former President Donald Trump hosted Congresswoman Elise Stefanik at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor last year
On June 14, Business Insider reported that Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah’s office has closed its investigation against former President Donald Trump without filing an criminal charges. The investigation focused on whether members of the Trump Organization falsified documents to obtain lower property tax rates for its Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor.
Business Insider reported that “Elliott Jacobson, a special prosecutor hired by Rocah, departed the office in late 2022,” and found “that the evidence collected in the investigation couldn’t support criminal charges.”
“The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office conducted an investigation regarding certain properties owned by Donald J. Trump and/or the Trump Organization located in Westchester County, New York,” an office spokesperson said in a statement. Our investigation is now closed. We approached this investigation as we do all of our investigations, objectively, and independent of politics, party affiliation and personal or political beliefs,” said a spokesperson for the Westchester DA’s office.
The former President hailed the decision, posting on Truth Social,
“AFTER GOING THROUGH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR TWO YEARS BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, IT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE CASE HAS BEEN DROPPED, AND NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED,”
“THIS WAS THE HONORABLE THING TO DO IN THAT I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT WHERE AND WHEN DO I GET MY REPUTATION BACK? WHEN WILL THE OTHER FAKE CASES AGAINST ME BE DROPPED? ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!
The case began after the Town of Ossining, which is the tax collection government agency for the Village of Briarcliff, got into a dispute with the Trump Organization over the true value of Trump National. In 2021, Rocah’s office subpoenaed financial records of the golf club.
Other investigations and criminal probes against Trump may have added to Rocah closing her investigation. NYS Attorney General Letitia James filed a massive lawsuit against the Trump Organization, and personally against the former President and his two children, Don Jr. and Eric.
James’ suit claims that “Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to further enrich himself and cheat the system.”
James’ case claims that Trump increased the value of his properties to get bank loans, while the Briarcliff case claimed that Trump decreased the value of the Golf Club to lower his property tax bill.
When asked about the Trump case at a recent press conference highlighting cold cases that were solved, Rocah said, “Part of why I’m saying anything at all is that I think it’s really important, more important than ever in our country, to make sure that people understand that we have independent prosecutors, we have a justice system that operates independent of politics. I can stand here and proudly say that I’m one of those prosecutors, and I look at every subject of any investigation, every organization that’s a subject of an investigation, the same way.”
