INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York’s attorney general on Wednesday pounced on former President Donald Trump’s defense of company’s financial statements, saying the five-page statement Trump issued a day earlier contradicted a court filing by his attorneys…
Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a probe into whether the Trumps inflated real estate values to obtain bank loans, and reduced values to lower tax bills…
On Monday [February 14, 2022], the attorney general’s office made public a Feb. 9 letter from Trump’s longtime accountant, Mazars, which said the Trump Organization’s financial statements for 2011 through 2020 should no longer be relied on and that it would no longer do work for the former president’s New York-based real estate business.”
-Reuters, “N.Y. attorney general fires back at Trump’s defense of financial statements,” nbcnews.com, February 16, 2022