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More subpoenas, the dam appears to be breaking and the new AG is yet to be confirmed.
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The House reissued a subpoena for Trump's tax records (businessinsider.com)

With New York clearing the way, the House reissued a subpoena for Trump's tax records

• The House Oversight Committee reissued a subpoena for former Trump's accounting firm, Mazar USA.
• They are seeking eight years of Trump's financial records.
• Last week, The Supreme Court paved the way for the Manhattan DA's office to access the records.

The House Oversight Committee reissued a subpoena for former President Donald Trump's accounting firm last week, House counsel Doug Letter said in a filing on Tuesday.

Congressional investigators are working to get eight years of Trump's tax records from Mazars USA.

The House's initial subpoena was rejected by the Supreme Court in July, Politico reported. However, last week, the US Supreme Court, after stalling for nearly four months, rejected Trump's efforts to keep his tax returns hidden from the Manhattan District Attorney.

For the past five years, Trump refused to release his tax records and has gone to great lengths to try and keep them a secret.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. launched an investigation into Trump's financial records in 2017.

That Supreme Court ruling in Vance's favor has made it easier for the Oversight Committee to reissue its subpoena.

Democrats have said that Trump's tax records were necessary so they could come up with financial disclosure legislation for future administrations., Politico reported. They suspect that his tax filings would show potential conflicts of interest and inappropriate foreign ties.

"For more than 22 months, the Committee has been denied key information needed to inform legislative action to address the once-in-a-generation ethics crisis created by former President Trump's unprecedented conflicts of interest," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House Oversight Committee, said in a memo sent to the Committee.

She added: "The Committee's need for this information — in order to verify key facts and tailor legislative reforms to be as effective and efficient as possible — remains just as compelling now as it was when the Committee first issued its subpoena, and the Committee's legislative efforts remain just as critical to the American people as they were before President Trump vacated the White House on January 20, 2021."

Trump election fraud investigation heads to grand jury in Georgia

A criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia is set to intensify this week, as a grand jury convenes, offering the local district attorney her first shot at seeking subpoenas for records and interviews.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made her investigative intentions clear with a round of letters to Georgia state officials in February, asking them to preserve documents relevant to election interference as she investigated potential state crimes including the solicitation of election fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering.

According to the letters, none of the Georgia officials are targets of the investigation.

"What I was doing, as a courtesy to people that I respect very much, is simply putting them on notice that when a grand jury convened, which would be in March, that they could expect to receive subpoenas," Willis told MSNBC in February.
Two grand juries are set to convene in Fulton County on Thursday, opening a path for Willis' next phase in her probe. A person familiar with the investigation said they are likely to rely heavily on subpoenas rather than voluntary requests for records and interviews, in part to establish a clear court record of their pursuit of evidence.

In the meantime, some officials in Georgia have already hired personal attorneys amid the fallout from Trump's efforts to upend the election results.

While Willis' investigation launched from the now-infamous call in which Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" him enough votes to win the state, it's expected to stretch well beyond that single call.

"There may be nothing there," said a person familiar with the investigation, "or it may be more extensive that we thought."

Looks like they are gonna squeeze the weasel till he squeals! I'd say it's safe to say they've got Donald's bean counter by the balls and his lawyer Michael Cohen as an eager witness, among others, then there's all those documents with his signature on them... The rats in the Trump organization will be running and squealing on this one and when you cut a deal with prosecutors you must confess any other crimes you have knowledge of. It will be take the fall for Donald and with him, or join the traffic jam at the prosecutors door. One thing leads to another with these things and the state will turn over anything related to federal crimes and there were plenty of those as well.

Donald won't be picking a new running mate for 2024, someone will be picking a cellmate for him. Seriously though, Donald will have a private cell, I believe they call it solitary confinement. Wait for the trials and the hundreds of death threats the judge and jury will receive when they convict him. By the time they sentence him this will be taken into account when they determine where he does his time and being a terrorist threat, he will do maximum security time, Sing sing in NY.
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Prosecutors May Flip the Trump Organization Employee Who Knows Where All the Bodies Are Buried | Vanity Fair

PROSECUTORS MAY FLIP THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION EMPLOYEE WHO KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BODIES ARE BURIED
Donald Trump’s chances of staying out of prison just took a nosedive.

