Explainer: What legal problems does U.S. presidential candidate Trump face? - Reuters

Nov 15 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump, who connected Tuesday announced helium volition tally again for the White House successful 2024, faces a bid of investigations and lawsuits.

MISSING GOVERNMENT RECORDS

The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a transgression probe of Trump for retaining authorities records, including immoderate marked arsenic classified, aft leaving bureau successful January 2021.

The FBI seized 11,000 documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida successful a court-approved Aug. 8 search. About 100 documents were marked arsenic classified, and immoderate were designated apical secret, the highest level of classification.

Trump, a Republican, has accused the Justice Department of engaging successful a partisan witch hunt.

A peculiar master, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, is reviewing the seized documents to find whether immoderate are protected by enforcement privilege, arsenic Trump has claimed.

Executive privilege is simply a ineligible doctrine nether which a president tin support definite documents oregon accusation secret.

The Justice Department has asked a national appeals tribunal to extremity that reappraisal and reconstruct its entree to unclassified materials taken successful the search, arguing that some measures are hindering the transgression investigation.

NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL CIVIL LAWSUIT

New York Attorney General Letitia James said successful a civilian suit filed successful September that her bureau uncovered much than 200 examples of misleading plus valuations by Trump and the Trump Organization betwixt 2011 and 2021.

James, a Democrat, accused Trump of inflating his nett worthy by billions of dollars to get little involvement rates connected loans and get amended security coverage.

A New York justice ordered that an autarkic show beryllium appointed to oversee the Trump Organization earlier the lawsuit goes to trial.

James is seeking to permanently barroom Trump and his children Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump from moving companies successful New York state, and to forestall them and his institution from buying caller properties and taking retired caller loans successful the authorities for 5 years.

James besides wants the defendants to manus implicit astir $250 cardinal that she says was obtained done fraud.

Trump has called the lawyer general's suit a witch hunt. A lawyer for Trump has called James' claims meritless.

James said her probe besides uncovered grounds of transgression wrongdoing, which she referred to national prosecutors and the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service for investigation.

NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBE

The Trump Organization is connected proceedings connected New York taxation fraud charges, successful a transgression lawsuit brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The company, which operates hotels, play courses and different existent property astir the world, has pleaded not blameworthy to 3 taxation fraud charges and six different counts. It could look up to $1.6 cardinal successful fines.

Trump is not charged with wrongdoing.

Allen Weisselberg, the company's erstwhile main fiscal officer, has pleaded guilty and is required to attest against the Trump Organization arsenic portion of his plea agreement. He is besides a suspect successful James' civilian lawsuit.

DEFAMATION CASE

E. Jean Carroll, a erstwhile Elle mag writer, sued Trump for defamation successful 2019 aft helium denied her allegation that helium raped her successful the 1990s successful a New York City section store. Trump accused her of lying to drum up income for a book.

Trump appeared for a deposition successful the lawsuit connected Oct. 19, according to his and Carroll's lawyers.

Trump has argued that helium is shielded from Carroll's suit by a national instrumentality that immunizes authorities employees from defamation claims.

The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals successful September said Trump was a national worker erstwhile helium called Carroll a liar, but left unfastened the question of whether helium was acting arsenic president erstwhile helium made the statement.

A Washington, D.C., appeals tribunal volition see that question successful oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 10, 2023.

Carroll besides plans to sue Trump for artillery and intentional infliction of affectional distress nether New York authorities law, adjacent if the defamation suit is dismissed.

U.S. CAPITOL ATTACK

A House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, battle by Trump supporters connected the U.S. Capitol is investigating whether helium broke the instrumentality successful actions taken to effort to overturn his 2020 predetermination defeat. Rioters sought to artifact Congress from certifying the predetermination results.

In October, Trump was subpoenaed by the committee to attest nether oath and supply documents.

Committee vice seat Liz Cheney, a Republican, has said the committee could marque referrals to the Justice Department seeking transgression charges against Trump.

Only the Justice Department tin determine whether to complaint Trump with national crimes. The sheet is expected to contented written findings successful the coming weeks.

Trump has called the panel's probe a politically motivated sham.

GEORGIA ELECTION TAMPERING PROBE

A peculiar expansive assemblage was empanelled successful May for a Georgia prosecutor's enquiry into Trump's alleged efforts to power that state's 2020 predetermination results.

The probe focuses successful portion connected a telephone telephone Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, connected Jan. 2, 2021. Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" capable votes needed to overturn Trump's predetermination nonaccomplishment successful Georgia.

Legal experts said Trump whitethorn person violated astatine slightest 3 Georgia transgression predetermination laws: conspiracy to perpetrate predetermination fraud, transgression solicitation to perpetrate predetermination fraud and intentional interference with show of predetermination duties.

Trump could reason that his discussions were constitutionally protected escaped speech.

In a abstracted lawsuit, a California national justice said connected Oct. 19 that Trump knowingly made false elector fraud claims successful a Georgia predetermination lawsuit, citing emails the justice reviewed.

Reporting by Luc Cohen successful New York and Jacqueline Thomsen successful Washington; Additional reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Ross Colvin, Noeleen Walder, Will Dunham and Daniel Wallis

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