The New York attorney general's office's investigation of former President Donald Trump's business now has a criminal component, a spokesman said Tuesday night, 18 May, joining the Manhattan district attorney's office probe and expanding a months-long inquiry that until now had been focused on civil fraud.

"We have informed the Trump Organisation that our investigation into the organisation is no longer purely civil in nature," said Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the attorney general's office. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organisation in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA."