Well, it’s not a great day if your name is Eric Frederick Trump and you’re the son of ex-president Donald Trump.
According to Forbes, Eric’s attorney who’s been representing him in New York State’s civil fraud suit against the Trump family business just up and quit and it’s not clear why.
Marc Mukasey of Mukasey Frenchman LLP informed a New York state Supreme Court judge in Manhattan last week that he was withdrawing from the case effective immediately and will no longer be representing Eric in any capacity.
The Trump Organization is currently being investigated by New York Attorney General Letitia James over allegations that it lied about the value of its assets to secure better loans and bigger tax breaks. Eric has denied any wrongdoing and accused James of “prosecutorial misconduct” and of trying to score “political points.”
Without any basis, the NYAG has pledged to take my father down from the moment she ran for office. This is the highest level of prosecutorial misconduct – purposely dropped on the eve of the Republican Convention for political points. Sad that this is her focus as New York burns pic.twitter.com/5tgtS3vH3F
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) August 24, 2020
In addition to the civil suit, the Trump Organization and its longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg are also facing criminal fraud charges for allegedly handing out non-monetary benefits to top officials, including things like luxury cars, private school tuition, and free housing in Trump properties, without paying any taxes on the value of those benefits.
When approached for comment, Mukasey, who has represented Eric since the case was first filed in August 2020, declined to say why he had abruptly quit. Eric is now being represented by criminal defense attorney Alan Futerfas.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
KyleMichelSullivan
Any bets on it being about him not paying the lawyer’s fees, and nothing more? That family is known for stiffing people, yet still idiots line up to work with them. Boggles the mind.
DennisBTR
Given the past history of the Trump organization not paying its bills, you might well be correct.
Anyone who does not get a retainer upfront from them is an idiot.
G-Man
It could also be that given the track record of any attorney that has works for the Trumps also seem to end up in some sort of legal trouble as well.
peacefulruffneck
Ruh Row. Going from a civil law attorney to a criminal lawyer who represents the mafia crime families can’t be good.
woodroad34
Alan Weisselberg’s attorney (in the last day or so) told the judge in Weisselberg’s case that he expects more indictments to be coming soon (making that statement because the attorney felt he already had too much to do and these forthcoming indictments would hinder his job). Ruh Row, indeed.
Phillip
You stiff your lawyers and they quit representing; it’s quite simple, Eric.
Most people with common sense can understand this.
It appears as though you Trump’s have run out of money. 😉
GayEGO
HA HA HA! Eric Trump’s lawyer just threw him under the bus! But, oops, maybe he was paid from Trump’s illegal money!
MynameisSid
It must be absolutely exhausting trying to wrangle the animals in that zoo 24/7
Bengali
Why can’t we get a coven of witches to curse the Trump family and the rest of the criminals in the GOP?
Mr. Stadnick
Who says one hasn’t already?
trojanboy
Poor thing. Still it can’t be too hard to find crooks to represent crooks so he’s likely ok.
Tombear
A grifter got to grift!
JJinAus
Any lawyer who took this client is a fool. I hope it cost him dearly.
BaltoSteve
It’s easy, given his father’s history, to say that it’s because of non-payment. However, that is something they would then file collection actions against the ugly bag of mostly water. And probably not go all hush hush about it. Then, we could all go, yep that’s it. It’s more than likely, they have had finally gone through the massive amounts of evidence against the Trump organization and him in particular and they can see that this is moving from a civil action to a criminal one. And they don’t practice that sort of law. And the reason they won’t issue a statement is that while they won’t represent him in the upcoming legal issues, they are still bound by attorney client privilege.
ricdardc1
ATTOURNEY T Eric:…………………..No Scrubs
TLC
A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fine
And is, also known as a busta
Always talkin’ about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass
So, no, I don’t want your number
No, I don’t want to give you mine and
No, I don’t want to meet you nowhere
No, don’t want none of your time and
No, I don’t want no scrub