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Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who first opened Donald Trump hush-money probe, warns comments by the former president could make jurors view the case more severely. "I was disturbed to hear the former president speak in the way he spoke about the District Attorney Bragg and even the trial court in the past week," Vance said Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press." If he were Trump's attorney, Vance said, he would tell Trump to "be mindful of not committing some other criminal offense," such as obstructing the government. "I think that could take what perhaps we think...

Former federal prosecutor Mark Pomerantz has written a new book in which he presents the case that the Manhattan District Attorney should have charged former President Donald Trump with several crimes relating to his financial dealings. Pomerantz, who assisted the Manhattan District Attorney's office in its investigation into Trump's finances from December 2020 until he left the case in February 2022, had been in private practice for a long time before taking the position. He was originally hired by DA Cyrus Vance but left the job after new DA Alvin Bragg decided not to continue with charges against Trump. He...

NEW YORK CITY – Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty Thursday to tax violations spanning over a decade, agreeing to serve 100 days behind bars and testify about the Trump Organization's business practices. Weisselberg, 75, was charged with evading taxes by receiving perks that were not counted as income. He pleaded not guilty to 15 counts, including grand larceny last year, which, in the state of New York, is the unlawful taking of funds or property valued at $50,000 or more. "In one of the most difficult decisions of his life, Mr. Weisselberg decided to enter a plea...

NEW YORK — A six-month grand jury that was convened late last year to hear evidence against Donald Trump was set to expire this week, closing a chapter in a lengthy criminal investigation that appears to be fizzling out without charges against the former president, people familiar with matter said. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who took office in January, inherited a probe launched by his predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who was convinced that there was a case against Trump for crimes related to manipulating the value of property assets to secure tax advantages or better loan rates.

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...

VIDEO The big news yesterday is that after months and months of intense investigation, there will be NO indictment of President Donald Trump by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.. Therefore Rachel Maddow who has been acting like her life depends on Trump being indicted had to feign joy over charges possibly being brought against the Trump organization (NOT Trump) for a few officials possibly not paying taxes on fringe benefits. Yeah, all that INTENSE investigation and that is all they came up with. Oh, and NOTHING against Donald Trump himself. Perhaps Maddow knows if she acknowledges...

VIDEOAny suggestion that the New York investigation of Donald Trump is in any way political is yet another example of "THE BIG LIE." As you can see, New York Attorney General Letitia James has conducted herself in an absolutely professional manner completely free of any hint of partisan bias.

Click here to read the full articleA grand jury has been con­vened to decide if they will indict Don­ald Trump in New York on pos­si­ble crim­i­nal charges.The grand jury has recent­ly con­vened and will be togeth­er three days per week for six months decid­ing on whether or not to indict the 45th Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, The Wash­ing­ton Post reported.It is like­ly to hear sev­er­al mat­ters — not just the Trump case ­— dur­ing the dura­tion of its term, which is longer than a tra­di­tion­al New York state grand-jury assign­ment, these peo­ple said. Like oth­ers, they spoke on the...

Legal experts are picking up “signals” that the Trump team is bracing for subpoenas or indictments in the New York City and Georgia investigations into the former president. Washington, D.C.-based public interest lawyer John Banzhaf, who prompted the election interference investigation in Georgia, said the case is heating up. He noted that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is struggling for documents from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is said to be “lawyering up.” Meanwhile, Willis has hired a special prosecutor who had a role in the Whitewater case against former President Bill Clinton. Banzhaf also noted that...

Top Mueller Henchman Lays Out New Scheme To Prevent Trump 2024 White House RunFormer President Donald J. Trump may have been run out of the swamp, but the witch hunt goes on with his enemies fully mobilized to prevent his return. While Trump continues to mull a 2024 White House run, efforts are underway to use every dirty trick in the book to take him out with extreme prejudice. Now, a familiar cast of characters have emerged as conspirators. One of them is Andrew Weissman, the vicious former prosecutor who was fondly referred to as “Mueller’s pit bull” for his...

