According to The New York Times, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) is seriously looking at filing criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
Bragg is investigating Trump's $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. Daniels claimed to have slept with the future president.
New York County's previous district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., investigated the payment to Daniels years ago. Many believed the Trump campaign had knowingly violated campaign finance laws by paying off Daniels. Vance's investigation eventually shifted its focus to Trump's business practices.
Despite that, Bragg and his deputies are hopeful a new investigation could bare fruit, especially if they pressure former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to cooperate.
The New York Times reports:
The idea of building a case around the hush money had resurfaced with such regularity in recent years that prosecutors came to refer to it as the “zombie theory,” an idea that just wouldn't die, one of the people said.
Under Mr. Bragg's predecessor, the district attorney's office rejected the idea of focusing a case solely on the hush money, concluding, with the help of outside legal experts, that it would hinge on a largely untested and therefore risky legal theory. And if Mr. Bragg were to charge Mr. Trump without uncovering any new evidence or relying on a more conventional theory, he would risk having a judge or appellate court throw out the case.
To help build the hush-money case, prosecutors are revisiting another strategy that has yet to work: pressuring a top Trump lieutenant, Allen H. Weisselberg, to cooperate.
While Mr. Weisselberg has already pleaded guilty to unrelated tax charges and testified last week against Mr. Trump's company at its trial for the same tax crimes, he has not turned on Mr. Trump. To ramp up the pressure, the prosecutors are considering a new round of charges against Mr. Weisselberg in hopes of securing his cooperation against the former president, the people said. Those potential charges concern insurance fraud and are unrelated to the hush money.
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Democrats are the most ignorant fools in the world.
Insanity: doing the same ting over and over and expecting a different result.
Old news, wont work & what goes around comes around
The democrats had better be careful. This is a very slippery slope considering all of Hunter’s and “The Big Guy’s” payoffs from the communists and the PROOF (Eye witnesses testimony, text and emails messages, etc.) that’s out there!!!