Posted on 03/24/2022 8:29:17 PM PDT by Enterprise
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stopped pursuing charges against former President Trump and suspended the investigation "indefinitely," one of the top prosecutors who resigned from the office said in his resignation letter--but disagreed with the decision.
Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who had been leading the investigation under former DA Cyrus Vance, submitted their resignations last month, after Bragg began raising doubts about pursuing a case against Trump.
"You have reached the decision not to go forward with the grand jury presentation and not to seek criminal charges at the present time," Pomerantz wrote in his resignation letter, first reported by the New York Times. "The investigation has been suspended indefinitely."
"Of course, that is your decision to make," Pomerantz wrote to Bragg. "I do not question your authority to make it, and I accept that you have made it sincerely."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"The source told Fox News Digital that Trump did not inflate his financial statements, as prosecutors had anticipated, but instead, undervalued his assets."
"The source also told Fox News that Trump never defaulted on payments to banks, and said his statement of financial condition included "caveats" which "refuted" claims by the DA’s office."
What's interesting to me (I'm not a lawyer by any means) is that they must not have thought they could find a NYC judge who would play along with them. They only had to find one, and even if that one judge had known the case would be thrown out on appeal, there would have been tremendous political benefit for the Democrats if a kangaroo court trial could have been conducted during the election season in 2024.
I'm sure there are aspects of the situation I'm not seeing, but even if there are, I don't see how those aspects could be anything but helpful to President Trump.
I never doubted that it was a purely political prosecution. Someone got cold feet. Thankfully.
The walls are closing...never mind.
To Democrats, that means that Trump was even better at hiding his criminality than they thought.
-PJ
Of course. I never doubted it either.
Trump must have run his organization with an almost unbelievable level of play-by-the-rules, don't-go-outside-the-lines discipline.
Bernie Madoff got away with a fantastic level of criminality for decades and was never detected until his Ponzi scheme collapsed, at which point it became completely obvious that he was a total fraud. He cost his investors almost $70 billion. Whistleblowers told the SEC and FINRA about him multiple times, and were ignored. Many market experts suspected there was something fishy about his organization, and their observations were thrown in the garbage by highly-paid federal regulators.
Trump appears to be the exact opposite. He has been gone over with so many fine-toothed combs it's a wonder he has any skin left on his body, and not a thing was turned up.
Speculation, but a possibility: The DA found something in the case that would devastate some high powered Democrats if it were made public and simply could not find a way to bury it. If they prosecute, the info comes out. So you decide not to prosecute to avoid major collateral damage.
The NY GOP is so useless. The national GOP needs to do something to help.
Why suspend the investigation, if there is nothing to be found? It should be permanently closed, or these bastards will drag it out again if President Trump runs in 2024. Aren’t there time limits for these types of cases to be pursued? If so, would Trump be able to get a decision to have this investigation permanently dismissed with prejudice?
I read that when new DA Bragg announced his goal of jailing as few people as was legally possible, he was ‘Blast-Furnaced” by a very angry and unexpectedly aggressive public backlash. Even some media joined in on slamming him.
It got to a point, where the new Mayor had to ask the DA to walk those statements back to take some of the heat off them both.
Ever since that painful initiation, the DA has become quite cautious about which cases he choses to pursue.
He very likely knew all those Letitia James Brand Trump harrassment lawsuits were pretty flimsy to use for trying to convict a former president. Bragg didn’t want to look like an even bigger fool when those cases quickly fell apart.
I think Trunp knew he was going to run at some point in 2008 and made sure everything was extra squeaky clean going forward.
That’s what I believe also, but it may be just the icing on the cake as the posters above really show solid evidence that the whole thing had no merit 9 that wouldn’t have stopped Bragg, see Mueller)
You think they only investigated back to 2008 and no further?
Trump has been in business for more than forty years.
Statues of limitations, record retention periods, all come into play.
Trump lied about deadly helicopter crash, president's former long-time employee saysSource."Donald Trump lied about almost being on a helicopter when it crashed and killed five people, a former Trump Organization official has said."
"Barbara Res, who was the company's vice-president of construction, told MSNBC the US president once fabricated a story that he decided at the last minute to avoid the 1989 flight."
Trump is not being investigated for murder, so why on earth would that statute of limitation be relevant?
You know, you're right. I'm sure the various prosecutors who have been pursuing Trump for the last five or six years, constantly leaking hints to various MSM outlets that they were "closing in" on Trump, that they were finding all kinds of big problems in the Trump organization... I'm sure they were only interested in crimes other than murder, and even though a (disgruntled and publicity-seeking) member of Trump's own staff had made such an accusation, those prosecutors — who everyone knows were politically motivated — immediately drew a line in the sand.
"Oh, no, mercy me, perish the thought!" said they. "We'll pursue any accusation of any conceivable financial crime against Trump, but we cannot look at any other subject, no sir!"
I see that clearly now that you've pointed it out.
The NYS GOP died in the mid 90's and Ed Cox put the final nail in the coffin. Now the committee's are comprised of county workers who need jobs and attorneys who want to be judges. Most chairman are in it for the title and could care less about endorsing, supporting and getting conservatives elected.
And all those non murder crimes have statute of limitations. So stop flopping around desperately trying to make something stick.
I'm not flopping around, I'm making the point that Trump has run a tight ship with zero funny business since back in the 70s, not just since 2008.
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