Former Prosecutor in Trump Criminal Probe Pleads the 5th in Deposition Taken by GOPFormer Prosecutor in Trump Criminal Probe Pleads the 5th in Deposition Taken by GOP
By Nick Arama | 7:00 PM on May 12, 2023
We previously reported about the fight between the House Judiciary Committee and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who was trying to prevent the GOP from deposing Mark Pomerantz. Now there’s some news about what happened in the deposition of Pomerantz that took place on Friday.
To recap, Pomerantz had previously been hired by the former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance in February 2021, specifically to investigate the financial dealings of Donald Trump. He had been a former federal prosecutor. He left the office in February 2022 after Bragg — who became the DA — refused to proceed any further with any action against Trump. It looked like the case wasn’t going anywhere. Pomerantz even wrote a book about it.
But then Trump declared for president in November 2022, and the indictment against Trump came down at the beginning of April.
That smelled to high heaven and raised a lot of questions about why Bragg now wanted to pursue the case—when he didn’t appear to think it was worth pursuing previously.
So, the GOP wanted to depose Pomerantz to get to the nature of why Bragg was telling Pomerantz he wasn’t going to pursue the case and any political motivation by Bragg in pursuing it now.
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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/05/12/gop-deposes-mark-pomerantz-on-trump-case-his-response-tells-you-how-much-he-didnt-want-to-talk-n745019
