As the Manhattan district attorney’s office again ramps up its yearslong investigation of Donald Trump, a new book by a former prosecutor who once led the probe details just how close the former president came to getting indicted — and laments friction with the new D
FILE — Attorney Mark Pomerantz arrives at Federal Court in New York, Aug. 12, 2002. Pomerantz writes in his new book,"People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account," that then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. authorized him in December 2021 to seek Trump's indictment, and laments friction with the new D.A. Alvin Bragg that put that plan on ice.
The Associated Press and other news outlets received copies of the book on Friday. Pomerantz is scheduled to appear on “60 Minutes” on Sunday and Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show on Monday as part of a promotional blitz. At one point, he writes, Bragg said that he “could not see a world” in which he would indict Trump and call Trump's long-estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen as a witness. Cohen, who arranged hush-money payments to women on Trump's behalf in 2016 and claims to have intimate knowledge of his financial dealings, was convicted in a parallel federal case of lying to Congress and has had a propensity to inflate his importance to the investigation, worrying prosecutors.
In a statement Friday, Bragg said he hasn't read the book, and “won’t comment on any ongoing investigation because of the harm it could cause to the case.” He defended his decision to refrain from charging Trump and slammed Pomerantz for quitting while the matter was still pending. Pomerantz likened Trump's cunning, charisma and ability to “stay one step ahead of the law” to that of late Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, whose son, John A. Gotti, he prosecuted while an assistant U.S. attorney.
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