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https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-ac...l-disclosures-longer-relied/story?id=82886011
Mazars effectively resigned as the Trump Organization's accountant, saying, "Due in part to our decision regarding the financial statements, as well as the totality of the circumstances, we have also reached the point such that there is a non-waivable conflict of interest with the Trump Organization. As a result, we are not able to provide any new work product to the Trump Organization."
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However, the New York Attorney General seized on the letter as reason why a judge should order compliance with a series of subpoenas issued to the company and personally to Trump, his eldest son Donald Jr., and his eldest daughter Ivanka.
"This development further reinforces what OAG's previous submissions already showed: The Court should order Respondents' compliance with OAG's document and testimonial subpoenas," the attorney general's office said in a filing Monday.
Monday's AG filing also makes mention of the recent flap over Trump's purported destruction of documents as asserted by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
"Given reports concerning Mr. Trump's destruction of documents covered by the Presidential Records Act, he should be ordered to comply with Instruction 3 in the subpoena entitled 'Documents No Longer in Your Possession,' requiring a sworn statement regarding how documents were destroyed and by whom," the filing said.
Mazars effectively resigned as the Trump Organization's accountant, saying, "Due in part to our decision regarding the financial statements, as well as the totality of the circumstances, we have also reached the point such that there is a non-waivable conflict of interest with the Trump Organization. As a result, we are not able to provide any new work product to the Trump Organization."
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However, the New York Attorney General seized on the letter as reason why a judge should order compliance with a series of subpoenas issued to the company and personally to Trump, his eldest son Donald Jr., and his eldest daughter Ivanka.
"This development further reinforces what OAG's previous submissions already showed: The Court should order Respondents' compliance with OAG's document and testimonial subpoenas," the attorney general's office said in a filing Monday.
Monday's AG filing also makes mention of the recent flap over Trump's purported destruction of documents as asserted by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
"Given reports concerning Mr. Trump's destruction of documents covered by the Presidential Records Act, he should be ordered to comply with Instruction 3 in the subpoena entitled 'Documents No Longer in Your Possession,' requiring a sworn statement regarding how documents were destroyed and by whom," the filing said.
