The lawyer for Donald Trump said he couldn't find the former executive assistants he was looking for.
The lawyer swore in an affidavit that most phone calls wouldn't be returned.
The AG wants to know how the former assistants preserved the documents.
Many of Donald Trump's former executive assistants can't be found because they won't return his calls.
As she winds up her investigation of the former president's real estate and golf resort empire, the New York Attorney General demanded that Trump make his former secretaries available.
She wants them to swear out affidavits that explain the process they used to organize and preserve Trump's personal business records.
AG Special Counsel Andrew Amer said in court papers that he couldn't locate any of Trump's former executive assistants.
According to the latest filing in Trump's battle against James' document subpoeana, most of the missing former executive assistants did not respond to calls or voicemails.
The accounting was given for the AWOL assistants.
The filing said that three of them couldn't be found because they didn't leave forwarding numbers.
The filing said that six more had left forwarding numbers, but didn't return the phone calls.
One of the former executive assistant's phones was out of service, and yet another promised to call back, but didn't.
The 12th was found in the week after the AG's office complained and swore an affidavit stating "I have no formal document retention policy."
An affidavit was sworn out by an executive assistant who worked at the Trump Organization headquarters in Manhattan.
The Manhattan judge presiding over the James-versus- Trump subpoeana battles has warned that failing to comply could result in a $10,000-a-day contempt-of-court fine for the former president.
The fine had been capped at $110,000 and the contempt order had been lifted, but only conditionally.
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