New York. A grand jury in New York has been installed by prosecutors to evaluate evidence and possibly bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his business dealings.
Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance Jr has been investigating Trump and his businesses for more than two years but, as first revealed by the Washington Post, the installation of a grand jury indicates that investigators have reached a stage where they have detected enough evidence for an upcoming criminal charge.
A parallel investigation into possible violations of civil laws by Trump and his entourage headed by the attorney general of the state of New York, Letitia James, is now also criminal, and even more, it seems that with it they have merged and / or there is cooperation between both criminal investigations. James assigns two attorneys from his office to work with Vance’s.
With this, experts have commented that Trump is now in greater legal check than ever before, and that it cannot be ruled out in the near future that the former president is before a court in the dock. No former president has been formally charged with a crime in the country’s history.
Trump, for his part, upon learning about the evolution of the case against him, issued a statement describing the installation of the grand jury as “a continuation of the largest witch hunt in the history of the United States.” He stressed that the maneuver is “purely political” and hinted that it is an attempt to derail his possible presidential candidacy in 2024. He insisted that “our country is broken, our elections manipulated, corrupt and stolen, our prosecutors politicized” and that he will continue to fight as always.
The focus of the investigations, according to leaks, the witnesses who are cooperating and from what is known about their beginnings, focus on the operations of Trump’s company, Trump Organization, even before he became president. In February, the investigation by Vance triumphed before the Supreme Court in his request to obtain eight years of financial documents from the company and the president.
Vance’s office also has the cooperation of former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, who was dumped by his boss and, in response, disowned by Cohen, including payment information to silence women about their sexual relationships with the businessman. among other things.
Vance also just hired Mark Pomerantz, a renowned former anti-mob prosecutor.
A grand jury is installed by prosecutors to examine evidence in complex cases, made up like juries in randomly convened citizen trials, but which only determine whether there is enough evidence to file formal charges – juries in court have that task. they decide whether the defendants are guilty or not – jurors in a court trial have that task. A great
jury works in secret, and it is only through leaks that in this case it became known about its existence. In this case, the grand jury will be in session for up to six months.
Meanwhile, prosecutors in Georgia continue to investigate Trump’s attempts to convince the Georgia secretary of state to reverse the results against him in the November presidential election.
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