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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump criminal probe's heating up. Here's why the Trump children might want to lawyer up.
The former guy has no loyalty to anyone including his offspring. It is only a matter of time before the former guy throws his offspring under the bus
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In fact, depending on what those Trump Organization family members have already said and to whom it may already be too late. Importantly, because the Trump Organization case is now criminal, individual employees and officers of that organization can face criminal charges for their specific roles in any corporate wrongdoing. Donald Jr. and Eric still serve as executive vice presidents of the organization, a title that Ivanka Trump previously also held. And, of course, before his presidency, their infamous father was at the helm of the organization.
During my FBI career, including my time leading one of the largest white-collar crime branches in the field, and later, as a corporate security executive, I saw corporate employees mistakenly think that their companies' attorneys represented them, too, in cases of corporate malfeasance. Big mistake. A company attorney represents the company, not the individual employees or executives. It's quite likely that Trump Organization attorneys have already asked and Trump family members have already answered questions about what each of them did or did not do that might be the focus of New York's investigation.
In fact, there's a whole body of case law on what it means when an employee answers questions posed by a company's attorneys or investigators to try to get to the bottom of who did what. There's even a kind of "corporate Miranda warning" that ethical companies give their employees who are asked to provide statements when a company is trying to determine whether it's in trouble.
These advisements called "Upjohn warnings" developed out of a Supreme Court case involving a pharmaceutical company accused of paying bribes overseas. The Upjohn case resulted in a kind of good news/bad news conclusion. The good news for corporations was that the court found that attorney-client privilege applied to communications between company attorneys and employees.
During my FBI career, including my time leading one of the largest white-collar crime branches in the field, and later, as a corporate security executive, I saw corporate employees mistakenly think that their companies' attorneys represented them, too, in cases of corporate malfeasance. Big mistake. A company attorney represents the company, not the individual employees or executives. It's quite likely that Trump Organization attorneys have already asked and Trump family members have already answered questions about what each of them did or did not do that might be the focus of New York's investigation.
In fact, there's a whole body of case law on what it means when an employee answers questions posed by a company's attorneys or investigators to try to get to the bottom of who did what. There's even a kind of "corporate Miranda warning" that ethical companies give their employees who are asked to provide statements when a company is trying to determine whether it's in trouble.
These advisements called "Upjohn warnings" developed out of a Supreme Court case involving a pharmaceutical company accused of paying bribes overseas. The Upjohn case resulted in a kind of good news/bad news conclusion. The good news for corporations was that the court found that attorney-client privilege applied to communications between company attorneys and employees.
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The Trump criminal probe's heating up. Here's why the Trump children might want to lawyer up. (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
May 2021
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Tiffany has not been involved in the family business and so can represent one of her half-siblings
LetMyPeopleVote
May 2021
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Lovie777
(12,281 posts)1. There is Lin Wood . .......
and isn't Tiffany a lawyer.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,329 posts)4. Tiffany has not been involved in the family business and so can represent one of her half-siblings
This would be fun to watch but could get in the way of Tiffany dating her secret service agent
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)2. Likely Trump will threaten kids
to take the dive for him or be disinherited.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)3. Tick tock...
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)5. Please please be true.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)6. I always thought the only person he wouldn't throw overboard is Ivanka,tho Jared might have to go...
...along with Jr and Eric.
Had not paused to wonder if Jr and Eric might hand over Ivanka to the State or to the Feds... Is that a great family, or what?