The New York attorney general's office is now pursuing a criminal probe into former President Donald Trump's business empire, expanding the scope of what started as a civil investigation.
Attorney General Letitia James has been examining whether the Trump Organization deliberately reported incorrect valuations of assets to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits.
"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan [district attorney]," Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for the attorney general's office, said in a statement.
For more than two years, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has been conducting a separate investigation into Trump's business dealings in the period before he became president.
Vance's office has said in court filings that it was probing "possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct" at the Trump Organization, including tax and insurance fraud, along with falsification of business records.
The Republican ex-president has in the past denounced the investigations as part of a Democratic "witch hunt."
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