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+ The revelation signals that the criminal case surrounding the Tr*mp organization is moving to a more advanced stage. + The investigation is being led by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office, and has evolved into a criminal case, looking into Tr*mp's real estate company's financial practices and how money moved between higher-ups at the organization. The investigation has looked into Tr*mp's tax returns, and is delving into how the organization filed reimbursements to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. + Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that Vance's office had convened a special grand jury for the case, which will consider whether there is enough evidence to justify bringing charges against Tr*mp. The grand jury is set to meet three days a week, for between three and six months. + The move signals that with a longer jury, the DA's office may continue to call witnesses over the timeline of the case.Investigators have also taken a series of steps to analyze the finances of Tr*mp Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. Prosecutors have subpoenaed his and his family's financial records, and are looking into the perks he may have arranged for his son Barry, who is a longtime Tr*mp Organization employee.

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+ The news comes weeks after it was revealed that Michael Cohen, former pres-ident Donald Tr*mp's one-time personal attorney, had been interviewed multiple times by Manhattan's district attorney. + The district attorney's criminal inquiry has focused on whether the Tr*mp Organization -- an umbrella company for the former president's business interests -- engaged in tax and insurance fraud, among other crimes. + Speaking to Insider, Cohen said his former boss should expect more bad news. "As more documents are reviewed by the NYAG and NYDA, it appears that the troubles for Donald Tr*mp just keep on coming," he said. "Soon enough, Donald and Associates will be held responsible for their actions," Cohen added. + Attorney General Letitia James's office had been working with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's Office since 2019. Vance is looking at documents

including Tr*mp's tax returns to see if the former president's organization misled lenders about the value of their properties and paid appropriate taxes. + Last week (10 to 14 May 2021), prosecutors from Vance's office subpoenaed Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, an elite private school attended by Tr*mp Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's grandchildren. The children's mother, Jennifer Weisselberg, previously told Insider that Tr*mp would include school tuition in compensation packages to her husband, Barry Weisselberg. + Prosecutors are looking into whether including tuition in the compensation package allowed Barry or Allen Weisselberg to avoid paying taxes. + A spokesperson for the former president did not immediately return a request for comment.

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+ The FEC voted 4-1 to close the probes after failing to find that Tr*mp or his campaign "knowingly and willfully" violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing an alleged affair. + Cohen was convicted in 2018 of lying to Congress, tax evasion and other charges relating to the payments to Daniels and other women. He served three years in prison. His attorney said Cohen testified in court that the payment was made "for the principal purpose of influencing an election." + The FEC's Office of General Counsel issued a report in December 2020, finding that there was "reason to believe" that Cohen and the Tr*mp campaign knowingly and willfully violated campaign finance law. However, the FEC said that it failed by a 2-2 vote to prove any of the parties violated campaign finance law. + The panel's two Republican commissioners, Allen Dickerson and Sean

Cooksey, wrote in a statement that they thought Cohen already had been punished criminally and the matter was "not the best use of agency resources." + "The public record is complete with respect to the conduct at issue in these complaints, and Mr. Cohen has been punished by the government of the United States for the conduct at issue in these matters," Dickerson and Cooksey wrote. + In a separate statement, Democratic commissioner Ellen Weintraub and Commission Chair Shana Broussard said the probe should have been continued after the general counsel said there was reason to believe campaign finance law was broken. "To conclude that a payment, made 13 days before Election Day to hush up a suddenly newsworthy 10-year-old story, was not campaign-related, without so much as conducting an investigation, defies reality," the commissioners wrote. + During an appearance on Cohen's podcast "Mea Cupa" in February (2021), Cohen apologized to Daniels for the "needless pain" that was caused involving the payments. Daniels since has sued Tr*mp for defamation over his denial of her allegations and the hush money scandal.

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+ “It has to do with (Tr*mp’s) finances, it has to do with his tax returns, it has to do with his properties, it has to do with the personal financial statements that he had made and provided in order to obtain loans," Cohen said on CBSN Thursday. + A number of investigations could cause legal trouble for Mr. Tr*mp after he leaves office in January, including potential congressional inquiries as well as probes by the attorneys general of New York and Washington, D.C. and the Manhattan district attorney. + Cohen said he had been questioned by the state attorney general's team and the district attorney's office and claimed investigators are "well-prepared" with their evidence to "move relatively quickly" in their probes.

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+ Michael Cohen, former personal attorney and fixer for Donald Tr*mp, laid bare his ex-boss’s penchant for lying on Thursday’s episode (6-24-2021) of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” + The former pres-ident “lied every day” and even on “the very first time I ever met him,” Cohen told host Jimmy Kimmel. + Tr*mp, according to Cohen, claimed during their first meeting to have given him a “great deal” on an apartment in one of his buildings. But Cohen said he’d actually paid the market price. + Kimmel asked Cohen to recall Tr*mp’s dumbest lie.“It’s hard to say,” he replied. “I mean almost everything that came out of his mouth was actually

stupid. Many of us had to spend so much time each and every day covering up for the ridiculous.” + “I mean, talk about stupid, let’s talk about the bone spurs,” Cohen continued, referencing Tr*mp’s disputed decades-old claim for a medical exemption from the Vietnam War draft. + “It’s one of the stupidest lies that he ever had me deal on his behalf. We know that there were no bone spurs, we know it’s an absolute lie,” said Cohen, who is currently serving a three-year sentence (at home because of the coronavirus pandemic) for lying to Congress about the Russia probe and violating campaign finance laws. He is now one of Tr*mp’s most vocal critics. + “The part that bothered me the most about it, is after we would meet say a wounded veteran, the only thing that this idiot would turn around and say is, ‘Why would anybody go to war? Look at what happened and look at how they’re coming back. I mean, not me. I wouldn’t do it,’” Cohen added.

