Federal prosecutors in New York are seeking to interview executives from the Trump Organization, the multi-billion dollar privately-held real estate company started by President Donald Trump’s father nearly a century ago, and run currently by his family.
CNN, which broke the news Tuesday afternoon, just hours before the President will deliver the State of the Union address, reports the move signals “a growing potential threat to President Donald Trump and those in his orbit from criminal investigations by the Manhattan US Attorney’s office.”
The line of inquiry is not known, CNN notes, and the CNN report does not name which executives New York prosecutors have requested to interview. While the CNN report does not name Trump’s adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are Executive Vice Presidents and trustees running the company while their father is President of the United States.
While unrelated, Monday night The Washington Post reported federal prosecutors issued a “sweeping subpoena for documents from [the] Trump inaugural committee, a sign of a deepening criminal probe.”
“The subpoena — issued by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York — indicates that prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud and money laundering,” the Post reports.
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