Lawyers for Trump urge president’s accounting firm not to comply with House request
By Tom Hamburger Tom Hamburger Investigative reporter focused on the intersection of money and politics in Washington Email Bio Follow April 15 at 1:41 PM Attorneys for President Trump on Monday told an accounting firm working for the president that it would be improper to turn over tax documents to a House committee that is expected to issue a subpoena for the material.
The president’s lawyers — William S. Consovoy and Stefan Passantino — wrote that a subpoena from Cummings’s panel would be invalid “because it would have no legitimate legislative purpose.” The pressure on the accounting firm to resist the looming House subpoena comes after the Treasury Department missed an initial deadline to hand over Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, which then set another deadline of April 23.
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