New York depositions of Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. have been delayed after Ivana Trump's death
- Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. had agreed to in-person depositions on July 20, 21, and 22, a source told Insider.
- On Friday, New York's attorney general agreed to a delay due to Ivana Trump's death on Thursday.
- "This is a temporary delay," Letitia James said, offering her condolences to the Trump family.
Court-ordered depositions of Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. will be rescheduled after Donald's ex-wife and the children's mother, Ivana Trump, died on Thursday, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The one-day depositions had been scheduled for July 20, 21, and 22, with each Trump testifying consecutively for in-person sessions expected to fill most of each day, a source with knowledge of the scheduling told Insider.
No new date has been selected.
"In light of the passing of Ivana Trump yesterday, we received a request from counsel for Donald Trump and his children to adjourn all three depositions, which we have agreed to," said Delaney Kempner, director of communications for James.
"This is a temporary delay and the depositions will be rescheduled as soon as possible. There is no other information about dates or otherwise to provide at this time," she said.
Kempner declined to confirm the previously-scheduled dates.
James' office is investigating the former president and his New York-based international hotel and golf business.
Ivana Trump, the first of Donald Trump's three wives, died Thursday in New York.
The AG is wrapping up a 3-year probe into what she has alleged is a decade-long pattern of financial misstatements at the Manhattan-headquartered Trump Organization.
These misstatements inflated and deflated the values of company properties and assets and were used to secure more than $300 million in bank loans and tax breaks, she has said.
The Trumps had fought hard against being deposed in the inquiry, in dozens of court filings and hearings spanning state and appellate courthouses in Manhattan.
Trump attorneys have insisted that there was no pattern of fudging numbers at the company. The defense has also complained that the former president and his family are being targeted due to James' political bias as a Democrat, something that state and appellate judges have rejected.
Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., the former president's two eldest children, have served as vice presidents of the company.
Donald Trump, Jr., manages the company with Eric Trump, overseeing the Trump Organization's property portfolio and exercising authority over some of the annual financial statements that were used to get loans and tax breaks, the AG has said.
Ivanka Trump was the primary contact for the company's largest lender, Deutsche Bank; the AG has alleged that she caused misleading financial statments to be submitted to that bank and to the federal government.
Eric Trump — the third and youngest child of Donald Trump and Ivana Trump — is an executive vice president at the Trump Organization. Deposed in October, 2020, Eric Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment 500 times, the AG has said.
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