LEGAL/TRUMP TAXES: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been locked in a yearlong legal battle with President Trump over obtaining his tax returns, suggested for the first time in a court filing on Monday that it had grounds to investigate him and his businesses for tax fraud…
[P]rosecutors listed news reports and public testimony that alleged misconduct by Mr. Trump and his businesses. The reports, prosecutors wrote, would justify a grand jury inquiry into a range of possible crimes, including tax and insurance fraud and falsification of business records. It was the first time the office had suggested tax fraud might be among the possible areas of investigation.”
-Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum, “Trump Could Be Investigated for Tax Fraud, D.A. Says for First Time,” nytimes.com, Sep. 21, 2020