Battle for Trump's tax returns pits feds against state
Source: Associated Press
Jim Mustian, Associated Press Updated 8:27 pm CDT, Thursday, October 3, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top prosecutor pushed back against the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday in a legal battle over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, saying local efforts to investigate the president’s finances should be “free from federal interference.”
A day after federal prosecutors asked for a delay, District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. filed court papers saying the Justice Department is supporting Trump’s efforts to run out the clock on certain statutes of limitation that could affect a state grand jury investigation.
The move comes amid a deepening standoff in Washington after a government whistleblower alleged "inappropriate efforts to influence” the mandatory IRS audit program that’s looking into Trump’s tax returns and those of the vice president.
The chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., said the panel on July 29 received “an unsolicited communication from a Federal employee setting forth credible allegations of ‘evidence of possible misconduct’ — specifically, potential ‘inappropriate efforts to influence’ the mandatory audit program.”
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