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Friday, March 25th, 2022

Trump is guilty of ‘numerous’ felonies, prosecutor who resigned says

Author:     WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, BEN PROTESS and JONAH E. BROMWICH
Source:     The Seattle Times / The New York Times
Publication Date:     March 23, 2022 at 6:03 pm
 Link: Trump is guilty of ‘numerous’ felonies, prosecutor who resigned says
Stephan:   To the astonishment of many, including me, it appears that Donald Trump once again is going to get a free pass for his endless criminality. How can this be? Only Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg knows the answer to that question and he won' provide an answer as this report describes. It is my view that the New York governor should replace him with another prosecutor. And where is Merritt Garland? Notably missing in making any defense to protect the integrity of the American government. What is clear to anyone who bothers to examine the facts is that not only Trump, but the Republican Party is criminally corrupt.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 26. Credit: Scott McIntyre / The New York Times

One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald 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 Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Trump.

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 Dunne, another senior prosecutor leading the inquiry.

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. Bragg’s decision was “contrary to the public interest,” he wrote.

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Monday, March 28, 2022 at 9:28 am

    This is a straightforward case of: “The swamp protects it own.” I am sure it gives many of us warm, fuzzy feelings watching inaction by Merritt Garland who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Obama. What kind of Justice do you think he would have made? Place your faith in the NY State Attorney General.