Last month Donald Trump got several pieces of bad news re: avoiding prosecution for his cornucopia of alleged crimes. First, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office hired Mark Pomerantz, the guy who successfully put away John Gotti and others involved in organized crime. Worse, his tax returns were finally handed over to the D.A.’s office after the Supreme Court rejected his bid to keep them under lock and key, a development he reacted to with the tone of a guy who’s committed all manner of fraud and is terrified to get caught. Now the team working around the clock to put him away has apparently zeroed in on the Trump Organization employee who knows where all of his financial bodies are buried, and the possibility of his talking is presumably keeping Trump awake at night.

The Washington Post reports that Cyrus Vance’s office is “delving deeply into the personal and financial affairs” of Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization. The questioning is being led by Pomerantz, with the goal of flipping Weisselberg and convincing him to become a witness against Trump. (During his years as a mob prosecutor, Pomerantz undoubtedly got who knows how many people to “snitch.”) Per the Post:

Vance’s focus on Weisselberg has included questions related to two of his adult children, a tactic that could be an effort to increase pressure on the elder Weisselberg. One of Weisselberg’s sons also works for the Trump Organization, where he manages the company’s Central Park ice rinks. Another Weisselberg son works for a company that has extended loans to the Trump Organization.... Typically, efforts to flip witnesses have two parts: First, prosecutors work to build evidence that a witness may have their own legal liabilities. They then try to convince the witness to save themselves by turning on a higher-up. The person with knowledge of the case said investigators were trying to “cast a wide net...looking to shake the tree a little bit.”
In this case prosecutors have scrutinized Weisselberg’s work in helping to assess the value of Trump buildings as the company sought to obtain loans or property tax reductions, people familiar with the investigation said. They have also asked about a Trump-owned luxury apartment where Weisselberg’s son Barry lived for several years. The exact nature of Vance’s interest in the apartment is not known, but if Barry Weisselberg, who manages Trump’s ice skating rinks, got the apartment rent-free, that might be considered a fringe benefit of his job and subject to income tax. Two people with knowledge of the district attorney’s probe said the team has also been analyzing the finances of the cash-only skating rink where Barry Weisselberg works. At the same time investigators have asked detailed questions about Allen Weisselberg’s financial history and his feelings about Trump, according to people familiar with the investigation.

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The D.A.’s criminal investigation, which began in 2018, initially focused on the hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in the run-up to the 2016 election, but has since expanded to include possible crimes like insurance and tax fraud. Weisselberg has kept Trump’s books since the ’80s and became CFO of the family business in 2000, once describing himself in a deposition as Trump’s “eyes and ears...from an economic standpoint.” Or as a former Trump employee put it to the Post, “Allen is in charge of everything.”

In addition to asking questions about Weisselberg’s financial history, lifestyle, and relationship with Trump, investigators have reportedly been focusing on the Trump Parc East building where Weisselberg’s son Barry lived for several years; last year his ex-wife told Bloomberg that they lived there for free, believing at the time that it was a wedding present from Donald and Melania Trump. (IRS rules state that an apartment provided for free by an employer typically is subject to income tax, and a person familiar with the matter told the Post that prosecutors have been analyzing Barry Weisselberg’s tax returns.) Additionally, attorneys from Vance’s office have asked witnesses about more than $270 million in loans made to the Trump Organization by Ladder Capital, which employs Weisselberg’s other son, Jack Weisselberg. It’s not clear at this time what testimony, if any, Allen Weisselberg has provided to the D.A.’s office, although the bad news for Trump is that he does not appear opposed to talking:

In the past...Weisselberg has provided testimony to government investigations into Trump’s financial dealings. In 2017, Weisselberg spoke to investigators for a New York attorney general investigation of Trump’s charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. He told them that the charity’s board never met, that the charity had “no policy” for determining whether its spending followed nonprofit laws, and that the charity had been co-opted by Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, in violation of a ban on mixing charities and politics. The attorney general later used Weisselberg’s testimony against Trump, in a lawsuit that ended with a New York judge ordering Trump to pay a $2 million penalty.
And Weisselberg also accepted a deal from federal prosecutors focused on [Michael] Cohen’s hush money payments, in which Weisselberg testified about others in exchange for immunity for himself. Prosecutors were interested in the Trump Organization’s reimbursement of Cohen for the hush money payments…Cohen later pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to those payments.

