May 26, 2021 · New York prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s business dealings.
Feb 25, 2022 · NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A new prosecutor has been chosen to lead a criminal probe into former U.S. President Donald Trump, the Manhattan district attorney's …
Aug 20, 2021 · When we last checked in with the Trump Organization and the Manhattan District Attorney‘s criminal case against it, things were looking pretty bleak for the ex-president’s …
Feb 23, 2022 · A New York Times report suggests they did so because the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told them “he had doubts about moving forward with a case” against Trump. The …
District Attorney of New York County | |
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Incumbent Alvin Bragg since January 1, 2022 | |
Formation | 1801 |
First holder | Richard Riker |
Website | ManhattanDA.org |
Office and current official | Salary |
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Attorney General of New York Letitia James | |
New York Secretary of State Robert Rodriguez | |
New York Public Service Commission James Alesi | $127,000 |
New York Commissioner of Agriculture Richard A. Ball | $120,800 |
Barbara Underwood (Acting) | 2018 |
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Eric Schneiderman | 2011 – 2018 |
Andrew M. Cuomo | 2007 – 2010 |
Eliot Spitzer | 1999 – 2006 |
Dennis Vacco | 1995 – 1998 |
Meanwhile the company is fighting to keep further evidence out of the Manhattan DA’s hands, presumably because said evidence makes it look really, really bad.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 19: US President Donald Trump returns to the White House after multiple campaign stops over the weekend on October 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. With only a couple of weeks left before the 2020 Presidential Election the President is campaigning heavily in key states. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Samuel Corum
Matt Lauer was fired due to a complaint of "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace" on Nov. 29, 2017
Fact: One can't be rejected if they reject first.
Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is cooperating in the New York investigation into Trump’s finances. Cohen tells MSNBC’s Ari Melber that his 'cooperation is not over' and adds, 'the district attorney's office has millions of pages of documents…on Trump, The Trump Organization and other people.' Cohen says the key problem for Trump is 'that the truth will always come out.'
SCOOP: The Manhattan DA's office subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned Trump Org millions for its Chicago skyscraper, a sign the probe into Trump's finances continues to expand, people familiar w/ the investigation tell @KaraScannell https://t.co/z8pwpeXPJz
According to CNN: ‘Prosecutors issued the grand jury subpoena to Fortress Investment Management late last year, the people said, as part of their wide-ranging investigation into former President Donald Trump and his company.
790. The Southern District of New York, led by District Attorney Cy Vance, has taken their investigation into a new turn by issuing subpoenas for documents related to loans Trump received for his Chicago skyscraper, a loan that totaled over $150 million but received loan forgiveness on $100 million of the total.
The reason for the forgiveness, which happened during the financial crisis that led banks to try and recoup losses at any price in order to keep money coming in, means that Trump directly profited from the crisis at the time.
Their appearance at the New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan came almost three months after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. unsealed a bevy of criminal charges that alleged the Trump Organization and Weisselberg took part in a more than 15-year scheme to defraud taxpayers by paying company executives with untaxed benefits.
Trump Organization's Criminal Trial Likely To Start In August 2022 Investigations into former President Donald Trump's family business by the Manhattan district attorney and the New York state attorney general are still underway, and more indictments may be coming.
Allen Weisselberg (center), the longtime chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump's family business, stands behind Trump during a 2017 news conference at Trump Tower in New York City. Weisselberg, who appeared in court Monday, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud taxpayers by paying Trump Organization executives with untaxed benefits.
The judge hearing the tax fraud case against former President Donald Trump's family business and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, in New York City has set a schedule with a potential court trial starting in late August or early September 2022, just months before the midterm elections.
Weisselberg, who has been employed by the Trump family since 1973, and the Trump Organization have pleaded not guilty to the allegations. The former president has said the case is politically motivated.
Former presidents do not typically face this level of potential legal liability. Al Drago / Getty Images. Many are watching the New York County district attorney's criminal investigation into the financial dealings of former President Donald Trump and his businesses with bated breath.
That was followed by an impeachment trial. No, not that impeachment — the first one, dealing with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. This was, of course, followed by the second impeachment trial looking into whether Trump incited an insurrection in the Capitol. And that's to say nothing of the variety of congressional investigations opened ...