In another attempt to get at the tax returns of fraudster and con man Donald "Individual-1" Trump, the Manhattan District Attorney's office has subpoenaed eight years of his tax returns and those of his organization. They have specifically issued a subpoena to Mazars USA, the longtime accounting firm that handles Trump's personal taxes and those of his often bankrupted organization.
Trump's legal team has vigorously fought any release of his tax returns, including a mandatory request from the House Ways and Means Committee, ignoring subpoenas despite Trump's false pledge during the 2016 campaign that he would release his tax returns. The Manhattan DA's subpoena was issued from a grand jury investigating Trump's illegal hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougall prior to the 2016 election:
"Prosecutors are looking into whether the Trump Organization filed any false business records in how it accounted for the reimbursement of the payments to Cohen, a source familiar with the matter told CNN last month after the Manhattan DA's office sent subpoenas to the Trump Organization and American Media Inc.
Those subpoenas sought communications between the company and representatives for Daniels and Karen McDougal, who also alleged to have an affair with Trump more than a decade ago."Don't expect to see any of these returns soon, given Trump's willingness to throw every legal obstacle in the path of investigators. There's something so damaging to Trump in those tax returns that it raises the question of what on earth exactly is he hiding?
