STOP TRUMP FROM DELAYING PROBES, NY PROSECUTOR TELLS COURT

New York prosecutor on Thursday warned against allowing US President Donald Trump to run out the clock on the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal probe into Trump for paying off Stormy Daniels and for tax evasion, Jonathan Stempel and Karen Freifeld wrote for Reuters late on July 16, 2020.

Carey Dunne, general counsel for District Attorney Cyrus Vance, spoke at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan to discuss Trump’s renewed legal challenge to block or narrow Vance’s ability to see his tax returns.

The case concerns an August 2019 subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm Mazars USA for eight years of personal and corporate tax returns, related to Vance’s criminal probe into Trump and his Trump Organization.

Dunne told US District Judge Victor Marrero there are looming deadlines to prosecute cases because of statutes of limitations, and more delays could give Trump the “absolute temporary immunity” the US Supreme Court has rejected. “Let’s not let delay kill this case,” Dunne said. “Justice delayed becomes justice denied.” Marrero approved a jointly negotiated schedule giving Trump until July 27 to file papers formally opposing the subpoena and its scope. Vance won’t enforce the subpoena through then. The hearing was held via teleconference.