Manhattan prosecutor who resigned says Trump committed felonies

[Marius25]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/trump-investigation-felony-resignation-pomerantz.html


Was Bragg paid off to not prosecute Trump? This is seriously corrupt and I'm so angry. Trump is a criminal and nobody will prosecute him.

[Carlitos Brigante]

1. Don't know about paid off. I don't know much about him TBH. But I do

think we have plenty of prosecutors in this country who will avoid going after rich people (even the fake rich apparently) like the plague. Whether it's cowardice, a deference to power, corruption, that I can't say.

[SoonerPride]

2. Yet another instance where he is guilty and gets away with it

No one will ever hold him to account.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Paywall. Give us poor people four paragraphs, please

[Poiuyt]

4. Here

One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter.

The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Mr. Trump.

Mr. Pomerantz, 70, a prominent former federal prosecutor and white-collar defense lawyer who came out of retirement to work on the Trump investigation, resigned on the same day as Carey R. Dunne, another senior prosecutor leading the inquiry.

Mr. Pomerantz’s Feb. 23 letter, obtained by The New York Times, offers a personal account of his decision to resign and for the first time states explicitly his belief that the office could have convicted the former president. Mr. Bragg’s decision was “contrary to the public interest,” he wrote.

[Poiuyt]

5. also

“The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did,” Mr. Pomerantz wrote.

Mr. Pomerantz and Mr. Dunne planned to charge Mr. Trump with falsifying business records, specifically his annual financial statements — a felony in New York State.

Mr. Bragg’s decision not to pursue charges then — and the resignations that followed — threw the fate of the long-running investigation into serious doubt. If the prosecutors had secured an indictment of Mr. Trump, it would have been the highest-profile case ever brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and would have made Mr. Trump the first American president to face criminal charges.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Excellent. Thank you.

[BSdetect]

7. As usual we are left astonished and waiting for action

[Thomas Hurt]

8. Bragg needs to be called on this crap and explain himself.

[Marius25]

9. This is blowing up on twitter. Glenn Kirschner even talking about it.

Alvin Bragg is seriously corrupt and in Trump's pocket.

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. I thought we just had to be patient,

and MF45 would be brought to justice. . . .

[ecstatic]

11. Who is putting the brakes on prosecuting him??

Seriously, if they think they're doing the US' reputation a favor, they're not! Other nations have prosecuted former presidents before and rightfully so.