Trump Lawyer: Manhattan DA Won’t Charge Former President

The hard-left has weaponized DA offices across the country – funded by the notorious black hand –  George Soros. If the left’s’ candidate prevails in the November DA election, Trump will be target number one, but we will all be looking at prison.

There’s a whole network of donors and organizations around the country who are committed to helping elect radical prosecutors preaching radical reform, including familiar names: George Soros and his Justice & Public Safety PAC, musician John Legend, and the Real Justice PAC, co-founded by activist and writer Shaun King. Other big players have lower profiles, like Patty Quillin, wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, or Open Philanthropy, which is funded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

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Across the country, several prosecutors elected in the last few years have won by saying they won’t prosecute certain crimes. Manhattan District Attorney (DA) candidate Tahanie Aboushi won’t prosecute prostitution or some burglaries or possessing weapons or stolen property. If she wins the November election, she also plans standard policies of dismissing certain assaults, larcenies, and most firearms charges for perpetrators who don’t get arrested and charged again within six months. In fact, each of the eight Manhattan DA candidates are struggling to be more decarcerating than their challengers. And big money is backing candidates who won’t prosecute law violations they cite as inherently biased. Billionaire George Soros is bankrolling many races through his Real Justice PAC. They say “all politics are local”, but Soros and Bernie Sanders are trying to subvert local elections.

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner also doesn’t charge gun possession or sex workers. Candidates in Chicago, St. Louis, Orland, and Los Angeles won elections as reform prosecutors intending to institute similar agendas. Don’t misunderstand: the so-called “War on Drugs” has been an abject failure, resulting in the United States imprisoning more per capita than any other country in the world. But prosecutorial discretion is not the same as criminal justice reform, which falls to the legislative branch of government.

Big cities are not the only place where prosecutors don’t want to prosecute. Washtenaw County MI DA Eli Savit won’t charge illegal guns or contraband found during traffic stops because they’re the result of racial profiling. He also won’t charge “consensual sex”, meaning prostitution.

Apparently actual crime doesn’t enter into the equation. Gun violence is up 75% in New York state but the Manhattan DA candidates don’t plan to charge gun crimes. And how do these progressive Democratic reform prosecutors not prosecuting existing gun law violations square such policies with mainstream Democratic calls for a “War on Guns” to replace the War on Drugs?

On the surface of it, decriminalizing sex work seems a personal autonomy issue. But there is research suggesting sex work is traumatizing regardless of legality. Decriminalizing prostitution likely will result in decreased human trafficking investigations despite legalized prostitution resulting in greater human trafficking, including children. So, sex work is not victimless and, while the hookers should get the counselling and support they need, the people profiting off selling them for sex should still be held to account. And that includes the buyers who create the market, just like child pornography. Prostitution is not as “consensual” as some may think.

We need criminal justice reform. That’s why we elect legislators—to enact and change laws. It’s not up to radical DAs to arbitrarily decide to change a country based on the rule of law into a land where laws aren’t upheld.

Cy Vance’s team plans to bring narrowly focused charges in its probe of the Trump Organization, says Ron Fischetti.By: Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico, June 28, 2021:Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.

Ronald Fischetti, a New York attorney who represents the former president, said on Monday that in a meeting last week, he asked Vance’s team for details on charges they were considering.

According to Fischetti, members of Vance’s team said they were considering bringing charges against the Trump Organization and its individual employees related to alleged failures to pay taxes on corporate benefits and perks. It has been widely reported that those perks included cars and apartments and appear to only involve a small number of executives.

“We asked, ‘Is there anything else?’” Fischetti told POLITICO. “They said, ‘No.’”

“It’s crazy that that’s all they had,” he added.

When asked if the meeting touched on allegations made by Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen and by adult film star and director Stormy Daniels, Fischetti replied, “Nothing. Not a word on that.”

Fischetti also said that Vance’s team told him they will not bring charges against Trump himself when the first indictment comes down.

“They just said, ‘When this indictment comes down, he won’t be charged. Our investigation is ongoing,’” he said.

A spokesperson for Vance’s office declined to comment.

Vance’s team has told lawyers for Trump that they will proceed with charges unless persuaded otherwise today, according to The Washington Post. Fischetti told POLITICO he expects charges to come this week or next.

“It’s like the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing,” Fischetti added. “This is so small that I can’t believe I’m going to have to try a case like this.”

Vance has spent years investigating the Trump Organization. His team went to the Supreme Court to get authorization to seize Trump’s personal tax returns — meaning his investigators know more than just about anyone about the former president’s finances. The Washington Post reported last month that Vance’s office convened a grand jury to decide whether or not to bring charges against the Trump Organization or Trump himself.

In recent weeks, the probe has drawn increased media attention. The former daughter-in-law of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, has shared reams of documents with investigators.

Since the earliest days of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, his finances have generated intense interest and speculation. The president refused to publicly release his tax returns, but The New York Times obtained records indicating he used “questionable measures” to lower his tax bills.

In February 2019, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress that Trump exaggerated his wealth to lower his insurance premiums, as The Washington Post detailed. Those allegations set off alarm bells among legal observers, who said they could land Trump in serious legal jeopardy. But in the years since, federal authorities have not brought charges against Trump or his associates related to the allegations. And now, Trump’s personal lawyer says Manhattan authorities have indicated they won’t bring such charges in the immediate future.

Trump’s finances also faced intense scrutiny after news broke that Cohen allegedly paid “hush money” to Stormy Daniels and another woman so they would not speak publicly about affairs with Trump. (Trump denies having had affairs with the women.) Outside legal experts said the payments could have been legally problematic for Trump, and Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign laws when he made the payments.

CNN reported that Vance’s investigators have been looking at Cohen’s and Daniels’s allegations. Vance’s team could still charge the Trump Organization with those related crimes. But for now, according to Trump’s lawyer, those charges do not appear to be immediately forthcoming.

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