Donald J. Trump is a rich ex-President….
THAT seem to have given him a ‘get out of jail free’ card….
The Manhattan Crimal Grand Jury handling the Trump matters is done as of tonight….
The District Attorney running things has shown that he’s NOT a guy who will go hard against Trump or most others….(He is still seeking documents from other places)
He’s getting beat up in the New York media….
Dropping the year’s old Trump case will add to his abuse in the media and make Trump happy….
The only worries the Queens born ex-President has in New York will be from the state’s Attorney General , who unlike Alvin Bragg….
Isn’t gonna let go of anything in her civil case and could actually take over the DA’s criminal case if she wanted to….
When some two dozen New Yorkers filed into a Manhattan courthouse this week to finish out their grand jury service, the case against a man who would have been the world’s most prominent criminal defendant was no longer before them.
That man, Donald J. Trump, was facing potential criminal charges from the grand jury this year over his business practices. But in the weeks since the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, stopped presenting evidence to the jurors about Mr. Trump, new signs have emerged that the former president will not be indicted in Manhattan in the foreseeable future — if at all.
At least three of the witnesses once central to the case have either not heard from the district attorney’s office in months, or have not been asked to testify, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
In recent weeks, a prosecutor at the Manhattan district attorney’s office who played a key role in the investigation has stopped focusing on a potential case against Mr. Trump, other people with knowledge of the inquiry said — a move that followed the resignation earlier this year of the two senior prosecutors leading the investigation….
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In an interview this month, Mr. Bragg said that his prosecutors were interviewing new witnesses and looking at additional evidence. He declined to provide details, citing grand jury secrecy law, but said that the inquiry must be allowed to run its course.
“It’s a work in progress,” Mr. Bragg said, adding later, “We’ve got seasoned prosecutors working every day. It’s not going to be on a timeline.”
But impaneling a new grand jury could create challenges for any potential case. Mr. Trump’s lawyers could argue — and a judge might agree — that prosecutors were inappropriately hunting for a more favorable group of jurors.
It would also take time to prepare a new presentation of evidence and months to lay out a case to jurors.
Mr. Bragg’s office does not have unlimited time to charge Mr. Trump…
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[ AG] Ms. James’s office is also participating in the district attorney’s criminal investigation, opened by Mr. Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., more than three years ago.