It seems there is more to the abrupt resignation of two high-ranking prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances last week than what we originally realized.
There seemed to be a bit of wishy-washiness with regard to why the two high-ranking prosecutors suddenly left their positions and the investigation — with some reports indicating that Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz stepped away from the investigation due to the newly elected District Attorney’s — Alvin Bragg Jr. — alleged inaction on the case. There seemed to be a bit of back and forth on this for several days following the resignations, but a new report from The Daily Beast has now seemingly confirmed that the resignations of Dunne and Pomerantz were directly related to an apparent stall in the case on AG Bragg’s part.
The New York Times reported last week that the two high-profile prosecutors turned in their letters of resignation following a month-long pause in the team’s interactions with a special grand jury in the case against the Trump Organization. According to The Washington Post, Bragg would leave memos about the case for weeks at a time before reading them and has seemingly ditched entirely the team’s plans to eventually indict the former president on his crimes.
The Beast was able to determine through a response from the DA’s office to a public records request that not only did the two prosecutors pen extensive resignation letters, they wrote so deeply regarding the slow movement of the DA’s office’s probe that the district attorney’s office wouldn’t even release copies of the letters.
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The DA’s office claimed to The Beast that the letters would reveal too much information, in response to the publication’s request for public records under New York’s Freedom of Information Law.
“The criminal matter both individuals were assigned remains pending; as such, the public release of the letters which reflect internal deliberations and opinions about an on-going investigation will likely interfere with that investigation,” Bragg’s office responded. “Further, the documents reference matters attending a grand jury proceeding, which is exempt from disclosure.”
The Beast goes on to report that “It also appears that Dunne and Pomerantz quit so abruptly that they didn’t even send goodbye emails to the high-profile team they led before they left. The office told The Daily Beast no such letters exist.”
Thus far, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has been running this investigation for upwards of three years and has only produced “tax fraud indictments against the Trump family company and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.”
You can read the full report from The Daily Beast here.
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