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Vance declined the Post’s request for comment, as did the Trump Organization and Mary Mulligan, an attorney for Weisselberg. Jack Weisselberg told the Post he was declining to comment on both his and his brother Barry’s behalf. A person familiar with the Trump Organization said the company is confident its “practices for assessing the value of property fall within industry norms for New York City,” and that Weisselberg will remain loyal.

"A person familiar with the Trump Organization said the company is confident its “practices for assessing the value of property fall within industry norms for New York City,”

Industry norms in New York City? That sounds bad right off the bat.

Trump presses GOP to stop using name for fundraising
Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill that lawyers for Trump sent cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

The three groups are the largest fundraising bodies for the Republican Party.

“President Trump remains committed to the Republican Party and electing America First conservatives, but that doesn’t give anyone - friend or foe - permission to use his likeness without explicit approval,” a Trump adviser told Politico, which was the first to report on the letters.

The move came the same day the RNC sent two emails to supporters looking for donations in the form of a thank-you card to Trump.

“President Trump will ALWAYS stand up for the American People, and I just thought of the perfect way for you to show that you support him!” one email reads. “As one of President Trump’s MOST LOYAL supporters, I think that YOU, deserve the great honor of adding your name to the Official Trump ‘Thank You’ Card.”

Oh how sweet it is.

Squeeze the weasel and the feds can use him after they are done.
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Accountant faces pressure to turn on Trump in criminal probe | Reuters

Accountant faces pressure to turn on Trump in criminal probe

(Reuters) - When lawyers asked Donald Trump more than a decade ago to identify who estimated values on some of his signature properties, he shrugged and pointed to his longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg.

“I think ultimately probably Mr. Weisselberg,” he said, testifying in 2007 in a defamation lawsuit he brought against a journalist, a case that hinged on whether Trump had inflated the value of his business empire. “I never got too much involved, other than I would give my opinion.”

A judge dismissed that suit, but Trump’s comments illustrate the challenges now facing Weisselberg, 73, as he comes under scrutiny in Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s investigation into whether the former U.S. president and his Trump Organization committed financial crimes.

Few people have been as deeply involved in Trump’s finances as Weisselberg, a trusted figure in Trump’s family business who began working for Trump’s father, Fred, in 1973 at the company’s Brooklyn office, paying bills and tracking the rental payments from apartment towers.

Legal experts and a source familiar with the criminal investigation say prosecutors’ apparent goal is to convince Weisselberg to cooperate with the probe into Trump’s dealings.

“They want him to turn,” said the person familiar with the investigation.

A spokesman for Vance declined to comment. Lawyers for Weisselberg and Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

The Manhattan district attorney said in an August filing that the office is investigating “possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct” at the Trump Organization, though he has not fully disclosed the scope of the probe. In a September filing, he said “mountainous” misconduct allegations could justify a grand jury probe into possible tax fraud, insurance fraud and falsifying business records.

Vance’s office and a separate civil probe by New York Attorney General Letitia James are both examining whether Trump misrepresented the value of his assets for tax benefits, among other potential violations.

Weisselberg’s unique position in the Trump Organization puts him among a small number of people who could provide prosecutors with crucial evidence of intent to commit fraud. Legal experts say Trump may try to put distance between himself and any controversial valuations of his properties and businesses by citing Weisselberg’s role as financial gatekeeper, as he did in the 2007 defamation case.

“It may very well be that Weisselberg will be Trump’s defense in a criminal case,” said Michael Bachner, a defense attorney who once worked as a prosecutor with Vance in the Manhattan office.

