US President Donald Trump sits behind stacks of confiscated drugs while attending a briefing on SOUTHCOM Enhanced Counternarcotics Operations at the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Doral, Florida, US, Jul 10, 2020. (Photo: by=REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] New York City prosecutors are very likely to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns after a major US Supreme Court ruling, but it may not happen before the Nov 3 election if he argues in lower courts as expected that their request was too broad and made in bad faith, legal experts said. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is seeking eight years of Trump's business and personal tax returns and other financial documents as part of a criminal investigation involving a grand jury into the Republican president and the Trump Organization, his family's real estate business.
"I believe the district attorney and the grand jury will get the requested documents, but not right away," said Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York and a former federal prosecutor. "We have many weeks and months of further litigation ahead." Trump has refused to release his tax returns as other presidents have done and sued to try to block enforcement of subpoenas by Democratic lawmakers and prosecutors for his financial records.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against Trump's bid to block Vance's subpoena to Trump's accounting firm Mazars USA for the financial records, rejecting the president's claim of absolute presidential immunity from criminal proceedings.Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan said that prosecutors might obtain the tax returns from Mazars in late 2020 or early 2021.