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The allegations are not hard to understand: Attorney General Letitia James’ petition describes why her office believes the Trump Organization consistently overstated the values of its properties, usually by tens of millions of dollars, for purposes of fraudulently obtaining bank loans, meeting insurance requirements, and taking larger deductions on its tax returns.
The attorney general’s petition also calls for Trump, and his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., to give deposition testimony, but James doesn’t have any real expectation that the depositions will bear fruit; son Eric Trump has already refused to answer questions in James’ civil investigation, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The part of the petition more likely to yield useful information is the request for documents, in which James lays out the foot-dragging, noncompliance and stubborn refusal of Trump and his companies to comply with the various subpoenas and court orders demanding production of documents, including emails and other internal communications.
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