Trump: criminal charges in New York end in nothing
The New York grand jury case against Donald Trump ends without charges for the former president, and all allegations of maneuvering real estate values for tax advantages will run out this week. Yet another flop of the Democrats in an attempt to legally attack the former President, who, however, will have to pay a fine for contempt of court.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) inherited the case from former District Attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. According to the Washington Post, Bragg decided not to go ahead and ask the grand jury to vote on the allegations, mostly because The new district attorney failed to get former Trump adviser Michael Cohen to testify in a useful way.
Bragg said he will announce when the investigation is over, noting that even after the special grand jury is dissolved, other grand juries hearing a wide range of criminal cases in New York would be available to take action in this case if needed.
The grand jury deadline comes after two senior prosecutors (Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne) left the case in February after claiming Bragg was blocking the investigation. Cohen said he met investigators from the district attorney's office a dozen times, but that no one has contacted him since two departures.
According to Pomerantz, Trump's "financial statements were fake and he has a long history of manipulating data related to his personal finances and lied about his assets to banks, national media, counterparties and many others, including the American people."
Meanwhile, attorneys from New York Attorney General's Office Letitia James (D) told WaPo that a criminal case is unlikely to be launched, despite a spokesperson for James saying the investigation is ongoing.
Last week a judge charged Trump with contempt of court for failing to provide James's office with corporate documents, fining him $ 10,000 a day until he complies. Trump's lawyers are challenging the order, as is another by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron demanding that Trump and two of his adult children be deposed from James's team.
On Friday, Engoron rejected Trump's offer to drop the outrage sentence after he and his lawyers filed affidavits. The affidavits "do not specify" who conducted the searches for the requested documents, or where and when the searches were carried out, the judge said. He called Trump's two-paragraph affidavit "completely devoid of useful detail." -WaPo
Trump and the team claim they did nothing illegal about the Trump Organization's asset valuations, accusing James of taking legal action against him in personal vendetta.
However, the complicated judicial case set up against Trump in New York seems to be heading towards a conclusion that sees the former President come out of the center of the accusations.
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