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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIvanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
Oh. But - CROOKED HILLARY? Right? You can be assured of ONE thing when Donald Trump attacks someone else: Whatever he's accusing anyone else of doing, it's because he's actually doing the thing HIMSELF (or has done). He PROJECTS. Hillary Clinton said this a week or so ago and she's RIGHT. He deflects, rejects, points fingers -- when HE is one of the biggest criminals on the PLANET, along with his family of grifters and con artists...
New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
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Kasowitz, who by then had been the elder Donald Trumps attorney for a decade, is primarily a civil litigator with little experience in criminal matters. But in 2012, Kasowitz donated $25,000 to the reelection campaign of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., making Kasowitz one of Vances largest donors. Kasowitz decided to bypass the lower level prosecutors and went directly to Vance to ask that the investigation be dropped.
On May 16, 2012, Kasowitz visited Vances office at One Hogan Place in downtown Manhattan a faded edifice made famous by the television show, Law & Order. Dan Alonso, the chief assistant district attorney, and Adam Kaufmann, the chief of the investigative division, were also at the meeting, but no one from the Major Economic Crimes Bureau attended. Kasowitz did not introduce any new arguments or facts during his session. He simply repeated the arguments that the other defense lawyers had been making for months.
Ultimately, Vance overruled his own prosecutors. Three months after the meeting, he told them to drop the case. Kasowitz subsequently boasted to colleagues about representing the Trump children, according to two people. He said that the case was really dangerous, one person said, and that it was amazing I got them off. (Kasowitz denied making such a statement.)
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Kasowitz, who by then had been the elder Donald Trumps attorney for a decade, is primarily a civil litigator with little experience in criminal matters. But in 2012, Kasowitz donated $25,000 to the reelection campaign of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., making Kasowitz one of Vances largest donors. Kasowitz decided to bypass the lower level prosecutors and went directly to Vance to ask that the investigation be dropped.
On May 16, 2012, Kasowitz visited Vances office at One Hogan Place in downtown Manhattan a faded edifice made famous by the television show, Law & Order. Dan Alonso, the chief assistant district attorney, and Adam Kaufmann, the chief of the investigative division, were also at the meeting, but no one from the Major Economic Crimes Bureau attended. Kasowitz did not introduce any new arguments or facts during his session. He simply repeated the arguments that the other defense lawyers had been making for months.
Ultimately, Vance overruled his own prosecutors. Three months after the meeting, he told them to drop the case. Kasowitz subsequently boasted to colleagues about representing the Trump children, according to two people. He said that the case was really dangerous, one person said, and that it was amazing I got them off. (Kasowitz denied making such a statement.)
https://www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud
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Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud (Original Post)
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Oct 2017
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(15,543 posts)1. republican "family values" suck cesspool scum
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(8,998 posts)2. Seems really weird that this case was dropped. Really weird.