On February 22, local time, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected former President Trump’s motion to request the confidentiality of his tax returns, clearing the way for New York prosecutors to obtain Trump’s eight-year tax returns and other financial records.
Previously, Trump's team of lawyers fought for more than a year to prevent state prosecutors from controlling the president's financial records.
At present, New York prosecutors are investigating a series of potential criminal activities by the Trump Organization, including financial, insurance and bank fraud.
However, these documents will be restricted by the grand jury's confidentiality rules and will not be released publicly in the short term.
In a statement posted on the social networking site Twitter on the 22nd, the prosecutor for the Manhattan District of New York and Democrat Vance wrote: "The work is still going on." Vance spokesman Danny Frost said, The prosecution will not comment further, but will act quickly to execute a subpoena against Mazars USA, the accounting firm employed by Trump.
Trump said in a statement that Vance's investigation is "the continuation of the largest political persecution in American history."
He added: “The Supreme Court should not have allowed this kind of'phishing law enforcement' to happen, but they did. No president has ever experienced such a thing. All this is driven by the Democratic Party, in New York City, which is completely controlled by the Democratic Party. And New York State, completely controlled and dominated by my open political enemy-Governor Cuomo."
(Producing Li Jiali)
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]