NEW YORK — A real-estate services firm long used by Donald Trump’s company is refusing to comply with subpoenas for records about appraisals on three properties at the center of a state probe into the former president’s business, New York investigators told a judge.
Cushman & Wakefield, which severed ties with Trump last year, is wrongfully challenging demands for records issued in September and February, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a Manhattan court filing Friday. The state is investigating Trump’s use of potentially misleading asset valuations for financial gain.
James asked a state-court judge to issue an order forcing Cushman to comply with the subpoenas. Her request comes a day after the attorney general asked the same judge to hold Trump in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 a day until he complies with a subpoena for his own records. A hearing on the contempt issue was set for April 25.
