A new investigation has revealed President Trump’s adult children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., were nearly charged with felony fraud in 2012 for lying to people interested in buying apartments in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development. The near criminal prosecution was revealed in an article jointly published by The New Yorker, ProPublica and WNYC. The article also reveals that the case was dropped by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office only after Trump’s personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz, visited Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in 2012—only months after Kasowitz donated $25,000 to Vance’s re-election campaign. While Vance returned that $25,000 donation ahead of his meeting with Kasowitz, Vance went on to overrule his own prosecutors and instruct them to drop the case against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Six months later, Vance received a $50,000 donation from Kasowitz and his friends.