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The district attorney in Westchester County, New York, has closed a two-year investigation into former President Trump without filing charges. The district attorney in Westchester County, New York, has closed a two-year investigation into former President Donald Trump without filing criminal charges , her office confirmed Thursday. District Attorney Miriam Rocah had been investigating whether Trump National Golf Club Westchester had tried to inappropriately lower its tax burden in the Town of Ossining. "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," read a statement from the office. "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." MORE: Trump golf course under...

Former President Trump routinely overstated his net worth during years when the actual values of his holdings were far less, according to a filing by the New York AG. Former President Donald Trump routinely overstated his net worth -- sometimes by more than $2 billion -- during years when the actual values of his real estate holdings were far less than he claimed, according to a court filing Wednesday by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. The attorney general's office included the numbers in a motion for summary judgement that asks the court to resolve a civil fraud claim before the AG's $250 million civil suit against Trump goes to trial. The former president, meanwhile, called his real estate portfolio "the Mona Lisa of properties" during an April deposition in the suit, according to a transcript of the deposition that was made public Wednesday. MORE: New York AG Letitia James files $250M lawsuit against Trump for defrauding lenders, others ...

Hunter Biden is expected to enter a plea of not guilty when he is arraigned on federal gun charges, his attorney wrote in court filings Tuesday. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is expected to enter a plea of not guilty when he is arraigned on federal gun charges, his attorney wrote in court filings Tuesday. It's the first official indication of the younger Biden's plans to fight the charges against him following his indictment last week, though his attorney has publicly suggested he would fight the charges. The president's only living son was indicted last Thursday by special counsel David Weiss on charges that he lied on a federal form when he said he was drug-free at the time that he purchased a Colt revolver in October 2018. MORE: Hunter Biden indicted by special counsel on felony gun charges Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, has previously suggested they would push back on the gun charges , telling ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interv...

A federal judge has fined former President Trump and his attorney nearly $1 million for filing what he deemed to be a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. A federal judge in Florida has sanctioned former President Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba, ordering them to pay fines of nearly $1 million for filing what he deemed to be a frivolous lawsuit claiming that Hillary Clinton and others involved in the Russia investigation unlawfully conspired to damage Trump's reputation. The opinion from Judge David Middlebrooks calls Trump "a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries." MORE: Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, calling it a 'political manifesto' "He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions," Midd...