New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday that she has filed a civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his three grown children over his alleged long-running tax evasion scheme.
Prosecutors in New York have been investigating Trump’s real estate business practices for several years following reports that he routinely undervalued and overvalued assets to avoid paying his fair share of taxes. James said “an exhaustive three-year investigation” involved millions of documents and interviews with 65 witnesses.
“Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to enrich himself unjustly and to cheat the system, cheating us all,” James said at a news conference outlining the alleged wrongdoing. Trump’s behavior
Trump and Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump had been impeached as part of the James investigation, even though Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination more than 400 times.
James hopes to convince a court to take steps to stop the Trumps from doing business in New York state, along with paying a financial penalty.
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