Is Cy Vance Mueller All Over Again?

News that the Manhattan DA convened a Grand Jury for possible charges against Trump world recalls the hopes we held for what turned out to be Robert Mueller’s failure to deliver. I’m not celebrating until or if charges are filed.

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Author: craigcrawford

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25 thoughts on “Is Cy Vance Mueller All Over Again?”

  1. well, there’s still letitia james, the NY ag

    and the georgia fulton cty DA investigating attempt to influence vote

    as well as the feds in the wings and garland’s DOJ sure ain’t barr’s DOJ 

  3. silver linings seen in excerpt from may 12 article

    Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump? | The New Yorker

    Several knowledgeable sources told me that, in the past two months, the tone and the pace of Vance’s grand-jury probe have picked up dramatically. A person who has been extensively involved in the investigation said, “It’s night and day.” Another source, who complained that things had seemed to stall while Vance waited for Trump to leave the White House, and then waited for his tax records, said, of the D.A.’s office, “They mean business now.” Earlier, this source had felt that Vance’s team seemed slow to talk to some prospective witnesses. But recently, the person said, prosecutors’ questions have become “very pointed—they’re sharpshooting now, laser-beaming.” The source added, “It hit me—they’re closer.”
    The change came soon after the D.A.’s office made the unusual decision to hire a new special assistant from outside its ranks—Mark Pomerantz, a prominent former federal prosecutor. Pomerantz was brought on, one well-informed source admits, partly “to scare the shit out of people.” The press has characterized Pomerantz, who formerly headed the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, as a specialist in prosecuting organized crime, largely because he supervised the team that, in 1999, obtained a conviction of the son of John Gotti, the don of the Gambino crime family. In fact, it was not a major case. Pomerantz’s deeper value, say those who know him, is that he has spent the past two decades at the eminent firm Paul, Weiss, artfully representing rich and powerful white-collar criminal defendants. This experience makes him capable not just of bringing a smart case but also of anticipating holes through which a wily target might escape. “He’s a brilliant lawyer,” Roberta Kaplan, a litigator who has worked with Pomerantz, said. “He knows when to push and when not to.” Anne Milgram, a former attorney general of New Jersey, who previously worked in the Manhattan D.A.’s office, under Morgenthau, said that Pomerantz “likely has greater stature than any of the candidates for D.A. right now.” She believes his presence will insure that the Trump case is in steady hands when Vance’s successor takes office. Given Trump’s talk of a witch hunt, Milgram noted, the fact that Pomerantz comes from outside the D.A.’s office helps take the case “out of politics.”
    Vance also recently hired a top forensic-accounting firm, F.T.I., that is capable of crunching vast amounts of financial data. Taken together, George Conway told me, the hirings “are signs that the D.A.’s office is approaching this investigation very seriously—they clearly think they have something, and they’re trying to hone it and move it to a jury in New York.”
    Milgram agrees: “In my experience, when you drill a hole, you wouldn’t often go for eighteen months unless there’s some evidence leading to a crime.” Bharara told me, “All the signals indicate that there’s a belief on the part of that office that there’s a good chance of a charge.” But, he warned, “no one should be under the illusion that this is easy or a slam-dunk case.”

  7. While watching Putin rehabilitate Stalin and the Russian people get that old time nostalgia for a killer dictator I sometimes wonder what a country like the U.S.A. would be like if we had a dictator wannbe who was kicked out of office and died.  There are about seventy million white supremacists wanting an dictatorship to lead them in their somewhat deluded alternate universe.
     
    The question comes out as what will those people do if their criminal, phony, grifter, misogynist, white supremacist croaks.  If the former guy goes room temperature will they wear mourning black?  Will they riot in the streets?  I will state that I am sure they will create millions of nutso conspiracy stories, no theories as that is scientific.
     
    What if he strokes out?  Or does a President Wilson?  Maybe a Fred Sandford “Oh, this is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth?! I’m coming to join you, honey!“, but actually does meet Liz? 
     
    Will the cult members believe his light bulb blew out?

  8. BBronc,  or what if he flies the coop, takes a powder and holes up somewhere to avoid extradition?  will they riot or will they move on to a new cult leader (cruise with cruz?)

  10. also last night courtesy of rachel

    Rachel Maddow rounds up the criminal and civil investigations into Donald Trump that continue to develop as Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance engages a special grand jury in his probe of the Trump Organization, including how Attorney General Merrick Garland will eventually deal with questions about federal obstruction of justice charges for Trump.

  11. patd – along the same line of thinking, not his he is too stupid, but a s. miller move, he disappears the rumour spreads that he is dead.  Then three, or more, days later he shows up again.  Some of the cult thinks he is god, or something like that, so doing a magic reappearance would fit the grift. 
     
    But, with his lifestyle it is more likely he will be outfitted for the pine suit sooner rather than later. 

  13. Craig…  I hear you.  I too would be massively disappointed if only those around Trump are prosecuted… but Trump is not.
     
    But in the meantime…  if his legal woes keep the big donors from giving him money for another presidential bid in 2024…   that’ll work for me.

  15. Patd, thanks for posting that cartoon. I tried yesterday and it wouldn’t post. 

  16. I can’t see indictments only for those around him if any of them are based on tax returns, loan applications, etc. for him, his businesses or foundation. He likely signed the tax returns, and if Mazars did they will drag him and Weisselberg in. Weisselberg will play innocent – approved or directed by Dumbass for every action he took. 
    And convening a grand jury is a big deal. I don’t believe for a second that Vance convened the grand jury to try and indict Dumbass Jr., his stupid brother, their  sister and Weisselberg.

  17. There is going to be a whole lot of finger pointing going on.  A circle of  wasn’t me it was Melanoma

  18. Another slaughter, this time in California.  States should start a stream of gun control laws, including banning the weapons like the M-16/M-4/AK-47 and machine pistols.  Fight all of them to the Supreme Court.  Keep them going just like the anti-woman/anti-abortion, anti-transgender, bills are constantly going to the Supremes. 

  19. politico:

    Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled an afternoon event in Los Angeles County where he had planned to tout new strategies to sway the vaccine-hesitant, instead appearing at the scene.

    “What the hell is going on in the United States of America?” he asked. “What the hell is wrong with us? When are we going to come to grips with this?”

  20. ‘Enough’: Biden renews calls for gun control bill after San Jose rail yard shooting (nbcnews.com)

    President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass stricter gun control measures after the latest mass shooting at a Northern California rail yard Wednesday, in which eight people were killed.
    […]
    “We are still awaiting many of the details of this latest mass shooting, but there are some things we know for sure. There are at least eight families who will never be whole again,” Biden said in the statement. “There are children, parents, and spouses who are waiting to hear whether someone they love is ever going to come home. There are union brothers and sisters — good, honest, hardworking people — who are mourning their own.
    “Enough,” he said.

  22. BTW, that cartoon was from 2019.  shows you how nothing’s changed and how little we’ve done to rectify the problem. 

  23. The political grift will die. No more big donors.   

    I think there will be a lot of finger pointing, including from the guy with the tiny hands, should he be indicted. No chance of pardon this time, so everyone around him will be glad to cut a deal and flip.

    Will any county welcome them if they’re just well-known paupers? Do we have an extradition treaty with the Saudis?

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