Federal prosecutors spent the past year investigating Loren Merchan because her father presided over the trial that made Donald Trump a felon.
Merchan co-owned a marketing firm until late 2024, and the subpoena that opened the investigation never named a crime. It demanded the firm’s private communications with top Democrats, including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Hakeem Jeffries. Trump has always attacked the families of the people he believes crossed him. This time the attack came from a grand jury, and targeting her is what let prosecutors demand everyone else’s records.
Her lawyers fought back, and after a year the sweeping demand shrank to the emails between Loren and her father, Judge Juan Merchan, and a single $468 payment from the Harris campaign.
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