N.Y. Attorney General Seeks to Hold Trump in Contempt

The New York State legal professional normal, Letitia James, filed a movement on Thursday asking a choose to carry Donald J. Trump in contempt for failing to show over paperwork in her civil investigation into his enterprise actions.

The request by attorneys in Ms. James’s workplace, which was filed in New York State Supreme Court docket in Manhattan, mentioned that the previous president had declined to show over paperwork that the legal professional normal had sought in eight requests. The submitting additionally requested the choose to high quality Mr. Trump $10,000 a day till he turns over the supplies.

The submitting cited a response from Mr. Trump’s authorized staff arguing that the legal professional normal’s requests have been “grossly overbroad, unintelligible, unduly burdensome” and didn’t “adequately” describe the requested supplies.

In a press release, Eric Trump, one among Mr. Trump’s grownup kids, accused Ms. James of political bias, saying she was “going after my father as a result of he’s main in each single ballot.”

And a spokeswoman for the Trump Group referred to as Ms. James’s transfer “baseless,” saying the corporate had already supplied paperwork in response to the legal professional normal’s requests and referring to the investigation as a “witch hunt.”

The State Supreme Court docket Justice overseeing the authorized dispute over the paperwork, Arthur F. Engoron, will rule on whether or not to carry Mr. Trump in contempt and whether or not to evaluate any doable fines.

The movement is the most recent authorized skirmish in Ms. James’s civil investigation into Mr. Trump and his household enterprise. Just lately, Justice Engoron ordered Mr. Trump and two of his different grownup kids, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., to undergo questioning by the legal professional normal’s workplace. Attorneys for the Trump household have appealed that call.

As a result of Ms. James’s investigation is civil, it may well result in a lawsuit however not legal fees. She has mentioned in different court docket papers that her workplace had obtained proof exhibiting that Mr. Trump’s household enterprise, the Trump Group, had engaged in “fraudulent or deceptive” practices.

The legal professional normal’s workplace can also be concerned in a legal investigation into Mr. Trump that’s centered on a number of the identical conduct and is being carried out by the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace. The 2 senior prosecutors main that investigation resigned in February after a disagreement with the district legal professional, Alvin Bragg, about whether or not to proceed a grand jury presentation regarding Mr. Trump. Mr. Bragg’s workplace has mentioned that the investigation is ongoing.