A New York prosecutor has obtained copies of former US President Donald Trump’s tax records, after the Supreme Court this week rejected a last-ditch effort to prevent them from being handed over. District Attorney Cyrus R Vance Jr had been fighting for a year and a half for access to Trump’s tax records for a criminal grand jury investigation into his business dealings. Vance’s office issued a subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, in August 2019 seeking eight years of his tax returns and related documents. An appellate court rejected that argument and the Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene. The New York Times separately obtained years of Trump’s tax data and published stories last year detailing some of his finances, including that he paid just US$750 in federal income tax in 2017 and no income tax in 11 of 18 years because of major losses.

Source: Stuff February 25, 2021 16:07 UTC