Happy Thanksgiving. We’ll catch up on one of the highest-profile criminal investigations that the Manhattan district attorney’s office has ever conducted, its inquiry into Donald Trump and his family business. We’ll also look at the paragraph that started Thanksgiving as we know it.

New developments suggest that the long-running criminal investigation into Donald Trump and his family business has returned to its original focus — Trump’s statements about the value of his assets in seeking loans.

If prosecutors conclude that Trump intentionally submitted false valuations to potential lenders, they could argue that he engaged in a pattern of fraud.

Four of my colleagues — Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum, Jonah E. Bromwich and David Enrich — write that prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office have issued new subpoenas for records about Trump’s office buildings, hotels and golf courses. The prosecutors have also questioned a banker from Deutsche Bank, which lent Trump hundreds of millions of dollars over the years.

And earlier this month, they told Matthew Calamari, a Trump executive who had been under scrutiny, that they did not plan to indict him in the purported tax-evasion scheme that led to charges against Trump’s company and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.

Taken together, the developments suggest that prosecutors have moved away from those tax issues.

The shift comes as the district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., prepares to leave office at the end of the year. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing, calling the inquiry a politically motivated witch hunt by Vance, a Democrat who did not seek re-election for a fourth term.

Vance originally indicated that he wanted to decide whether to bring charges against Trump. He is running out of time. It might take prosecutors months to outline their case to a grand jury.

And so, after more than three years of investigating Trump, Vance may have to leave the decision to his successor, Alvin Bragg.