By: Jared Evan
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. emphasized the broad scope of the grand jury investigation as he battles to get access to eight years of financial records related to Trump and his business empire, Politico reported
What Trump supporters and objective political analysts have been calling the “witch hunt” against the president, has been intense and in action even before Trump was in office, as we have learned from the investigations into the precursor to Mueller’s Russia investigation. From Stormy Daniels to Ukraine and the nonstop drum beat for Trump to release his taxes, the political maneuvering against Trump has not subsided even for a moment.
Vance Jr’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s finances goes beyond ‘hush money’ payments during the 2016 campaign and includes allegations of bank and insurance fraud, according to a recent court filing.
Politico reported: A grand jury subpoenaed that information last fall, but Trump filed a federal lawsuit to block the subpoena and unsuccessfully pressed the challenge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Last month, the justices unanimously rejected Trump’s bold claim that — for as long as he serves as president — records about him are absolutely immune from demands by state or local prosecutors.
However, the Supreme Court said Trump can challenge the subpoena on other grounds. His attorneys did so last week, arguing that the subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm Mazars sweeps too broadly.
“Plaintiff’s argument that the Mazars Subpoena is overbroad fails for the additional reason that it rests on the false premise that the grand jury’s investigation is limited to so-called ‘hush-money’ payments made by Michael Cohen on behalf of Plaintiff in 2016,” Vance wrote in response to the challenge. “This Court is already aware that this assertion is fatally undermined by undisputed information in the public record.”
