“The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did.”
The long-running case had been gaining momentum before Bragg’s arrival, with Vance convening a special grand jury last November. Vance seemed to be ready to indict Trump before he left office, but when Bragg took over he clashed with prosecutors over whether they could prove Trump knowingly inflated the value of his company’s assets.
Pomeranz laid all of this out in his resignation letter, writing that Vance “concluded that the facts warranted prosecution, and he directed the team to present evidence to a grand jury and to seek an indictment of Mr. Trump and other defendants as soon as reasonably possible.” Vance’s office Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, as well as the company itself, with a bevy of financial crimes, including federal tax fraud, falsifying business records, grand larceny, and scheme conspiracy.now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” Pomeranz wrote. “I therefore cannot continue in my current position.”
Pomeranz may have been convinced the office had enough evidence to nail Trump, but Bragg’s concern about proving the former president had first-hand knowledge of fraud is a legitimate one.
Pomeranz, a veteran prosecutor who came out of retirement to work on the case against Trump, saw things a little differently. “I have worked too hard as a lawyer, and for too long, now to become a passive participant in what I believe to be a grave failure of justice,” he wrote.
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