Ivanka Trump Is Given A Deadline By Judge After Being Accused Of Running Away From Massive Fraud Lawsuit In New York
May 19, 2023 by Marissa Matozzo
New York Attorney General Letitia James is demanding that Ivanka Trump provide more information related to her involvement in the Trump Organization’s tax fraud lawsuit, which James is suing Donald Trump and his three eldest children (including sons Donald Jr. and Eric) for $250 million over.
A judge has given Ivanka a deadline to cooperate or face legal consequences. With her father being accused of either inflating or undervaluing assets for financial gain, Ivanka is now in the spotlight and being scrutinized for her role in the fraud scandal.
Last month, as Newsweek reports, James’ office wrote to New York Judge Arthur Engoron and asked him to intervene. She stressed that the defendants in the Trump Organization still had not given her the necessary information and required documents as part of the discovery process in a “timely and transparent fashion.”
The attorney general’s office also told the judge that along with the “more significant issues” in the Trump family’s inadequate response to the discovery process was an explanation in the “unexplained drop-off” in emails for Ivanka between 2014 and 2017.
James’ office pointed out that during the first nine months of 2014, the former first daughter’s volume of emails was an average of 1,218 emails per month. This figure, as Newsweek notes, “fell to 299 emails in October 2014, with an average of 242 emails through December 2015.” In 2016, she “averaged just 37 emails per month.”