TRUMP CORRUPTION INDEX
This Week in Trumpland Corruption: The Big Apple Bites Back
The Manhattan DA says it has grounds to investigate the president for tax fraud and the Qatari government is paying Trump for unused office space
Is there enough graft, double-dealing, and self-interested chicanery in the Trump administration to publish this column every week? Only time — and Trump — will tell. (But we feel pretty confident.) Presenting this week’s installment of the Trump Corruption Index.
A dogged DA’s afternoon
The Manhattan district attorney’s office suggested in a court filing on Monday that it has grounds to investigate President Donald Trump for tax fraud. The office of DA Cyrus Vance, which has been looking into the president’s business dealings for over two years, said news reports and public testimony provided grounds for a grand-jury inquiry for crimes including insurance and tax fraud. Vance’s office issued a subpoena last year for eight years of the president’s personal and corporate tax returns; the federal appeals court issued a stay order request on Trump’s returns earlier this month as he appeals a lower court decision that granted the subpoena in the first place.
