Ivanka Trump wriggled out of being a defendant in the New York fraud case against her father, two brothers and the family’s real estate business, based on the statute of limitations, not as the result of any innocence. But she was a key player in the financial fraud the judge has already ruled was committed by her father and the company she and her brothers ran. So it’s no surprise that New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed Ivanka to testify in the ongoing trial.
As Insider reported, Ivanka’s lawyer filed an objection to her subpoena late Thursday, on the eve of the Friday deadline to object. Her lawyer called it overbroad and claimed it was invalid because the subpoena went to her three corporate offices, not her personal address.
It’s not surprising Ivanka is trying to avoid testifying. She surely has very damaging, inside knowledge of her family’s fraud. And by that I mean she was almost certainly part of it.
More from Insider:
Ivanka was Trump Org's executive vice president for development and acquisitions through 2016. In that role, she negotiated and secured hundreds of millions of dollars in financing for Trump's properties, including the Old Post Office hotel project in Washington, DC, the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, and the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami.
James alleges that Trump and his company used fraudulently exaggerated net-worth statements in winning favorable interest rates and other benefits from lenders, particularly Deutsche Bank, for which Ivanka Trump was her father's primary point-woman.
Will Ivanka find a way to avoid screwing her father, albeit not in the way he has so yearned for? Stay tuned.
