Saturday, 12 September 2020 _US President Donald Trump has called on a federal appeals court to block what he described as a bad faith effort by Manhattan’s top prosecutor to obtain his tax returns.
A lower court judge has allowed Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to obtain eight years of business and personal tax returns from Trump’s longtime accounting firm Mazars USA.
In a filing with the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Friday, Trump’s lawyers said Victor Marrero, the lower court judge, erred in giving Vance a green light.
The Republican president has been fighting to block Vance’s subpoena for a year, including at the US Supreme Court, which last month rejected his argument that he has immunity from criminal probes while in the White House.
A lower court judge has allowed Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to obtain eight years of business and personal tax returns from Trump’s longtime accounting firm Mazars USA.
In a filing with the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Friday, Trump’s lawyers said Victor Marrero, the lower court judge, erred in giving Vance a green light.
The Republican president has been fighting to block Vance’s subpoena for a year, including at the US Supreme Court, which last month rejected his argument that he has immunity from criminal probes while in the White House.
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