If Trump argues that he merely relied on the advice of his accountants and lawyers, Weisselberg could be in the position of having to take the heat himself for any potentially fraudulent dealings, Bachner said - unless the accountant makes a deal with prosecutors and implicates Trump.

“If I’m Trump, I’ve got to be nervous about this,” he said.

The source familiar with the investigation said that, in addition to scrutinizing Weisselberg, prosecutors also asked questions about his sons, who also had connections with Trump: Jack Weisselberg, a director at Ladder Capital - a real estate investment firm that’s been a creditor for four Trump properties - and Barry Weisselberg, who managed skating rinks under Trump contracts with New York City.

Ladder Capital did not respond to requests for comment. Other Ladder executives, but not Jack Weisselberg, appear on loan documents involving Trump.

Jack and Barry Weisselberg did not respond to requests for comment.

UNIQUE POSITION OF TRUST
On March 1, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Trump’s last-ditch effort to keep his tax records private, Vance’s office obtained millions of pages of records on Trump’s taxes and finances. His office has also added a prosecutor experienced in organized crime and corruption, Mark Pomerantz, to the Trump investigation team, and interviewed staff at Ladder Capital.

As the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer and executive vice president, Weisselberg developed a unique position of trust with Trump, according to interviews with four former Trump Organization officials. The accountant handled Trump’s personal finances as well as the company’s most sensitive financial information, the officials said.

Barbara Res, Trump’s former construction manager, said Weisselberg was part of the Trump family’s inner circle, but he kept an unassuming profile. “He was the only one of the executives who would refer to Donald as Mr. Trump,” she said. “He was that kind of guy.”

Res said Trump trusted Weisselberg as a pair of eyes to make sure Trump’s other accountants and lawyers were doing their jobs. “Allen wouldn’t go outside the company,” she said. “Allen wouldn’t talk; Allen could be trusted to keep things quiet.”

When Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, arranged for a hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, Weisselberg was involved in cutting the checks, Cohen testified in a February 2019 hearing held by a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Weisselberg obtained limited immunity from federal prosecutors to provide information in the investigation that targeted Cohen; he was not charged with wrongdoing. Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations.

Vance could seek a court order granting him access to Weisselberg’s testimony in the federal case against Cohen, legal experts said.

During the 2019 committee hearing, Cohen identified Weisselberg as one of the Trump executives who knew that Trump inflated assets in statements to insurance companies for the purpose of reducing premiums. In response to questions from Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cohen said he could not confirm a New York Times report on whether Trump under-reported values on inherited real estate to reduce his taxes.

“Who would know the answers to those questions?” she asked.

“Allen Weisselberg,” Cohen said.

"I'm 73, enjoyed a good life, so had my family. If I knew my family was taken care of I could sit in prison and wait for a pardon"

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"I'm 73, enjoyed a good life, so had my family. If I knew my family was taken care of I could sit in prison and wait for a pardon"

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He doesn't give a fuck about his family, he does care about the humiliation of a court trial and imprisonment. I don't think anybody is gonna pardon him in NY state and he will be dead in prison before another republican is elected as POTUS. Living in a cell wearing an orange jumpsuit and being America's biggest loser is what bothers him the most, from the white house to the big house, via the courthouse. No club fed either, it will be maximum security time, the hundreds of death threats the judge and jury will receive will insure it.

They are a cult of personality, remove the personality and the cult fades away.

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He doesn't give a fuck about his family, he does care about the humiliation of a court trial and imprisonment. I don't think anybody is gonna pardon him in NY state and he will be dead in prison before another republican is elected as POTUS. Living in a cell wearing an orange jumpsuit and being America's biggest loser is what bothers him the most, from the white house to the big house, via the courthouse. No club fed either, it will be maximum security time, the hundreds of death threats the judge and jury will receive will insure it.

They are a cult of personality, remove the personality and the cult fades away.

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Sorry, should have identified Weisselberg as age 73.

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Sorry, should have identified Weisselberg as age 73.

