Shock and Law

“In a court filing this week, prosecutors with the district attorney’s office cited ‘public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization’ and suggested that they were also investigating possible crimes involving bank and insurance fraud.” Trump’s Bank Was Subpoenaed by N.Y. Prosecutors in Criminal Inquiry. (A lot more is at stake for Trump than the White House gig.)

+ Biden on Trump’s legal issues: “Look, the Justice Department is not the president’s private law firm. The attorney general is not the president’s private lawyer. I will not interfere with the Justice Department’s judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law.” (Most of the cases are at the state and city level anyway…)

+ And the investigations know no borders. The Biggest Trump Financial Mystery? Where He Came Up With the Cash for His Scottish Resorts. “Scottish lawmakers are pushing to peer into Trump’s finances using an anti-money-­laundering statute typically employed against kleptocrats, oligarchs, and crime kingpins.”