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The Trump
Investigations Are Far From Over-INTELLIGENCER MAGAZINE JUNE 3, 2019
Just because
Mueller considers a certain batch of evidence not grounds for a prosecution on
his own motion doesn’t mean it might not create future legal and political
jeopardy for Trump. Other prosecutors pursuing other angles could pick up on
his findings. And to the extent the Justice Department doubts
a sitting president can be indicted at all, the report could provide
evidence that will sit, ticking like a time bomb, until he leaves office.
Michael
Cohen’s conviction for campaign finance violations is a potentially direct
threat given Cohen’s allegations about the president’s personal involvement
in hush payment to women with explosive charges of adultery against Trump that
surfaced in 2016.
But
separate federal investigations of Trump’s business dealings by the staff of
the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York are even more
potentially deadly, and they involve matters well beyond the scope of the
Mueller investigation, as Politico reported
last month:
Manhattan-based federal prosecutors can challenge Trump in ways Mueller can’t. They have jurisdiction over the president’s political operation and businesses — subjects that aren’t protected by executive privilege, a tool Trump is considering invoking to block portions of Mueller’s report. From a PR perspective, Trump has been unable to run the same playbook on SDNY that he’s used to erode conservatives’ faith in Mueller, the former George W. Bush-appointed FBI director. Legal circles are also buzzing over whether SDNY might buck DOJ guidance and seek to indict a sitting president.
The threat was highlighted when SDNY prosecutors ordered officials from Trump’s inaugural committee to hand over donor and financial records. It was the latest aggressive move from an office that has launched investigations into the president’s company, former lawyer and campaign finance practices. New York prosecutors have even implicated Trump in a crime.
Add it all up and the result is a spate of hard-to-stymie, legally perilous probes that appears on track to drag on well into Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. SDNY stands poised to carry on Mueller’s efforts whenever the special counsel’s office closes shop
Then there’s the possibility of state investigations into Trump’s business and charitable operations, as the Washington Post recently explained:
[T[he end of the federal investigation into the 2016 campaign clears the path for criminal charges in multiple states. That should worry the president and the people in his circle.
Early in his investigation, Mueller was reportedly sharing information he had gathered with the then-attorney general of New York, Eric Schneiderman, regarding Paul Manafort and his money-laundering activities. The evidence-sharing suggested the state of New York had a potential interest in looking at conduct that violated both state and federal law. More recently, the New York Attorney General sued the Trump Foundation, alleging a “shocking pattern of illegality” in its use and accounting of charitable funds (the foundation was shut down in December), and the New Jersey attorney general issued a subpoena to Trump’s campaign for the financial records of his inaugural fund. Although these are both civil actions, they could reveal violations of state criminal laws concerning tax and financial fraud by members of the Trump campaign or Trump Organization.
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