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+ Prosecutors have increased the frequency of their interviews with Cohen since they began in the fall of 2019 soon after the district attorney's office subpoenaed Tr*mp's accountant for his taxes.Cohen, who worked for Tr*mp for about a decade and once said he would take a bullet for Tr*mp, knows the inner workings of the company. Prosecutors are interested in speaking with Cohen because he can help explain the culture of the company and the relationships between Tr*mp, his family, and Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Tr*mp Organization. + Prosecutors are investigating whether the Tr*mp Organization improperly inflated the value of its assets when dealing with lenders and insurance companies and deflated them when filing taxes. They also are investigating tax deductions taken on fees paid to consultants, including Ivanka Tr*mp, the

former pres-ident's daughter, and conservation easements given on Seven Springs, a family estate in Westchester County, NY. + The investigation is also looking into a $130 million loan for a Chicago property. In addition, they also are looking into hush-money payments Cohen facilitated to silence two women who alleged affairs with Tr*mp. ... + Cohen told Congress that Tr*mp inflated and deflated the value of certain assets to obtain loans and lower his tax bill. He also was involved in the hush-money payment scheme and pleaded guilty to nine charges, including campaign finance violations, in connection with the scheme. + Investigators met with Cohen three times in late 2019 while he was serving time at a federal prison in Otisville, NY. The meeting Friday (3-19-2021) is believed to be the first meeting that will be in person at the DA's office, according to a person familiar with the matter. Cohen has been serving the remainder of his sentence from him home in Manhattan. + The district attorney's' investigation has gained momentum this year. In February, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney, recruited Mark Pomerantz, a well-regarded former federal prosecutor, to shepherd the investigation. Pomerantz has spent decades as a defense lawyer working on financial investigations and has an insight into how those cases are brought and how corporations and individuals defend against them. They also brought in an outside forensic accounting firm. + Vance's office last month, after a 16-month court battle, gained access to eight years of Tr*mp's personal and business tax returns and related records. Investigators have been pouring over the records, which total in the millions of pages. + Vance is not running for re-election and, people familiar with the matter say, he is likely to decide whether to charge a case before he leaves office in December. The decision could still be months away, according to people familiar with the matter.

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+ In a recent interview with Cohen, investigators asked questions about Tr*mp's Seven Springs estate as part of an inquiry into whether the value of the 213-acre Westchester County property was improperly inflated to reduce his taxes. + Investigators asked Cohen about individuals involved in the appraisal of the estate and benefits derived from its valuation, including a $21 million income tax deduction. + Cohen was released to home confinement last year amid coronavirus fears, and his recent meetings have been conducted via video conference.

+ Vance's office declined to comment, as did Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis. A message seeking comment was sent to the Trump Organization. + Vance announced last week that he would leave office at the end of the year and not seek reelection, but in a memo to staff, he stressed that the investigation wouldn't stop.“The work continues,” Vance wrote, echoing his short statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that he could have Tr*mp's tax records. + Vance recently hired former mafia prosecutor Mark Pomerantz — who, as a federal prosecutor, oversaw the prosecution of Gambino crime boss John Gotti — as a special assistant district attorney to assist in the wide-ranging probe of Tr*mp's finances. + The inquiry, according to court filings, includes an examination of whether Tr*mp or his businesses lied about the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits. The district attorney also is scrutinizing hush-money payments paid to women on Tr*mp’s behalf. + After a lengthy legal battle, his office is now in possession of eight years of Tr*mp’s tax records, including final and draft versions of tax returns, source documents containing raw financial data and other financial records held by his accounting firm. + Vance’s focus on Seven Springs involves an environmental conservation arrangement Tr*mp made in return for a tax deduction at the end of 2015, following failed attempts to turn the property into a golf course and luxury homes. + Tr*mp granted an easement to a conservation land trust to preserve 158 acres (60 hectares) and received a $21 million income tax deduction, equal to the value of the conserved land, according to records. The amount was based on a professional appraisal that valued the full Seven Springs property at $56.5 million as of Dec. 1, 2015. + That amount was a much higher amount that the evaluation by local government assessors, who said the entire estate was worth $20 million. Tr*mp bought the property, including a palatial Georgian-style mansion that once belonged to the family of newspaper publisher Katharine Graham, for $7.5 million in 1995. + In a sign of prosecutors' deepening interest in Seven Springs, Vance's office has sent new subpoenas in recent weeks to local governments in the towns the property spans — Bedford, North Castle and New Castle — following up on an initial round of subpoenas issued in mid-December.

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