property that trump has pulled this kind of a stunt with. this habit of mr. trump and his company was first brought to public attention in congressional testimony from trump lawyer michael cohen, who claimed that trump inflated and deflated these values wildly and, importantly, purposely to deceive banks and insurance companies and tax authorities, which if it was done purposely, intentionally for that purpose, that would be criminal fraud. well, now we have new reporting from david fahrenthold and his colleagues at the "washington post" about just how serious the ongoing investigations into that potential fraud are. we've known a state prosecutor in manhattan, the manhattan district attorney, had convened a new grand jury recently to hear evidence about the trump organization, to consider charges along this front. we also knew that new york's attorney general, tish james, has her ongoing civil investigation into matters related to this stuff as well. but today's "post" reporting adds new details into how they're going about digging into