Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance successfully subpoenaed Deutsche Bank, President Donald Trump’s top lender, last year in his criminal investigation into Trump’s business dealings, according to a new report.
The District Attorney’s office is too professional to use the dirt in those records as an electoral October surprise, but it bodes well for a rapid deployment of criminal charges on January 21, 2021.
I wouldn’t get too excited about this. It’s damn certain those records were cleaned up and the worst stuff not submitted. DB has had nearly 4 years to clean up those records. You’d have to be extremely naive to think they did not or that they fear any consequences for falsifying by omission.
As soon as it becomes part of a civil or criminal proceeding (rather than just a grand jury investigation) evidence is presumed to be public record, isn’t it? It can be sealed under extraordinary circumstances, but that seal can be opposed by either side, and challenged by third parties such as new organizations…
AG Letitia James has announced “A major national announcement tomorrow (today) at 11:30” Looking forward to it. Keeping my expectations in check, though.
Barr’s planning to mount simultaneous raids on the presser and the prosecution offices to confiscate any materials and arrest all of them for treason against the president.