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Alvin Braggadocious's Previous Guy says no balloons happened when he may have been POTUS* [1]

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Date: 2023-02-05  

The book’s narrative covers Mr. Pomerantz’s yearlong detachment to the district attorney’s office, where Mr. Vance lured him out of retirement to work exclusively on the Trump investigation. Mr. Pomerantz offered to work for free.

When he came on board, Mr. Pomerantz inherited what he saw as a “floundering” investigation. He soon drilled down on the hush money, exploring whether money laundering was involved.

He developed concerns, however, that such a case was too risky under New York law, leading him to focus on the potential racketeering case. New York State’s version of the federal racketeering statute, known as enterprise corruption, “was an ideal vehicle for prosecuting Donald Trump and the Trump Organization,” Mr. Pomerantz writes. Mr. Vance called the idea “bold” but other members of the team appeared unenthusiastic.

By Labor Day 2021, the racketeering theory became too ambitious to sustain. Mr. Vance planned to leave office at the end of the year, and wanted to make a decision about whether to charge Mr. Trump before he stepped down as district attorney.

As the investigators narrowed the focus to whether Mr. Trump inflated the value of his hotels, golf clubs and office buildings, Mr. Pomerantz relied on the New York attorney general’s office for help.

Mr. Pomerantz explains that the attorney general, Letitia James, and her investigators, had been “way ahead of” the district attorney’s office and that he became a “raving lunatic” about getting the two agencies to work together.

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