Supreme court rejects Trump’s bid to keep tax returns from New York prosecutor
Trumps effort to conceal his tax returns from prosecutors has been brought to the supreme court once before
Washington — Donald Trump suffered a major setback on Monday in his long effort to conceal details of his finances as the US supreme court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain the former president’s tax returns and other financial records as part of a criminal investigation.
The justices without comment rebuffed Trump’s request to put on hold an October 7 lower court ruling directing the Republican businessman-turned-politician's accounting firm, Mazars, to comply with a subpoena to turn over the materials to a grand jury convened by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance, a Democrat...
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