came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the president was not immune from state criminal investigations while in office, though the ruling allowed him to challenge the subpoena on other grounds.