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Calista241

(5,584 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 07:10 PM Jan 2020

Survivors Demand Manhattan DA 'Resign Immediately' Over Lenient Treatment of Wealthy Sexual Predator

Source: Law & Crime

Sexual assault survivors in New York City are demanding the immediate resignation of Manhattan District Cyrus Vance Jr. over his long and documented history of leniency toward elite and wealthy sex criminals.

According to Politico’s local desk, several such survivors made their case for Vance’s swift departure at City Hall on Thursday, highlighting a recent sweetheart deal gifted to Columbia University gynecologist Dr. Robert Hadden.

The disgraced OB/GYN is accused of sexually assaulting no less than 19 of his former patients—including Evelyn Yang, wife of 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.

“Most women don’t know what you’re supposed to get when you’re pregnant,” Yang recently said in an interview—adding that she was initially unsure about what happened and that she only decided to open up about Hadden after other survivors came forward.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/the-great-threshing/survivors-demand-manhattan-da-resign-immediately-over-lenient-treatment-of-wealthy-sexual-predators/

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Survivors Demand Manhattan DA 'Resign Immediately' Over Lenient Treatment of Wealthy Sexual Predator (Original Post) Calista241 Jan 2020 OP
Has not the Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #1
Yes. He accepted $50K or something for his campaign fund(?) from Trump's lawyer to not sue Karadeniz Jan 2020 #2
Did not Kushner kick in Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #4
Didn't NY-DA C. Vance let trDump and his kids off the hook when they repeatedly... magicarpet Jan 2020 #3
WTF-isn't that pig elected? I hope the shitty dr gets sued. 58Sunliner Jan 2020 #5
One would have hope that the state of NY would do something about all the grift not_the_one Jan 2020 #6
He is an elected Democratic Party member. LiberalArkie Jan 2020 #7

Karadeniz

(22,267 posts)
2. Yes. He accepted $50K or something for his campaign fund(?) from Trump's lawyer to not sue
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 07:57 PM
Jan 2020

Donnie and Ivanka after a case had been made against them for lying about condo occupancy rates = false advertising. They had the emails, then Vance canceled the lawsuit. I think when it came out, Vance returned the "donation."

magicarpet

(13,935 posts)
3. Didn't NY-DA C. Vance let trDump and his kids off the hook when they repeatedly...
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 07:59 PM
Jan 2020

... committed fraud in selling NY condos to prospective buyers ?

Didn't trDump Atty. Kasowitz offer Vance a substantial political donation if he dropped the charges and looked the other way ?

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In one e-mail, according to four people who have seen it, the Trumps discussed how to coördinate false information they had given to prospective buyers. In another, according to a person who read the e-mails, they worried that a reporter might be on to them. In yet another, Donald, Jr., spoke reassuringly to a broker who was concerned about the false statements, saying that nobody would ever find out, because only people on the e-mail chain or in the Trump Organization knew about the deception, according to a person who saw the e-mail. There was “no doubt” that the Trump children “approved, knew of, agreed to, and intentionally inflated the numbers to make more sales,” one person who saw the e-mails told us. “They knew it was wrong.

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But, in 2012, Kasowitz donated twenty-five thousand dollars to the re-election campaign of the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr., making Kasowitz one of Vance’s largest donors. Kasowitz decided to bypass the lower-level prosecutors and went directly to Vance to ask that the investigation be dropped.

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Much more at link,....

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-ivanka-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-avoided-a-criminal-indictment

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
6. One would have hope that the state of NY would do something about all the grift
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 09:30 PM
Jan 2020

but they have had decades to do so, and haven't.

It is the turd's MO, and he has gotten away with it for so long he feels entitled to it.

I am no longer putting much hope in NY "taking care of the situation". Talk about a day late and a dollar short........

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