Several years ago, I was the sponsor for a guy going through conversion from what he was (in a religious sense) to Catholic. He wasn’t just any guy; he was a very senior CIA officer who has frequently appeared on television since he transitioned to think-tank denizen. The Rite of Christian Initiation as an Adult (RCIA) experience builds a bond between sponsor and candidate/catechumen that often goes beyond religious conversations. On one occasion, we talked politics and foreign policy.What separates us from the Third World in our politics, he opined, are the twin concepts of peaceful transfer of power via...

State prosecutors in Manhattan investigating former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization have subpoenaed the personal bank records of the company’s chief financial officer and are questioning gifts he and his family received from Mr. Trump, according to people with knowledge of the matter.In recent weeks, the prosecutors have trained their focus on the executive, Allen H. Weisselberg, in what appears to be a determined effort to gain his cooperation. Mr. Weisselberg, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, has overseen the Trump Organization’s finances for decades and may hold the key to any possible criminal case in...

‘Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime’ – Lavrentiy Beria to Joseph StalinPresident Trump was acquitted for the second time on Saturday by the US Senate, but the crooks in New York continue to harass him with investigations.New York prosecutors, led by crooked Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., are investigating loans that Donald Trump took out for his Manhattan properties.According to the Wall Street Journal, New York prosecutors are probing loans that Trump took out by Ladder Capital for four different buildings.TRENDING: BREAKING: Senate Votes 57-43 to ACQUIT Donald Trump - Here Are the SEVEN Republicans...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is considering whether to prosecute Steve Bannon for state crimes. The former senior White House advisor last month received a pardon in a federal criminal case from then-President Donald Trump. The inquiry by District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office underscores the double-edged sword of presidential pardons, which only apply to federal crimes, not to state cases.

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered the dismissal of a pair of lawsuits accusing former President Trump of illegally profiting from his presidency, after several foreign and state government officials patronized his properties - including the Trump International Hotel in Washington, located a few blocks from the White House.The plaintiffs included hotels, restaurants and the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia, and accused Trump of violating the Constitution's two emoluments clauses, according to Bloomberg Law, which notes that "One clause bars a president from accepting benefits from foreign governments without congressional consent, while the other bars...

Manhattan's district attorney on Monday said the 'mountainous' allegations of misconduct linked to President Donald Trump and his businesses justified enforcing a subpoena for his tax returns and other financial records. The district attorney's office also suggested for the first time Monday that Trump could be investigated for tax fraud, according to The New York Times. Lawyers for District Attorney Cyrus Vance made the argument in a filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, four days before it considers Trump's request to block the August 2019 subpoena to his accounting firm Mazars USA.

New York City prosecutors have subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday. Manhattan District Attorney’s Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office recently sent a subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm seeking the last eight years of state and federal tax returns for Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity. Asked about the subpoena as he left the White House on Monday, Trump said: “I don’t know anything about it.” A lawyer...

You may ask yourself, is it worth one of the best American non-fiction writers producing a book of just under 600 pages on an arrogant and abrasive egotist whose highest sustained rank in the State Department was that of a lowly assistant secretary? The answer is unabashedly yes. This is a remarkable work about a remarkable, if deeply flawed, statesman whose career was intimately intertwined with the 50 years of American decline from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Nearly all biographies have long, boring stretches you want to skip. This one has none. The access to Richard Holbrooke’s papers and to the...

The New Yorker is out with its big piece on Harvey Weinstein, and it’s bad. Really, really bad: New Yorker: 13 women tell @RonanFarrow of their accusations agst Harvey Weinstein; Farrow reports 3 allege rape https://t.co/cFqcspKTSy — David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) October 10, 2017 But on top of the rape allegations, the New Yorker posted audio from a NYPD sting in 2015 after an Italian model and actress accused Weinstein of groping her. This is really hard to listen to: Weinstein, in conversation with Gutierrez, admits to groping her. Here’s the audio: https://t.co/zSQbK5NV0c pic.twitter.com/vmrrSUp43w — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 10,...

The man you see (indistinctly) in the photo below is Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who spoke before a packed crowd at the Women’s National Republican Club last night on a variety of subjects. Although the invitation I responded to billed the evening as a discussion of sanctuary cities, Vance did not address the topic until prompted by an audience member during the question and answer session, approximately 40 minutes or so after he began speaking. I can’t say I was surprised by his reluctance to address the subject, despite its topicality. The New York County District Attorney’s office...