New York Attorney General Letitia James is taking a closer look at the actions taken by Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump in the tax fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization, Newsweek reports.

James is suing Trump and three of his children — Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric Trump, along with two senior executives at the Trump Organization for $250 million over allegations that the real estate company either inflated or undervalued the value of numerous assets for financial gain.

The former president is, of course, the main focus of the lawsuit, but Ivanka is facing increasing scrutiny as part of the case, with James even singling her out for her apparent failure to comply with proceedings.

Indeed, the reticence displayed by the defendants spurred James to write to New York Judge Arthur Engoron, requesting that he intervene because those involved hadn’t handed over the pertinent information and documents as part of the discovery process in a “timely and transparent fashion.”

This isn’t surprising. Trump and his family always seem to think they are above the law.

James’ office informed Engoron that one of the more worrisome issues in the family’s insufficient response to the discovery process was an explanation as to why there was an “unexplained drop-off” in emails for Ivanka Trump between 2014 and 2017.

James’s office reports that in the first nine months of 2014, the volume of Ivanka’s emails averaged 1,218 per month. But then in October 2014 it dropped to 299 emails and averaged 242 emails through December 2015. In 2016, Ivanka averaged a mere 37 emails per month according to James’ office.

“Not only have defendants failed to offer any substantive response to this inquiry, but there have been no documents produced by Ms. Trump,” the attorney general’s office told the judge in the letter, dated April 25.

Judge Engoron responded by setting May 12 as a deadline for the Trump family to hand over all outstanding documents that haven’t been turned in, as part of the discovery process. To push the family further, he also set a May 15 deadline to submit a compliance affidavit. This affidavit means they will have complied under oath that they have fulfilled their legal obligations to hand over the requested information.

James has begun focusing on Ivanka Trump as a key part of her lawsuit because the former president’s eldest daughter has distanced herself from the rest of her family in the case. Ivanka has also replaced the attorneys representing her in the suit. Last March, she asked for a delay in the civil trial so that she could organize her defense separately, and argued she wasn’t involved in the allegations that form the crux of the case.

In court filings, lawyers for Ivanka Trump have argued that James’ fraud suit “does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed, or certified any of her father’s financial statements.” Her lawyers also argued that “other individuals were responsible for those tasks.”

The filings seem to indicate that her father and brothers were the ones who allegedly signed off on the fraudulent financial statements.

To attorney and legal political analyst Andrew Lieb’s way of thinking, this was a smart move for Ivanka Trump, who parted company with the Trump Organization in 2017 in order to join her father’s administration, thus putting distance between herself and the rest of her family in the $250 million lawsuit.

“Ivanka arguing that she has a unique defense to the fraud case against her family because the lawsuit doesn’t even accuse her of lying about the company’s finances, as she had left the company back in 2017, is not a sign that she is going to throw her family under the bus. Instead, it’s a sign that whether the bus crashes or not, she isn’t getting aboard,”Lieb has told Newsweek in past interviews.

“It’s the smart and correct strategy for Ivanka to take and it demonstrates that [her husband Jared] Kushner’s lawyers know what they are doing in the courtroom.”

And after she deep-sixed lawyers Clifford Robert and Michael Farina, whom she’d shared with her brothers, in favor of Bennett Moskowitz, who is now the sole attorney on her case, it’s become clear Ivanka is preparing to offer a different defense than that of her family’s.

But Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, has waved away suspicious that there’s a rift between Ivanka and her older brothers.

“I think people are trying to make that a bigger deal than it really is,” she told the Daily Mail. “It’s not common to have to go through all this stuff that my husband and his siblings go through.”

She also added that the Trump siblings have worked with a “series of different attorneys” and that Ivanka “felt closer to one.” Lara Trump said she still gets together with Ivanka since they both live in Florida.

This is definitely a convoluted case and it’s interesting that James has now set the spotlight on Ivanka.

What will that reveal?