Ivanka Trump (from her Facebook page)
Ivanka Trump is still very much in legal trouble, even after hiring a new lawyer to defend her. Lawyers from the office of the New York State Attorney General are now charging that Trump is guilty of failing to obey lawful orders for the release of certain documents and other materials that have been subpoenaed. Forbes reported that the specific issue here has to do with e-mails from and/or to Ivanka prosecutors want handed over.
This is all part of a $250 million civil suit alleging fraud brought against the Donald Trump Family’s real estate businesses by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“Not only have defendants failed to offer any substantive response to this inquiry, but there have been no documents produced by Ms. Trump,” the attorney general’s office told Judge Arthur Engoron.
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“Defendants have either ignored the inquiries, provided non-substantive responses, or passed the buck to counsel no longer engaged in the case,” they said about Ivanka Trump and the others.
“The time to meet and confer on these issues has long since passed,” the New York Attorney General’s office continued. “The fairest and simplest way to resolve these issues is for Defendants to provide sworn certifications detailing the process they followed for preserving, searching and producing documents in response to [office of the attorney general] discovery notices.”
Ivanka Trump and the others were given until May 12 by the judge to comply with all subpoenas.
This news comes after Ivanka Trump recently made what was probably the wisest decision of her life. The former First Daughter dumped her family’s legal team and took on separate counsel for herself. She now has Bennet Moskowitz of the firm Troutman Pepper as her sole attorney on the case.
In March, one of Ivanka Trump’s previous attorneys wrote in a letter to the judge in the case, “The complaint does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed or certified any of her father’s financial statements. The complaint affirmatively alleges that other individuals were responsible for those tasks.”
