Manhattan’s district attorney has convened a special grand jury that will determine whether former President Donald Trump should be indicted for charges related to his business dealings, according to news reports.
The Washington Post, CBS News and ABC News reported that District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s investigation has moved to the grand jury stage after two years of investigation.
The grand jury was convened recently and will sit three days a week for six months.
The grand jury could indict Trump, other company executives or the business itself if prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges. The move indicates that Vance has reason to suspect criminal behavior by someone in the Trump Organization or Trump himself, experts say.
Vance’s investigation is looking at Trump’s business practices prior to his 2016 election and prosecutors have looked at whether his company manipulated the value of some of his real estate properties to defraud banks and insurance companies.
Tax fraud through the valuation of assets is another area of investigation, along with the compensation of top Trump Organization executives, the Post reported.
Witnesses who could appear before the grand jury have been contacted in recent weeks.
Vance began investigating the Trump Organization after congressional testimony in 2019 from Michael Cohen, who at one time was Trump’s personal attorney.
The grand jury is expected to hear several cases, not just the details of the Trump investigation. The panel’s term is reportedly longer than the usual New York state grand-jury assignment.
Trump, still barred from his social media accounts due to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, wrote on his blog Tuesday and called the grand jury “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in American history.”
“This is purely political, and an affront to the almost 75 million voters who supported me in the presidential election, and it’s being driven by highly partisan Democrat prosecutors,” he wrote.
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the nyc da = the reichstaad.
This is the first ime i’ve seen a grand jury paneled for SIX MONTHS….
Yeah, he was probably involved in some shady business deals with Russia. Did anybody go into shock over any of the phone calls? Are there any witnesses of witnesses who didn’t witness anything but can attest to his guilt?
You people want some scandal to make your job look important, why don’t you check out Joe Biden and Hunter Biden?
All they have to fear, is Trump himself. If they don’t keep stirring the poop it may crust over and THE PEOPLE can then walk on solid ground again and find their way out of the swamp.
I would say ” anyone who is free of the same, cast the first stone.” ……not too many, Right?
Leftist harassment, plain and simple.
They want to nail Trump so that he never will be able to run for office, but there are others who will come along, and they will have to keep doing this awful witch hunt over and over until we start rigging elections!
THIS IS purely spite.. DESIGND TO shank him over, so he can never again try and run for president..
Yep, let’s get the evil Trump. Trump is not one of the deep state hacks, so we have to make sure to persecute and prosecute him. We are the deep state! These deep state hacks / traitors should be sent to a concentration camp in North Korea!
The leftist trolls are ALL excited! They conveniently ignore the fact that Trump is the single
most “investigated” person in history, and those were done by some incredibly biased people.
Leftist hoaxes re Trump are numerous, including “Trump-Russia collusion”, the “good people on
both sides” yarn, Trump called the coronavirus itself a “hoax”, and who can forget not 1 but TWO
totally partisan impeachments based on horse manure.
AND NOT a damn one of those investigations, found any PROOF of his guilt…
Cyrus Vance is just another Democrat extremist who fears Donald Trump so much he will do anything to ensure that President Trump is never able to be president again. These Democrats have no problem destroying Donald Trump’s constitutional rights to launch their fishing expedition.
More than likely Cyrus Vance will be successful in indicting Donald Trump and other members of the Trump family. Grand juries normally only hear the prosecutor’s side of a case. The dirty-trick Democrats will stop at nothing to try to eliminate the possibility that President Trump will get a second term.
This is sad. Donald Trump was the best president in our lifetimes and the Democrats are trying to destroy him because they don’t want America to be great again.
And queue the next witch hunt in three, two, one…….
PITY we can’t treat all these leftist DA’s LIKE witches in the salem witch hunt days..
Cyrus Vance is just another New York political hack. America would be better off if we put a wall around that cesspool and just let them kill each other and starve to death.
I’d love to do the same to everyone of the top 30 most libtard ridden cesspool cities…
I smell a “ham sandwich” indictment orchestrated by the crooked, corrupt & conniving Dem politicians.
The Dem Party, Marxist zealots, Soros globalist toadies & their allies in media, tech & Corps have adopted the Islam / Hitler philosophy of forcing the world to submit to their domination &, if needed, just slaughter every man, woman & child who may object.
The only “big lie” is that any Dem politicians or their allies give a damn about anyone or anything except their own power & riches.
Dems know that – absent fraud, demagoguery, illegal aliens, corrupt judges, media propaganda & persecution & instigating widespread terror & voter intimidation via BLM, antifa & Marxist mobs in the streets – they could not win an election except a Most Likely to Betray America & Steal Billions $ From Taxpayers.
Yet another witch hunt trying one(?) more time to pin something, anything on Trump or to politically embarrass him. They are running frantically in fear of the return of Trump to the White House.