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A New York state judge could send former President Donald Trump to jail if he refuses to comply with an investigation of the Trump Organization, legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday on CNN.

Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in favor of New York state attorney general Letitia James, who is pursuing a civil probe into the ex-president, and ordered Trump to pay $10,000 every day that he continues to defy the court's order.

A New York judge on Monday said that he would hold former President Donald Trump in civil contempt of court for failing to produce documents that were subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

At a hearing on Monday, Judge Arthur Engoron heard arguments that Trump should be held in contempt because he refused to turn over documents about his business dealings. The Trump Organization is suspected of fraudulently manipulating property values to obtain loans and tax deductions.

A hearing has been set for Monday morning to decide if Donald Trump should be held in contempt for not complying with a court order allowing New York investigators access to three mobile devices and multiple document storage sites containing information sought by the state.

According to a report from CBS, lawyers for the former president will be forced to explain why he missed a March 31 deadline to turn over subpoenaed material.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday issued a new statement attacking New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who is conducting a civil inquiry into alleged financial misconduct at the Trump Organization. In the statement, he referenced the April 12 shooting in Brooklyn that left 30 people injured.

“With the horrible Subway Shootings and Violent Crime in New York being at an all-time high, where people are afraid to walk the streets, the racist and highly partisan Attorney General of New York State, failed Gubernatorial candidate Letitia James, should focus her efforts on saving the State of New York and ending its reputation as a Crime Capital of the World," Trump said, "instead of spending millions of dollars and utilizing a large portion of her office in going after Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization (for many years!), who have probably done more for New York than virtually any other person or group, including employing many wonderful people and paying millions and millions of dollars in taxes."

Donald Trump complained about being under investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James in a statement emailed to reporters on Thursday.

"This Democrat prosecutorial misconduct began the second I came down the escalator in Trump Tower, and has continued in an attempt to silence a President who is leading in every single poll. Never before has this happened to another President, and it is an absolute violation of my civil rights. As President I had two jobs—to run our Country well, and to survive," Trump claimed, neglecting to mention the oath he took to defend the Constitution.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is asking the court to begin issuing fines to former President Donald Trump while he delays producing documents subpoenaed by the court.

James on Thursday asked a court to hold Trump in contempt for refusing to comply with a court order to produce the documents.

According to a report from Mary Claire Jalonick for the Associated Press, members of the House select committee investigating the Jan 6th insurrection -- and Donald Trump's part in it -- have been dropping hints about the possible criminal charges they could lodge against the former president when they wrap up their work.

With the investigation intensifying as more witnesses sit down with investigators, the AP report states observers are beginning to get a feel for the direction the inquiry is going.

Even though newly elected Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg rejected the advice of two prosecutors to indict former President Donald Trump for alleged financial crimes, the case can and should continue. That's the view of David Cay Johnston, Trump biographer and law lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law.

Writing in the New York Daily News, Johnston says that even though prosecutors Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne quit, "There is no reason for Bragg’s cold feet to be the end of the efforts to prosecute Trump and perhaps his confederates because New York Constitution and state statutes provide a simple way to revive this moribund criminal investigation. And there is nothing Bragg can do to stop it."

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday offered new details about how the Trump Organization for years allegedly falsified the value of various New York City properties to secure favorable loan terms and reduce tax obligations.

CNBC reports that in a filing New York state court, James says her office has “uncovered significant evidence” suggesting that the Trump Organization’s financial statements for more than a decade relied on misleading valuations of its real estate assets. The filing asserts that potentially misleading valuations “and other misrepresentations” were used by the company owned by former President Donald Trump “to secure economic benefits — including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions — on terms more favorable than the true facts warranted."

A judge in New York ruled this Monday that the Trump Organization must hand over documents that state Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed for her civil-fraud investigation of the company, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“I hope we are winding down this whole investigation,” New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron said Monday. “One thing all of us can agree on is we want this to end at some point.”

On Monday, POLITICO reported that New York Attorney General Letitia James now holds the likeliest key to holding former President Donald Trump responsible for his businesses' alleged accounting fraud, after Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and line prosecutors in the office split on whether to file criminal charges — but that some serious challenges remain.

"'She has her work cut out for her in terms of proving her case. And I think it’s an incredibly unusual case, in the sense that it has gotten so far in being able to take discovery of a former president,' said Joshua Schiller, a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, who has fought other cases with the state’s attorney general," reported Deanna Garcia. "One of the core questions in a potential lawsuit, he said, would be whether she can prove lenders and other parties relied on the misrepresentations and were swindled as a result. 'The defense is probably working on a set of witnesses that can say it wasn’t material to us whether that information was correct or not.'"