New York — Donald Trump looks set to be deposed Wednesday in New York as part of the state attorney general’s civil probe into alleged fraud at his family business, the ex-president said on his social media network.
The deposition comes on the heels of a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on Trump’s Florida residence in an escalation of legal probes into the 45th president that has set off a political firestorm.
The FBI declined to provide a reason for the raid, but US media outlets said agents were conducting a court-authorized search related to the potential mishandling of classified documents that had been sent to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House in January 2021.
New York Attorney General Letitia James suspects the Trump Organization fraudulently overstated the value of real estate properties when applying for bank loans while understating them with the tax authorities to pay less in taxes.