A prosecutor who investigated Donald Trump says the former president is guilty of “numerous felony violations.” Mark Pomerantz made the hefty assertion in his resignation letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The Washington Examiner reports:
“As you know from our recent conversations and presentations, I believe that Donald Trump is guilty of numerous felony violations of the Penal Law in connection with the preparation and use of his annual Statements of Financial Condition,” Pomerantz said in the letter, which was reported by the New York Times on Wednesday.
“His financial statements were false, and he has a long history of fabricating information relating to his personal finances and lying about his assets to banks, the national media, counterparties, and many others, including the American people. The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did,” Pomerantz said.
In February, Pomerantz and fellow prosecutor Carey Dunne both resigned from the investigation after a month-long pause in the presentation of evidence to a grand jury.
“Mr. Vance had been intimately involved in our investigation, attending grand jury presentations, sitting in on certain witness interviews, and receiving regular reports about the progress of the investigation. He concluded that the facts warranted prosecution, and he directed the team to present evidence to a grand jury and to seek an indictment of Mr. Trump and other defendants as soon as reasonably possible,” Pomerantz wrote.
While Pomerantz said the investigation “has been suspended indefinitely,” a spokeswoman for Bragg, Danielle Filson, insisted the inquiry was continuing, the New York Times reported. “A team of experienced prosecutors is working every day to follow the facts and the law. There is nothing more we can or should say at this juncture about an ongoing investigation,” Filson added.
In his legislation letter, Pomerantz said Bragg’s refusal to prosecute Trump now was his reason for leaving.
“Not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” Pomerantz said.
On Thursday, Trump hit back against Pomerantz’s claims through his Save America PAC.
“A Radical Left lawyer who works with Chuck Schumer’s brother at a Democrat law firm is upset the District Attorney of New York has not yet pursued phony charges against President Trump. It’s troubling how politicized our justice system has become, where Democrats are loaned out to gin up crimes against their political opponents. President Trump built a great business, and did nothing wrong. New York should get back to solving their skyrocketing crime problem, rather than spending so much time and energy on partisan witch hunts.
“On top of everything else, their firm represents the DNC, Democrats, and is Hillary Clinton’s law firm. This is disgraceful behavior and how somebody like that and others from his firm can be let loose to become prosecutors of a great Republican President is disgraceful. So bad, in fact, that professional prosecutors resigned in protest of this presidential persecution. They thought it was very unfair. Will this Radical Left law firm be held legally accountable for what they have done?”
