(CNN) Two top prosecutors leading the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business resigned after the Manhattan district attorney said he was not prepared to authorize an indictment against the former President, a person familiar with the investigation said.
Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, two senior prosecutors on the team, resigned last month -- one day after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg informed them that he wasn't prepared to move forward with criminal charges. The resignations followed weeks of internal debate and discussion over the strength of the evidence against Trump and whether it could pass the hurdle of proving a crime.
Prosecutors have been investigating Trump and the Trump Organization and whether they misled lenders, insurers, and others by providing them false or misleading financial statements about the value of properties.
The abrupt resignations last month of the top prosecutors has cast the future of the investigation into doubt as a special grand jury convened last year is set to expire at the end of April.
Bragg's office has reiterated that the investigation, which was started by Bragg's predecessor, Cy Vance Jr., is ongoing. Susan Hoffinger, an experienced attorney, has been appointed to lead the investigative team.
thatnameagain on March 7th, 2022 at 02:13 UTC »
Holy crap, so according to this a main reason they didn’t charge is because they thought that Michael Cohen, a Trump insider who could be a credible witness explaining the crimes, wouldn’t work because he had already spent too much time talking about Trump’s crimes and might be seen as biased by a jury… what??
Edit: thanks for upvoting my incredibly glib shorthand comment. Regardless of the details of the situation, the fact is that it should not be this hard to prosecute someone powerful who literally everyone knows is guilty of crimes.
Also if you want people to care about this stuff more then support independent progressive media sources.
yankinfl on March 7th, 2022 at 01:53 UTC »
Someone needs to look into that DA…
aquarain on March 7th, 2022 at 01:04 UTC »
As soon as it was announced I smelt a rat.