Trump Isn’t Immune From Demand for Tax Records, Judge Rules
- President wins last-minute delay from federal appeal court
- Manhattan D.A. is looking into hush payments to women
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President Donald Trump’s accounting firm was ordered by a federal court to turn over his tax filings and other financial records to New York state prosecutors, though the president won a last-minute delay pending an emergency appeal.
A federal judge in New York ruled early Monday that Trump can’t stop his accountants, Mazars USA LLP, from turning over eight years of taxes and other financial documents to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., whose office is investigating whether the Trump Organization falsified business records related to hush payments. The judge called Trump’s claims of immunity “repugnant” to the U.S. Constitution.