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Donald Trump will face an expanded criminal probe in New York when his term as president ends at midnight on Wednesday, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal that the newspaper is billing as an exclusive.
"Manhattan prosecutors have subpoenaed records relating to President Trump's sprawling Seven Springs estate north of New York City, according to people familiar with the matter, expanding the known scope of the only publicly disclosed criminal investigation into the president and his business," WSJ correspondent Corinne Ramey reported.
<p>"Some of the information requested by Manhattan prosecutors relates to the president's valuation of Seven Springs, which he bought for $7.5 million in 1995 and in 2012 said was worth almost $300 million as he tried to develop it into a luxury residential community. Inflating assets to help secure loans or other financial benefits can be a state criminal offense, legal experts said. Prosecutors from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in recent weeks have sent subpoenas to local officials in the three Westchester County towns—New Castle, North Castle and Bedford—in which the Seven Springs estate sits, the people said. The people said the subpoenas request tax assessments, email correspondence, planning-board materials and other documents about the 213-acre property, with a mansion built in 1919 for former Federal Reserve chairman Eugene Meyer," The Journal reported.</p><p>In October, <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-under-investigation-for-improperly-inflating-value-of-land-deal-that-got-him-a-21-million-tax-break/" target="_blank">Eric Trump sat for a deposition</a> in the investigation.</p><p>"Mr. Vance's office has said in court filings seeking Mr. Trump's tax records that it is investigating possible bank, tax and insurance fraud. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mr. Vance is entitled to obtain the records, though the president's lawyers have blocked their release so far with a second appeal to the high court on different grounds," The Journal reported. "The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, which is also investigating Seven Springs as part of a civil-fraud probe, has said it determined Mr. Trump's statements of financial condition were provided to financial institutions, according to court documents the attorney general's office has filed in connection with its probe."</p><p>Read the <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/judge-orders-the-trump-organization-to-cooperate-with-ny-attorney-generals-fraud-investigation/" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p><p><br/></p>
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My Pillow guy Mike Lindell briefed Trump -- about what he was missing on Twitter: report
January 15, 2021
On Friday, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell was spotted heading into the West Wing of the White House.
Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford captured a photo of the document Lindell brought with him. "Martial law if necessary" was part the document that was visible. There was also a section crossed out.
<p>Now more is coming out about the document from New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.</p><p>"I got a bit more information about the Lindell meeting. It was a brief meeting, Trump sent him upstairs to the WH counsel's office to be escorted by an admin official sitting next to Lindell in the meeting. That official, according to another official, was [National Security Advisor] Robert O'Brien," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350249367605813250" target="_blank">reported</a>. </p><p>The crossed out section of the document referred to Pat Cipollene, the White House counsel who has reportedly told Trump he will not help during the second impeachment trial.</p><p>"Once up there, he insisted on meeting with Cipollone. It got contentious, in part bc supposedly on the blacked-out part of his notes was something about how Cipollone should be fired," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350249903101005824" target="_blank">explained</a>.</p><p>The briefing was necessary because of Trump's ban from Twitter?</p><p>"Lindell tells me that he was carrying the notes for an attorney he's been working with to prove the election was really won by Trump, wouldn't say who it was. Said some of it related to reports Trump is now unable to see because he doesn't have Twitter," she <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350250142029508609" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p><p>Lindell is apparently at odds with some in the administration.</p><p>"Lindell insists the papers he was holding, which were photographed and visible, didn't reference 'martial law.' An administration official says they definitely referenced martial law," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350250598998958080" target="_blank">noted</a>. "But an administration official says Trump wasn't really entertaining what Lindell was saying. Lindell also seemed frustrated he wasn't getting more of a hearing."</p>
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Capitol Police warned of attack on Congress: 12-page report came out 3 days before the riots
January 15, 2021
More reporting continues to come out about what law enforcement knew before the fatal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"Three days before thousands of rioters converged on the U.S. Capitol, an internal Capitol Police intelligence report warned of a violent scenario in which 'Congress itself' could be the target of angry supporters of President Trump on Jan. 6, laying out a stark alert that deepens questions about the security failures that day," The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig reported Friday evening.
<p>"In a 12-page report on Jan. 3, the intelligence unit for the congressional police force described how thousands of enraged protesters, egged on by Trump and flanked by white supremacists and extreme militia groups, were likely to stream into Washington armed for battle," Leonnig reported. "This time, the focus of their ire was members of Congress, the report said."</p><p>The report directly linked overturning the election results to the insurrection. </p><p><span></span>"Supporters of the current president see January 6, 2021, as the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election," the memo read. "This sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more of an incentive to become violent. Unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters as they were previously, but rather Congress itself is the target on the 6th."</p><p>The news follows previous reporting that <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-2649915101/" target="_blank">the FBI issued a dire warning the day before the attack</a>. </p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="71a5a0485e1de9c15f74fdff66e7d836" id="d94fc"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350245290025086976"><div style="margin:1em 0">SCOOP O'Clock: In eerily-worded Jan 3 memo, Capitol Police's intel unit predicted every grim thing that happened in… https://t.co/3kUIZfqg0Q</div> — Carol Leonnig (@Carol Leonnig)<a href="https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/statuses/1350245290025086976">1610758538.0</a></blockquote></div>
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