Our Man On Their Side

BREAKING: Jordan issuing a subpoena to Pomerantz, a former Manhattan prosecutor, is only going to lead to his testimony that Trump is guilty of -- and should be charged with -- more crimes!
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— Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) April 6, 2023

Gym Jordan dare not subpoena DA Alvin Bragg.  He knows that.  So he does what he thinks is the next best thing, and subpoenas a former employee of the DA's office.  Checkmate, DA Bragg!

Except Gym Jordan doesn't know how to play chess.

If Pomerantz so much as ignores the subpoena, the subsequent court efforts to enforce it might well go into the start of the next Congress, nullifying the subpoeana by default. That would almost be a pity:

"The Enterprise Corruption Statute targeted just this kind of behavior using a pattern of criminal activity to increase an entity's economic power enabling it to inflict greater social harm," [Pomerantz'] book says

"New York State’s version of the federal racketeering statute, known as enterprise corruption, 'was an ideal vehicle for prosecuting Donald Trump and the Trump Organization," The New York Times cites Pomerantz's writings. "Former D.A. Cy Vance considered the idea 'bold' but others were unconvinced. Vance then planned to leave office and wanted to make a final decision of whether to prosecute Trump before leaving."

There's also a detail that Pomerantz provided in his book about the former daughter-in-law of Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg.

"One of the things Jennifer Weisselberg said that led us to eventually to an indictment of Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization was that she not only gotten a free apartment as a wedding gift for her and her husband, his son, Barry. But she revealed that Weisselberg himself had been living in an apartment rent-free," said Pomerantz.

That was when they discovered it wasn't just the apartment it was cars, free cable, tuition for his grandchildren, utilities and garage fees.

"What ultimately super-charged that investigation was the discovery of accounting records," which he said took a very long legal battle with the Trump Org. "We finally got the accounting records and discovered ultimately that although Weisselberg got the free apartment, the cars and so on, that hadn't been reported on his taxes, but it had been tracked internally as compensation. But it wasn't reported to the IRS."

 These are among the reasons Pomerantz resigned from the Manhattan DA's office and wrote his book.  Now Gym Jordan wants to put him in front of a Congressional committee so he can testify to all of this, and more.

Gym Jordan is our man on their side.  Or he's as dumb as a box of rocks.  Or both; it could be both.