The New York state attorney general, Letitia James, is conducting a civil inquiry into the same allegations, and some of her lawyers are participating in the criminal inquiry. Earlier this month, her office deposed Mr. Trump, who declined to answer questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, leaving the attorney general to decide whether to file a lawsuit against the former president.
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Mr. Trump’s refusal to answer questions came on the heels of the F.B.I. search of his Florida home as part of an unrelated criminal investigation. He also faces scrutiny in Washington, D.C., and in Georgia for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In Manhattan, the investigation has long presented a significant threat to Mr. Trump. For years, Mr. Vance’s prosecutors sought his tax returns, a battle that reached the Supreme Court twice. Before the court ruled in the district attorney’s favor, Bloomberg News reported on some of the perks that Mr. Weisselberg had received, leading prosecutors to more closely scrutinize the chief financial officer’s conduct.
In the indictment, prosecutors said that Mr. Weisselberg avoided reporting his perks to tax authorities, and that they were not reflected in the Trump Organization’s general ledger, even though they were tracked on spreadsheets within the company.
Even after his indictment, Mr. Weisselberg refused to cooperate against Mr. Trump as the office continued its investigation into the former president. Before leaving office at the end of the year, Mr. Vance directed prosecutors to begin presenting evidence about the former president to a grand jury.
Mr. Bragg was sworn in on Jan. 1, and after weeks of meetings about the case, he developed concerns about proving that Mr. Trump had intended to commit a crime. The grand jury stopped hearing evidence, and in February, the two prosecutors leading the investigation resigned, leaving the investigation’s future uncertain.

Source: New York Times

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