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The weasel will crack or he might have the big one and die, they are going after his kids and there is something to go after too. He will cut a deal and throw Donald under the bus if he doesn't die from the stress, the cases against Trump are too strong and they don't really need him to nail Donald, there are other witnesses and plenty of documents.

Now why was Donald back in NYC? Grand jury testimony? Trying to get the weasel not to squeal? Why did he have to show up in the big apple?
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Trump spotted outside Trump Tower in NYC trip (nypost.com)

Trump spotted outside Trump Tower in first NYC trip since leaving office

Former President Donald Trump was spotted outside Trump Tower Sunday night in his first visit back to the Big Apple since leaving office.

Trump pulled up to the Midtown skyscraper where he stays while in Manhattan just before 9 p.m.

He was seated in a backseat of a black SUV. Upon his arrival, he waved to a lone Trump supporter who was across the street next to the media.

The NYPD last month began removing some of the barriers in front of Trump Tower, which were erected four years ago when Trump entered the White House.

Born in Queens, Trump, who became a real-estate developer in Manhattan, switched his residency to his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, in October 2019.

The tiny handed tyrant known as Stinky only has one real agenda now, REVENGE. Anyone that knows Stinkys history knows about his ENEMIES LIST. Basically if you don't bend the knee to Stinky when called upon to so, you're on the list. If you haven't noticed he's already hard at work getting rid of the governor of New York, he hopes to get a republican into Cuomo's office to pardon him there. The only way the tiny handed tyrant will stop is by dying, if he's imprisoned he will direct his cult to carry out his vengeance from prison.

Yep, I'm sure his arrest and trial will be a hot topic on Facebook and twitter, but I don't think Donald will be on either platform.
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Trump planning a spectacular return to social media, top advisor says (businessinsider.com)

Trump plans a spectacular return to social media by the end of spring, top advisor says

• Trump will come back to social media by the end of spring, top advisor Jason Miller said Saturday.
• Miller told Mediate that Trump's return "will be a tectonic plate shift in the world of social media."
• Trump will most likely be on alternative platforms as opposed to Twitter or Facebook, Miller said.

Former President Trump is planning to return to social media by the end of spring, probably on a non-mainstream platform, his senior advisor Jason Miller said on Saturday.

Speaking on an episode of Mediate's "The Interview" podcast, Miller said the Trump team has been having ongoing conversations "with both existing social media platforms and also potentially with some brand new platforms" since the former president was kicked off Twitter and Facebook after the deadly January 6 Capitol riots.

"We're not that far off from seeing President Trump return to social media," Miller said. "I think it will be on some new platforms that maybe you haven't seen before, and it will be a tectonic plate shift in the world of social media because anything that he touches is going to be big, so I think there's going to be some excitement on that front."

When asked whether Trump thinks mainstream platforms would invite him back, Miller said he "would never shut the door completely on anything" but that the likelihood is low.

"I'm sure Jack [Dorsey] will probably shut the door completely to a Twitter return and Zuckerberg...we'll see what happens in April with this advisory board review from Facebook."

In January, The Facebook Oversight Board announced it would begin accepting public feedback on the social media giant's suspension of former President Trump.

The board said it would issue a decision on Trump's fate within 90 days of January 21, The Verge reported.

Meanwhile, Twitter executives said in February that Trump's ban is permanent and will stay in place even if he runs for the White House again.

"I'm sure Jack [Dorsey] will probably shut the door completely to a Twitter return and Zuckerberg...we'll see what happens in April with this advisory board review from Facebook."

In January, The Facebook Oversight Board announced it would begin accepting public feedback on the social media giant's suspension of former President Trump.

The board said it would issue a decision on Trump's fate within 90 days of January 21, The Verge reported.

Meanwhile, Twitter executives said in February that Trump's ban is permanent and will stay in place even if he runs for the White House again.

Miller said the "details and fleshed out" statements have allowed the team to "start adding in policy specifics."

I don't think we'll ever be able to fathom what a gnarly little wart Trump really is. The fool can afford to eat the best food on the planet yet he almost exclusively ate fast food slop with a Coke his whole life. Just that alone shows what an undeveloped boorish lout he is. The planet already was in a horrible shape 4 years ago and the whole world just wasted all that time gawping at what shocking tripe that swinish orange baboon will blurt out on national television next... His lardass has wrecked enough. I hope that he dies slow, in the most horrible pains and that his entire family + the Kushner clan goes broke like sewerrats. Preferably before the next election.

