In pressing for transparency in President Donald Trump’s financial affairs, a Washington lawyer is suing him for muddling the extent of his personal debts in a federal financial disclosure form in 2016. Trump mixed personal debts with loans made to his businesses or development projects so the public cannot tally his personal indebtedness separate from his business liabilities. (Politico, March 18, 207, by Josh Gerstein)
The lawyer Jeffrey Lovitky said his main interest is to provide information to the public so they can better detect possible conflicts of interest. (ABA Journal, March 21, 2017, by Victor Li)