NEW YORK — Donald Trump and two of his children urged a judge to reject subpoenas for their testimony in New York’s civil probe of the former president’s company, arguing it overlaps too much with a parallel criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney.
The subpoenas by New York Attorney General Letitia James seek to dodge the grand jury protections “guaranteed to every witness” while she is “entwined in a criminal grand jury investigation of the very same matters,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba said in a filing late Tuesday. Habba said an earlier filing by James defending the subpoenas “deliberately avoids addressing the extent” of her coordination with the DA’s office.
If James’s investigators want the testimony, “they can call these witnesses before the very grand jury they are utilizing,” she said.
