New York State attorney Mark F. Pomerantz, who had investigated Donald Trump said that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter, which was obtained by The New York Times.
Pomerantz, a prominent former federal prosecutor and white-collar defense lawyer, resigned on the same day as Carey R. Dunne, another senior prosecutor leading the inquiry, after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Mr. Trump,” The Times reported.
In his resignation letter, offers a personal account of his decision to resign and for the first time states explicitly his belief that the office could have convicted the former president.
“Mr. Bragg’s decision was contrary to the public interest,” he wrote, according to The Times.
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“The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did,” he wrote.
The Times found that “while Mr. Dunne and Mr. Pomerantz were confident that the office could demonstrate that the former president had intended to inflate the value of his golf clubs, hotels and office buildings, Mr. Bragg was not” and decided to stop pursuing charges against Trump.
However, The Times states, Bragg has said that his office continues to conduct the investigation and is “barred” from commenting on its status.
