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still_one

(91,966 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:16 PM Feb 2021

What is up with the SDNY in regard to trump and company, and why does it seem nothing is happening?

https://www.rawstory.com/indict-trump/

“ Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon with host Alex Witt, former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen urged the Merrick Garland -- expected to be approved as the next U.S. Attorney General -- to launch an investigation into the federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York office to see why they let Trump Organization officials off the hook for criminality.

Referencing his own role in paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her affair with Trump before the 2016 election, Cohen suggested that Trump Org officials also engaged in acts that should be prosecutable.

In particular, he focused on the ex-president and Don Trump Jr. among others.

"When I was forced to plead guilty by the Southern District of New York, their obligation, considering they actually wrote the elocution and they were insistent that we name, you know, individual number one with the hush money paid, so why they wouldn't now go ahead and convict him [Trump] or at least indict him on it?' he stated. "I am going to use the same word: it is a dereliction of duty. I believe they are obligated on behalf of the American people to indict not just him but others."



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What is up with the SDNY in regard to trump and company, and why does it seem nothing is happening? (Original Post) still_one Feb 2021 OP
SDNY, the same district that jerked HRC around. Sneederbunk Feb 2021 #1
SDNY. Where trump will get a pass, yet again. Cy Vance is someone who has been BComplex Feb 2021 #2
Isn't Cyrus Vance with NY state, not SDNY? regnaD kciN Feb 2021 #3
He's with the Manhattan District Attorney's office. eom BComplex Feb 2021 #4
Investigations take time. I have faith in Letita James, AG. apcalc Feb 2021 #5
It seems like nothing is happening, because Nothing Is Happening msfiddlestix Feb 2021 #6

BComplex

(7,984 posts)
2. SDNY. Where trump will get a pass, yet again. Cy Vance is someone who has been
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 05:45 PM
Feb 2021

purchased in the past. He's a tool, and should never have been put in charge of trump's shenanigans. I've been saying all along, he won't ever hold trump accountable.

msfiddlestix

(7,266 posts)
6. It seems like nothing is happening, because Nothing Is Happening
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 06:05 PM
Feb 2021

I've always suspected Cy Vance was ghosting everything.

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