consideration was given in 2021 to charging trump with money laundering in conjunction with his hush money payments to a porn star in 2016. he tells us that serious consideration was given in 2021h to charging trump with enterprise corruption, meaning they considered a state rico indictment against him as if he were a mob boss. and mr. pomerantz tells us that in conjunction with the d.a. telling prosecutors in his office that they could go ahead with their plans to charge trump, mark pomerantz says they did, in fact, draw up draft charging languages excuse me, draft charging language for an potential charges against trump. so that s all new. we didn t know any of that. and, again, there is wild free-flowing lawyer rage, rage in lawyer circles about mark pomerantz having let us know rc that information at all. but, of course, i m greedy.ti it just all makes me want to know more.l here is mark pomerantz. veteran new york lawyer, former federal prosecutor, formerly a o
in the book that it wasn t just that he wanted to bring charges against former president donald trump, he says the district attorney, the new york d.a. who brought him into the office and hired him to work on the case, he wanted charges too. mark pomerantz says that in december 2021 just over a year after trump lost re-election, on december 13th, 2021 he says the then serving prosecutor in the manhattan d.a. s office cy vance authorized criminal charges against former president trump related to alleged financial crimes, allegedly submitting fake valuations of his properties and his assets in order to get banks to loan him money.et december 13th, 2021, mark pomerantz says the d.a. in new york gave the okay to pursue criminal charges along those lines against trump. however, no such charges were filed. no such indictment was sought from a grand jury and as mark pomerantz explains in his book he says that is because, 2 1/2, 3 weeks after that green light
number one, the new york d.a. alvin bragg has gone ahead with what appears to be a criminal grand jury presentation about donald trump. the grand jury is hearing witnesses and the presentation of evidence presumably toward a potential indictment of trump that started last week and, second thing, mark pomerantz just tonight is publishing this book about his experience investigating trump, his understanding of the evidence g against trump and his account of the wrangling among prosecutors and investigators about what they should do about trump s alleged criminal behavior.im and i am not exaggerating to say this book is making everybody lose their minds. it s making everybody very ev angry. people really are losing their l damn mines over this book, and it is full of red hot ve o allegations and information. i mean, mr. pomerantz is criticizing the d.a. for a decision not to go ahead a year
let me ask you first of all about something i alluded to inh the introduction which is that since the book was completed, i know from sort of a close reading to the use of tense and the way you were describing it, since the book was completed we have seen these moves by the new york d.a. to make a presentment of evidence of some kind to a grand jury in new york athat would lead to asking that grandt jury to indict mr. trump. from what we know before the grand jury right now, describing it as hearing witness testimony and reviewing other evidence about those hush money payments, how does that differ from what you thought that the d.a. should charge? well, when we were looking at charging donald trump, we were looking at a whole range of falsified business records and the bulk of the case had to do with his personal financial
ago with potential charges against trump, but the d.a. does now appear to be pursuing something along those lines, and we re going to talk about that in detail, the difference between what the d.a. is pursuing versus what mr. pomerantz wanted to charge trump with a couple of years c ago, but people are also mad because here s mark pomerantz who was involved in this investigation now talking and writing about how the investigation worked and what they thought and what they founo and what they argued about behind the scenes and because o that very unusual circumstance from a somebody working in a prosecutor s office, there is so right now sort of a furious counterargument against so mr. pomerantz and how he wanted to approach this case and what charges he wanted to bring so there is an argument against him on the substance but also just this free-floating lawyer fury out there over his decision to publish anything about the case at all.