The following article by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott with ProPublica and Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz with WNYC was posted on the ProPublica website October 4, 2017:
This article is a collaboration between ProPublica, WNYC and The New Yorker and is not subject to our Creative Commons license.
In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., found themselves in a precarious legal position. For two years, prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was failing to sell. Despite the best efforts of the siblings’ defense team, the case had not gone away. An indictment seemed like a real possibility. The evidence included emails from the Trumps making clear that they were aware they were using inflated figures about how well the condos were selling to lure buyers. Continue reading “Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud”