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Document: Trump Sues House Oversight Chairman and Accounting Firm Over Tax Returns

Mikhaila Fogel
Monday, April 22, 2019, 11:19 AM

President Trump and the Trump Organization have filed a lawsuit against Rep. Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and the accounting firm Mazars USA LLP. The complaint addresses the committee's subpoena for and negotiation over the release of Trump's financial information.

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President Trump and the Trump Organization have filed a lawsuit against Rep. Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and the accounting firm Mazars USA LLP. The complaint addresses the committee's subpoena for and negotiation over the release of Trump's financial information. The suit seeks, among other things, a permanent injunction of the subpoena and any actions taken to enforce it, and a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Mazars from producing the tax returns. The complaint can be read in full below.


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Mikhaila Fogel was an associate editor at Lawfare and a research analyst at the Brookings Institution. She previously worked as a legislative correspondent for national security and foreign affairs issues in the Office of Sen. Susan Collins. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, where she majored in history and literature and minored in government and Arabic.

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