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A former Manhattan prosecutor has revealed that the district attorney’s office once considered filing extortion charges against former President Donald Trump.
Mark Pomerantz, who resigned in protest last year after District Attorney Alvin Bragg decided not to indict Trump, detailed his case against the former president’s alleged corrupt business practices in his forthcoming book, People vs. Donald Trump.
According to extracts delivered to the New York Times and the daily beastPomerantz said his colleagues investigated all of Trump’s businesses, including his real estate empire, his for-profit university and his family’s charitable foundation.
“In my career as a lawyer, I have only met one other person who touched all of these bases: John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino organized crime family,” Pomerantz wrote.
He added that to refute claims that Trump was not lying because he “believed his own exaggeration,” prosecutors would have to “show and emphasize that Donald Trump was not legally insane.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office was working to bring extortion charges against Donald Trump (pictured) for alleged corporate corruption, according to a former prosecutor.
Mark Pomerantz, who resigned in protest last year after District Attorney Alvin Bragg decided not to indict Trump, compared the former president to notorious Gambino crime boss John Gotti (pictured), a characterization criticized by Trump’s lawyers.
Pomerantz said that when the prosecutor’s office reviewed the case against the former president, they “discussed whether Trump had been talking *** bullshit for so many years about so many things that he could no longer process the difference between bullshit and reality.”
The lawyer said he asked his colleagues: “Did Donald Trump suffer from some type of mental condition that prevented him from distinguishing between fact and fiction?”
And comparing Trump to the infamous mob boss, Pomerantz wrote that the former president “demanded absolute loyalty and would go after anyone who crossed him.”
He also stated that Trump “seemed to always be one step ahead of the law.”
The characterization was met with outrage by Trump’s legal team, with attorney Joe Tacopina threatening legal action against the former prosecutor if he publishes the book.
Tacopina told the Times that “injecting John Gotti’s name into this looks like another desperate attempt by Pomerantz to sell books.”
While the book reiterates allegations that Trump had fraudulently inflated his assets while conducting business in New York City, it focuses primarily on the turbulent journey Pomerantz went through to build the case that was ultimately never pursued while he was in the office of the fiscal.
Pomerantz claimed that his work to build a case against Trump lacked support after Braggs became district attorney in 2022, and the lawyer wanted to press charges despite admitting to his new boss that they were only 70 percent certain. chances of success.
Full details of the legal drama will be highlighted in Pomerantz’s new book, People vs. donald trump
While working with former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., Pomerantz came out of retirement to lead the investigation.
Pomerantz noted that there were clear risks in bringing money laundering charges against Trump.
Instead, Pomerantz wrote that New York’s corruption-related extortion statute “was an ideal vehicle for prosecuting Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.”
Although Vance was supposedly behind the new strategy, Pomerantz claimed that the rest of the team was “not enthused” and that support waned as Vance was preparing to resign.
Pomerantz said he soon became a “delusional lunatic” for having the Manhattan district attorney’s office work together with the state’s attorney’s office, led by Letitia James, who he said was “way ahead” in building a similar case against Trump.
In early 2022, Pomerantz admitted that the case was not safe, putting his chances of success at roughly 70 percent, the Times reports.
Bragg ultimately decided not to pursue the case and defended his decision before the new book was published.
“After closely reviewing all the evidence from Mr. Pomerantz’s investigation, I came to the same conclusion as several high-ranking prosecutors involved in the case, as well as those I brought in: more work was needed,” he said in a statement.
‘Our knowledgeable and professional legal team continues to follow the facts of this case wherever they lead, without fear or favor. Mr. Pomerantz decided to resign a year ago and sign a book contract,” he added.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is renewing his investigation into hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels
The District Attorney’s Office has ‘jumped forward’ its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s role in a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
Despite not seeking charges against Trump at the time, Bragg has “launched” a legal investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star who claims she had a one-night stand with the former president.
Alvin Bragg is said to be investigating whether the illegal payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, made shortly before the 2016 presidential election, could be related to Trump.
The renewed momentum comes after Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million last week for conspiring to defraud tax authorities for 15 years by giving executives perks like free cars, apartments and license plates. Private schools.
A New York state judge handed down the maximum financial penalty Friday after juries in Manhattan found two Trump Organization affiliates guilty of 17 criminal charges, including fraud, last month.
Trump was not tried and denied any knowledge of his executives illegally evading taxes.
In the case of Stormy Daniels, the District Attorney’s Office had been investigating the claims before, but attention shifted to the former president’s businesses.
Now that a successful sentence has been delivered, the Bureau is now refocusing once again on Daniels.
He claims to have had a one-night stand with Trump at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament in 2016, shortly after Trump’s third wife, Melania, gave birth to the couple’s son, Barron. Trump denies having sexual relations with the actress.
Since the Trump Organization trial, subpoenas have begun to be sent out once again, reports the New York Times.
While the information being sought is unknown, it is a suggestion that the Trump investigation is gaining momentum once again.
New York Attorney General Letitia James demanded Trump’s statement in August, and just over a month later she announced a lawsuit against the former president, three of his children and his company for inflating the value of their property.
The case at the Manhattan district attorney’s office also comes as District State Attorney Letita James is moving forward with her case against Trump and his companies.
James, a Democrat who campaigned on a promise to take on Trump and his businesses, filed a $250 million lawsuit alleging he had misled banks and lenders about his assets.
In a video statement for the case, Trump could be seen invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 400 times.
“This is all very unfair,” Trump said in his statement over the summer. ‘Anyone in my position who didn’t accept the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool.
“I respectfully decline to answer questions about the rights and privileges afforded to all citizens under the Constitution of the United States,” he added, claiming it was on the advice of his lawyer.
This will be my answer to any other question.