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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Finally Ready to Indict Trump?
Alvin Bragg told reporters recently the Manhattan DAs Office was ready to move to the next chapter. Does that mean, after resisting for so long, hes ready to go after Trump?https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-finally-ready-to-indict-donald-trump
Minutes after a New York judge ordered the Trump Organization to pay $1.6 million for criminally dodging taxes last Friday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg held a press conference. It was shorttwo minutes, to be exactbut Bragg was still able to bask in the glory of his offices hard-fought victory against Donald Trumps family company. And he was able to tease his next move.
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Bragg congratulated his team on successfully prosecuting two Trump companies and sending its top accountant to jail, noting how the win closes this important chapter of our ongoing investigation into the former president and his business. We now move on to the next chapter, he continued. To many, it sounded like Bragg was finally ready to set his sights on former President Donald Trumpnearly a year after making the disastrous decision to not indict him for fear of losing in court, a move that demoralized the investigative team and caused its top two prosecutors to quit in protest.
But Bragg may finally have changed his mind. The recent trial offered a preview of the damning evidence that ties Trump directly to the crime. First, theres the memo Trump signed approving chief operating officer Matthew Calamaris blatantly illegal request in 2012 to reduce his taxed salary by $72,000 to cover the cost of his untaxed high-end corporate apartment. Add to that the fact that Trump, in a separate New York legal fight in 2021, asserted under oath that he personally oversaw Calamaris compensation.
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Second, there are checks Trump signed to cover the expensive tuition at a private school for chief financial officer Allen Weisselbergs grandkids. Add to that Weisselbergs trial testimony, in which he remembered being in Trumps office a decade ago when he promised to pay it backa vow he fulfilled when he reimbursed the company by also lowering his taxed salary.
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Is Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Finally Ready to Indict Trump? (Original Post)
Celerity
Jan 2023
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OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)1. Meh.
Dorian Gray
(13,493 posts)2. I'm not going to hold my breath.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,619 posts)3. Greatest Page for this important post! ♥
Torchlight
(3,337 posts)4. Trump is a frog in the pot of warm water.
I doubt he'll ever realize the water's getting hot. Until he does.
I think when he does, that will be THE tantrum of the century, and the tantrum he is forever after identified with and as.
DET
(1,311 posts)5. Hope Springs Eternal, But...
I just dont trust Alvin Bragg. Id like to know the real reason he didnt prosecute the first time around and what changed his mind. And hes still being cagey. Wouldnt surprise me if even he doesnt know what hes going to do at this point.
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)6. Probably not.
UTUSN
(70,694 posts)7. Note to Daily Beast: Instead of "go after" how'bout just "legal remedies"/justice?