The New York attorney general’s office has said it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity".
A spokesman for the state’s top prosecutor, Letitia James, said the inquiry into Mr Trump’s property company was "no longer purely civil".
Ms James has been scrutinising the ex-Republican president’s financial dealings before he took office.
The Trumps deny wrongdoing and say the inquiry by a Democratic prosecutor is a political vendetta.
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