Trump’s accounting firm reportedly cuts ties with his family business

Donald Trump’s longtime accounting firm abruptly cut ties with his family business last week, the New York Times reported, amid criminal and civil investigations into whether the former president illegally inflated the value of his assets. Mazars USA said in a Feb. 9 letter to the Trump Organization that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for the ex-president, the Times said.

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