‘Trump, Don Jr, Ivanka must testify in probe’

Bloomberg

Former President Donald Trump must testify under oath in New York’s “well founded” probe of his company, a state appeals court ruled.
The appellate panel in Manhattan upheld a lower-court ruling from February, rejecting Trump’s argument that New York Attorney General Letitia James opened the investigation because she’s politically biased.
James, who is probing potentially fraudulent asset valuations at the Manhattan-based Trump Organization, only started the probe after Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified to Congress in 2019 that the company “had issued fraudulent financial statements,” the appeals court said.
“This sequence of events suggests that the investigation was lawfully initiated at its outset and well founded,” the court held.
The ruling, the latest of several recent setbacks for Trump in the case, could still be appealed to New York’s highest court in Albany.
The decision applies to the depositions of Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, who were originally supposed to be questioned in June.
Trump was held in contempt of court in April for failing to comply with James’s subpoena for his records and paid a $110,000 fine.