Professor Bruce Green was quoted in a New York Times article discussing the New York Attorney General’s motion to involve two of Donald Trump’s children in the civil investigation of the former president.
The New York State attorney general’s office, which last month subpoenaed Donald J. Trump as part of a civil investigation into his business practices, is also seeking to question two of his adult children as part of the inquiry.
The involvement of the children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, was disclosed in court documents filed on Monday as the Trump Organization sought to block lawyers for the attorney general, Letitia James, from questioning the former president and his children.
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Asked about the argument in the motion, Bruce Green, who directs a center for legal ethics at Fordham University, said that the Trump family members would still be able to invoke their right against self-incrimination if Ms. James’s office won the right to question them.
Mr. Green said that lawyers for the family would have to show, rather than simply state, that Ms. James was abusing the civil process to gather evidence for the criminal case.