Page 8 - Florida Sentinel 8-7-20

Political
Oprah Launches 1st Ever ‘OWN Your Vote’ Initiative For And With Black Women
Filing Suggests Manhattan DA Is Investigating Trump For Possible Fraud
A new federal court filing Monday from the Manhattan district attorney suggests the prosecutor’s office may be in- vestigating President Trump and his company for bank and insurance fraud.
The filing, from District At- torney Cyrus Vance Jr., ar- gues that Trump’s accountants must comply with a subpoena to turn over eight years of corporate and per- sonal tax returns, citing “undisputed” news reports from last year about Trump’s business practices
The filing did not offer spe- cific details about what the in- vestigation is probing, but the reports in question claimed that Trump may have inflated his net worth and the value of his properties when providing information to lenders and in- surers. Trump’s attorneys have rejected accusations that
PRES. TRUMP
he did anything that conflicts with the law.
The filing stated that, “these reports describe transactions involving individual and cor- porate actors based in New York County, but whose con- duct at times extended beyond New York’s borders.”
“At the time the Mazars Sub- poena was issued, there were public allegations of possible criminal activity at Plaintiff’s New York County-based Trump Organization dating back over a decade,” the prose-
cutor’s office wrote.
The district attorney’s office
is seeking the records from Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, as part of a crim- inal investigation that involves hush-money payments to two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump. The ac- counting firm has said it will comply with the order.
Trump’s legal team and the Justice Department have ar- gued that the president is im- mune from investigation while he is in office. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Trump, rejecting the president’s claim of immunity. In 2016, Trump attracted harsh criticism when he be- came the first president in decades who declined to pub- licly release his tax returns during the campaign season, saying he was under audit by the IRS.
The OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on Friday launched its first ever OWN Your Vote initia- tive. OWN YOUR VOTE is de- signed to help Black women make a voting plan for this criti- cal 2020 election cycle, by recog- nizing obstacles to voting including challenges around COVID-19, mail-in ballots, voter suppression, transportation, and changing protocols and poll loca- tions; connecting the everyday is- sues critical to Black women to the issues appearing on the bal- lot; empowering this key voting block to own their voting story, and make a plan to ensure suc- cess at the polls; encouraging local community activism and leveraging personal networks; and collaborating with the voting rights partnership community to support mail-in voting, voter reg- istration, volunteerism, trans- portation, and safety procedures.
OWN is partnering on the cam- paign with national and local or- ganizations including the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People
(NAACP), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Action Network (NAN), Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Color of Change, Ad- vancement Project, Fair Fight Action, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Black Women’s Roundtable, The Na- tional Urban League, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorpo- rated, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, In- corporated, The Links, Incorpo- rated, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), Woke Vote, Higher Heights Leadership Fund, When We All Vote, Sistahs in Business Expo, Vote.org, The King Center, and more to come. Target mar- kets for the initiative include the key battleground states with a high concentration of OWN viewers including Florida, Geor- gia, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ne- vada, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, and Ohio.
PAGE 8-A FLORIDA SENTINEL BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020