Ouch…..
There ARE lawyers who disapprove of Pomerantz, who is out with a book knocking his old boss for not going after Donald Trump criminally initially upon taking office….
Pomerantz takes his own hits in the Just Security piece…..
On Feb. 23, 2022, veteran defense lawyer and prosecutor Mark Pomerantz resigned from the Manhattan District Attorney Office where he had helped lead a criminal investigation over the past year into former president Donald Trump’s finances and business practices. His resignation letter, which was shortly thereafter anonymously provided to the New York Times, set off an outcry in some quarters against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
The resignation letter asserted that Bragg’s predecessor, Cy Vance, had directed the office to seek an indictment of Trump and that Bragg had decided to effectively drop the case. Now, one year later, Pomerantz has released a book containing his account of his year in the DA’s office. But many of the assertions in the book, rather than support Pomerantz’s resignation letter, cast a very different impression of his prior claims.
Below, I have annotated the verbatim resignation letter (adding underlining for the passages I comment on). I draw primarily from his own book, and also include some key news reports (especially reporting subsequent to the resignation letter) and other public statements from Pomerantz and Vance.
Aside: There may well be a strong case to indict Trump for financial crimes under New York State law (e.g., for false statements to banks and falsified business records), as detailed in a Brookings Institution report.….