The U.S. attorney’s office said it was still investigating the Trump Organization, pursuing additional targets. (A spokesperson for the SDNY declined to comment.) Vance agreed to put his investigation on hold.
I hope Vance has learned his lesson and won’t let the Feds interfere with HIS investigations anymore.
When all this is said and done and Trump is lock away somewhere, scholars are going to have to come up with time delineations, B.T.=before Trump, A.T.=after Trump, BAH=before Access Hollywood, and so forth.
If we have to live through the most immoral, corrupt administration in history at least they’re also the least competent. Otherwise we’d already be in re-education camps by now.
The DOJ pleadings were co-signed by the SDNY. Privately, SDNY representatives, wary of appearing to do Trump’s bidding, insisted that their office’s role was limited, likening it to merely serving as local counsel.
Sorry if I’m less optimistic than most commenters. Looks like DOJ and SDNY got together to successfully catch and kill this, Weisselberg has a decent double jeopardy defense or at least lots of evidence will have to be excluded because of the federal immunity (remember Ollie North?) and the statute of limitations is running out as planned. Seems like Barr by night cleans all the messes that Trump makes by day.