Report: Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. were almost indicted for fraud

Before they had the eyes of the nation watching their every move, a new report claims Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were almost indicted for real estate fraud.

According to a new report from ProPublica, the Major Economic Crimes Bureau of Manhattan’s D.A.’s office opened an investigation into President Trump's children in 2010.

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The two Trumps were put in charge of filling the rooms of their father's SoHo project but sales were not going as expected with the recession looming right around the corner.

So in 2008, according to the ProPublica report, they began inflating the numbers -- with Ivanka announcing that 60 percent of the rooms had been bought, when, in fact, only 15.8 percent had actually been purchased.

Buyers finally realized they had been duped and sued the Trump Organization.

The Trumps settled the civil suit, agreeing to give back 90 percent of buyers' deposits with the caveat that "the plaintiffs agreed not to cooperate with prosecutors unless they were subpoenaed."

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However, the criminal investigation continued, and it wasn’t until May of 2012 when Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz visited Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., that the case finally went away.

Kasowitz was one of Vance’s biggest donors for his reelection campaign, but Vance told ProPublica that he did the "right thing."