Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara recently sat down for an interview with Slate’s legal columnist, Dhalia Lithwick, and was quick to note that while he’s not personally privy to all the inner workings of the multiple investigations currently raging against ex-President Donald Trump, he does see “signals” from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. pointing to something big coming down the pike — something that former President Trump won’t be happy about.
Bahara kicked things off by explaining the falling out with Donald Trump that ultimately led to his firing, and noted that there is honestly very little information coming out of his former workplace, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, to indicate where the entity stands with their investigations into the former president. However, he claims that the District Attorney’s office is an entirely different story.
“His tax returns are in the hands of Cyrus Vance Jr., the district attorney of Manhattan. They’re working to flip folks in the Trump organization. I wonder what piece of that you’re watching or are you just watching all of it? What do you expect to see in terms of accountability and having some sense that there is some closure to any of this?” Lithwick questioned the former U.S. attorney.
“The one that we know about most directly and most prominently is the one you mentioned, the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into Trump’s finances and business dealings,” Bahara answered. “I don’t know because I’ve not been in the grand jury, I’ve not interviewed the witnesses. Cy Vance doesn’t call me up and tell me stuff, but there is some signaling going on.”
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“Cy Vance is not running for reelection. Vance is, as they say, a lame duck. As a lame duck, he’s done certain things, including hiring an outside forensic accounting firm, which is not super unusual but it’s not that common. He’s done something else that is less common, which is hire an outside lawyer, Mark Pomerantz, who’s a very distinguished, well-respected lawyer in New York,” the attorney went on to explain. “I’m not going to put too much weight on it, but it seems like the kind of move you make when you believe that there’s going to be a charge or there’s a good likelihood of a charge, because it’s a pretty public thing to do.”
Bahara goes on to recognize that such a move on Vance’s part could certainly stand to “alienate” some of the other people in his office, but he feels that Vance finds it worth the risk because he has a good, strong case.
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