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brooklynite

(94,503 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 03:44 PM Sep 2020

Judge orders Eric Trump to testify before election in New York attorney general probe of President T

Source: CNBC

Eric Trump must testify in response to a subpoena from the New York Attorney General’s office before the presidential election as part of an investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s company improperly valued real estate assets in official statements, a judge ordered Wednesday.

Eric Trump, who is the president’s middle son and a top executive in the Trump Organization, must testify no later than Oct. 7, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled after a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, where Trump’s lawyers had asked to delay his deposition until after the election.

Engoron noted that, “Mr. Trump cites no authority in support of his request, and at any event, neither petitioner nor this court is bound by timelines of the national election.”

Attorney General Letitia James’s office called the ruling a “major victory.”


Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/23/trump-subpoena-court-arguments-on-new-york-investigation-.html

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Judge orders Eric Trump to testify before election in New York attorney general probe of President T (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP
New York Judge Orders Eric Trump to Sit for Deposition in Fraud Investigation Before the Election Judi Lynn Sep 2020 #1
LOL 3 of us rushing! BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #3
Damn. I missed it by a second. BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #2
Drag him in C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #4
K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2020 #12
I hope he can't just blow the subpoena off. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2020 #5
I think he will "blow the subpoena off" but he will find that the penalty will be worse than any Stuart G Sep 2020 #7
I'd love to see one of these guys get the kind ot treatment most would get for their crap. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2020 #11
So can he just take the 5th and skate on out? rurallib Sep 2020 #6
Karma. Thirties Child Sep 2020 #8
But Hunter! Burisma! Obama! Zambero Sep 2020 #9
Oops. There goes the Hunter Biden narrative kurtcagle Sep 2020 #10
Drag him in in chains. paleotn Sep 2020 #13
And when he fails to honor it? BlueTsunami2018 Sep 2020 #14
What's the odds on him simply Miguelito Loveless Sep 2020 #15
I hope so. Wouldn't it be great if the Law and Order President's son ignores the subpoena and... tecelote Sep 2020 #17
its a state court rdking647 Sep 2020 #19
Wish the F.B.I. would raid him. They would surely find lots of tantalizing momentous Illumination Sep 2020 #16
Lock him up!!!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 #18
Absolutely. Lock him up. TNNurse Sep 2020 #21
He won't. nt doc03 Sep 2020 #20
Deer Juj Energon Grokenstein Sep 2020 #22
So what happens when someone tries to arrest him Retrograde Sep 2020 #23
Does it matter? reggaehead Sep 2020 #24
Its like what lions do when they attack the herd jcgoldie Sep 2020 #25

Judi Lynn

(160,524 posts)
1. New York Judge Orders Eric Trump to Sit for Deposition in Fraud Investigation Before the Election
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 03:45 PM
Sep 2020

MATT NAHAM
Sep 23rd, 2020, 3:30 pm



President Donald Trump‘s son, top Trump Organization executive Eric Trump, must sit for a deposition before the 2020 election, New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled on Wednesday.

The ruling came almost a week to the day that it was reported that Eric Trump would comply with a subpoena—but only after the election. It also comes a day after Trump family nemesis New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) cited a Fox News Radio interview, in which Eric Trump uttered the words “why would you possibly comply.”

. . .

“A judge just ruled that Eric Trump can no longer delay an interview under oath with my office as part of our ongoing investigation into financial dealings of the Trump Organization,” James noted. “Eric Trump must interview with my office by October 7th, 2020.”

Last week, the Trump Organization opposed a motion to compel Trump’s testimony by saying he has “made clear that he is willing to appear pursuant to the subpoena, and have also proposed four available dates after the Presidential election on November 3, 2020.”

More:
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/new-york-judge-orders-eric-trump-sit-for-deposition-in-fraud-investigation-before-the-election/

BumRushDaShow

(128,874 posts)
2. Damn. I missed it by a second.
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 03:46 PM
Sep 2020

I'll put it here anyway...

Judge orders Eric Trump to meet with N.Y. attorney general's investigators by Oct. 7
Source: Washington Post

NEW YORK — A state judge on Wednesday ordered Eric Trump to be deposed no later than Oct. 7 in the New York attorney general's examination of the Trump Organization's financial practices, rejecting a protest by President Trump's son who has said he is too busy to meet with investigators until after November's election.

The ruling was handed down by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron after nearly two hours of arguments in a lawsuit brought by state investigators conducting the civil investigation. The president’s company is managed by his two sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

“This court finds that application unpersuasive,” Engoron said, referring to Eric Trump’s stated need to put off an interview until mid-November. The judge added that he felt Eric Trump’s attorney had cited no legal authority to support the bid for a delay. “In any event, neither petitioner nor this court is bound by timeliness of the national election,” the judge added. An attorney for Eric Trump said during the hearing that the president’s son travels nearly seven days a week to make appearances on behalf of his father’s campaign.

The lawsuit was filed in August as lawyers in the state attorney general’s office reached a roadblock with lawyers for the Trump Organization, Eric Trump and lawyers for other potential witnesses related to testimony and documents that had not been turned over. Authorities have said the Trump Organization of potentially misleading lenders and duping taxing authorities, a probe that could result in civil penalties. The attorney general’s office began investigating the company after the president’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a former executive with the company, gave Congress copies of financial statements from 2011 to 2013.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/eric-trump-new-york-attorney-general/2020/09/23/5970bb24-fd44-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html

Stuart G

(38,419 posts)
7. I think he will "blow the subpoena off" but he will find that the penalty will be worse than any
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 03:53 PM
Sep 2020

testimony that he will give.

kurtcagle

(1,602 posts)
10. Oops. There goes the Hunter Biden narrative
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 03:57 PM
Sep 2020

Hard to make a case that your opponent's son is corrupt when yours is being escorted into the AG's Office by armed guards.

paleotn

(17,911 posts)
13. Drag him in in chains.
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 04:18 PM
Sep 2020

So much for HunterUkranianfantasyland as a strategy for the fascists.

From here on out I'm calling them exactly what they are. All of them. From Ron Johnson to your crazy, trumptrash uncle. They ceased to be the Republicans long ago. They are simply the fascists.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
17. I hope so. Wouldn't it be great if the Law and Order President's son ignores the subpoena and...
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:33 PM
Sep 2020

...we get to see him dragged to court in cuffs?



 

rdking647

(5,113 posts)
19. its a state court
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:45 PM
Sep 2020

a judge could order his arrest for contempt and theres a very good chance he would be arrested in whatever state he's in and brought to NY in cuffs.

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
16. Wish the F.B.I. would raid him. They would surely find lots of tantalizing momentous
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 05:31 PM
Sep 2020

information revelations!...

Grokenstein

(5,722 posts)
22. Deer Juj Energon
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:04 PM
Sep 2020

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Retrograde

(10,133 posts)
23. So what happens when someone tries to arrest him
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:12 PM
Sep 2020

He has Secret Service protection: do his assigned agents attempt to stop the arrest, or do they let the law take its course? And if he goes to jail do they have to go with him? I think I'm gonna need more popcorn as this plays out.

reggaehead

(269 posts)
24. Does it matter?
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 12:25 AM
Sep 2020

The fact that there is a warrant for his arrest will be all over National News. It would be awesome if he didn't show. Blow up Barr's October surprise.

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