Manhattan District Attorney

A prosecutor who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last month said in his resignation letter that he believes the former president is “guilty of numerous felony violations” and he disagreed with the Manhattan district attorney’s decision not to seek an indictment.

Two top prosecutors involved in the investigation of the Trump Organization and former president Donald Trump have resigned from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, a spokesperson confirmed to NBC News Wednesday.

Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, being sworn in Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were convicted of killing Malcolm X in 1965. They were exonerated on Thursday. Only one was alive to see it.

Here is a timeline of key dates related to the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, and the prosecution of the men originally said to be his killers.

Donald Trump’s real estate company expects to face criminal charges in Manhattan, but will move immediately to dismiss them, an attorney for the former president said Friday. Sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News that the charges could be filed as soon as next week, in a case believed to be tied to allegations of tax evasion over...

A team of New York prosecutors led by a newly hired former mob-buster, is sending out fresh subpoenas and meeting face-to-face with key witnesses, scrutinizing Trump’s business practices in granular detail

Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, said he met with prosecutors from the Manhattan DA’s office Wednesday afternoon via Zoom for two and a half hours.

It’s sleepy by Donald Trump’s standards, but the former president’s century-old estate in Westchester County could end up being one of his bigger legal nightmares.

Manhattan’s district attorney has obtained former president Donald Trump’s tax returns after a years-long legal battle. A spokesman for DA Cy Vance told NBC News Thursday morning that the long-fought subpoena for his records from Mazars USA was enforced Monday. Vance’s office was able to enforce the subpoena after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an...

President Donald Trump’s legal entanglements are likely to intensify when he leaves the White House and loses immunity from prosecution

President Donald Trump’s accountant must turn over his tax records to a New York state prosecutor, an appeals court ruled Wednesday in a decision that likely sets up a second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in a written decision that a stay of a lower-court...

The district attorney’s office cited multiple news reports in which Trump or his companies have been accused of overstating the value of his assets when dealing with potential business partners and lenders while minimizing the value of those same assets for tax purposes.

The New York prosecutor who has been fighting, unsuccessfully so far, to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns had better luck last year getting a bank to turn over his financial records.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns, voting 7-2 that a New York grand jury can subpoena the president’s financial documents. In a separate ruling, the justices kept a hold on Trump’s financial records that Congress has been seeking, sending the case to lower courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena President Trump’s tax returns, but separately said lower courts needed to reconsider whether Congress could subpoena his financial records. The 7-2 ruling in the New York grand jury case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says “Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude,...

The Supreme Court says it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private. The justices’ decision Friday to hear cases involving demands for records from Trump’s banks and accounting firm means the court is likely to issue final rulings in June, amid Trump’s campaign for re-election.

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...