Stinky only had 1 supporter show up to cheer on his New York city return.

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Feds Closing In On Citizen Trump? Top Racketeering Attorney Tapped For Election Probe

As Georgia’s Republican-controlled state Senate passes a bill that would dramatically roll back voting rights, citizen Trump is facing a criminal investigation in the state for election interference. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal to discuss the prosecutor’s decision to tap one of the country’s top racketeering attorneys for the case and what this means for Trump now that he’s out of office.

Perhaps expands is a poor choice of words, soon it will be explodes once they get into the dirty details of the Trump Org. There will be more crimes than they can count and it will all be turned over to the feds and congress one day. They can take their time to investigate and indict him for the insurrection after he has a few criminal convictions and is serving time.
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NYC prosecutors' probe into Trump finances expands

The Manhattan district attorney's office subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned the Trump Organization millions of dollars for its Chicago skyscraper in a sign that the investigation into the former president's finances continues to expand, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Donald should be talking to a grand jury soon, I wonder if that's why he's really in NYC, shit he risks arrest and being purp walked in NYC.
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Trump visiting NYC to check on Trump Organization: source - New York Daily News (nydailynews.com)

Trump in NYC to ‘look under the hood’ of his businesses as prosecutors probing fraud turn up heat: source

Donald Trump is in New York City this week to get up to speed about the ins and outs of his embattled namesake company, a person close to him said Monday, as the former president and his business associates remain in the crosshairs of multiple state prosecutors.

The Queens-born ex-president, who was spotted arriving at his Trump Tower apartment in Midtown on Sunday night, has recently expressed interest in reengaging with the Trump Organization, and “a major part” of his Big Apple trip is about that, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

“He’s quite curious about his businesses and his employees, his organization, and is eager to look under the hood,” the source told the Daily News. “He’s not entirely sure of the role he will play, but he misses it, for sure.”

Trump, a full-time Florida resident, is expected to stay in the city until Tuesday.

Details about whom Trump is meeting with during the visit were not immediately known. His spokesman Jason Miller did not return a request for comment.

Trump retained ownership stake in the Trump Organization throughout his presidency, but delegated day-to-day management to his two oldest sons. The real estate and hospitality biz, which has been hard-hit financially by the pandemic, remains headquartered in Trump Tower, where the ex-president was expected to stay for the duration of his visit.

Although Trump is not expected to meet with any prosecutors while in the city, his trip comes as Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. and state Attorney General Letitia James are cranking up the heat in their respective investigations of the former president.

Vance, who’s investigating whether Trump and his company committed criminal insurance, bank and tax fraud by misrepresenting the value of assets, has directed his prosecutors to meet in person with Michael Cohen, the ex-president’s former personal lawyer, on Wednesday, a source familiar with the probe told The News.

Wednesday’s sitdown will mark Cohen’s seventh interview with the DA’s team, and one of his first in-person meetings, suggesting he’s of key interest to Vance.

Separately, Vance has put intense pressure on Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer.

In addition to scrutinizing Weisselberg’s role in Trump-linked potential wrongdoing, Vance has asked questions about his two adult sons, according to multiple reports — a tactic often used by prosecutors seeking to get a witness to cooperate in an investigation in exchange for leniency.

“They want him to turn” on Trump, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Sunday.

James is also investigating Trump for fraud, but on a civil level. Her office recently obtained reams of tax records from the Trump Organization relating to its Seven Springs estate in Westchester County, where the company once claimed an enormous $21.2 million tax deduction.

Spokesmen for Vance and James declined to comment Monday on Trump’s New York visit.

Remember the photo of my pillow guy with his WH meeting notes that they managed to partly photograph?
Well the FBI is gonna want to see those notes Mike, if he destroyed evidence, it's a pretty hefty prison sentence, they will want to see the documents in the photo.