A New York prosecutor on Thursday warned against allowing U.S. President Donald Trump to run out the clock on the Manhattan district attorney's criminal probe into Trump and his company. The case concerns an August 2019 subpoena to Trump's accounting firm Mazars USA for eight years of personal and corporate tax returns, related to Vance's criminal probe into Trump and his Trump Organization. Dunne told U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero there are looming deadlines to prosecute cases because of statutes of limitations, and more delays could give Trump the "absolute temporary immunity" the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected. WATCH | A look at the Mueller probe and other investigations into Trump:Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling offloaded potential cases to other offices. And at this point, we don't know how many investigations are still out there digging into U.S. President Donald Trump's conduct.

Source: CBC News July 16, 2020 17:26 UTC